The bass is the place...

Might be useful to define what I consider to be accurate bass. That is the sound of a bass drum or stand up bass that can be heard in the listeners room with the ability to fool the listener into believing that the ’real un-amplified’ instrument is palatably in the room.
At a HiFi show I attended last year, i had a ’conversation’ with a well known speaker designer ( whose speakers are highly colored, IME) about the subject of bass reproduction. The designer was telling all in his room that his speakers were able to plumb the depths in the bass and with absolute accuracy and that this system was producing amazing bass in this room. To my ears, this was absolutely not the case. I felt his speakers were colored and diffuse in the very bottom end and that they were not that far reaching in the bass either. ( the speakers in question were quite pricey). This conversation didn’t sit well with the designer, as he knew that he was asking a lot of money for a product that had to impress in its all-around SQ for its price point. Leaving bass production/reach and accuracy behind would not let him delineate his product from numerous other speakers that were priced considerably less.