It sounds like it's doing dynamic base roll off as the volume goes up. The other reason somebody might not want to have base that strong at high volumes is it takes a very powerful amp to deliver high volume base. And by the way, this is why if you have an individual component set up and you have a receiver that puts out however many watts per channel, the subwoofer will plug into the wall because it has its own amplifier.

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