Three possible problems with bass.
1. Room nodes mainly based on speaker location and room dimensions. There are zero nodes and big bass nodes and you need to place the listening seat and speaker location to minimize these affects.
2. Speaker bass design. Most speakers(without subs) start rolling off above 40 Hz. And many speakers have bass overhang, especially in the mid bass where the bass is sloppy. This is from speaker design. Some times it's even deliberate on the designer since heavy bass even when sloppy sells. I'll add, when designed properly closed boxes(very rare these days) are cleaner than ported boxes and this is inherent in the two topologies.
3. Fletcher/Munsen. Frequency response of our ears rolls off at bass and treble frequencies. If I recall bass is flat at 100dB(way too loud and dangerous to hearing) So even at normal loud levels the bass may be there but sounding reduced even when it's not due to the nature of the way our hearing works.