Bass leaves after amp warms up?

Either or both cables work well at any given time:
There is no pattern

When the electrician comes also confirm continuity with his volt meter red to red and black to black at both speaker wire ends .....
Also when you hook the AQs back up make sure the bass goes to the low speaker posts and tweeter goes to the high posts .
This will make sure your speakers are in proper phase.
You can also disconnect both speaker wires at the amp take a double a battery red to batteries plus black to neg and run it on both speaker wires if both speakers woofers are moving in the same direction all is good.
JohnnyR

Agree with Newbee on using an SPL meter and LF test tones to gather data.

Things to try:

-measurements with sound pressure level meter and test tones
-confirm the year and results of your last hearing test and those of anyone else who hears the same thing (just because your S.O. hears the same doesn't mean anything. They might be an ex-rock musician with years of 110 dB experience, for all we know) I believe you, but with your musician background this should be confirmed before the thread reaches a few hundred posts.
-power down the whole house (including tenant)using breakers except for the outlet for audio. If there are other items on other outlets running off the same circuit unplug them. Plug just your amp directly into one wall outlet and just your CD player into the same wall outlet. Retest. If still bad, try moving your amp, speakers and CD player to another circuit and repeat.

The OP isn't willing to try much.

SPL meter? Nope. He's a professional musician, won't try the SPL meter. Taking the cover off the amp? Nope, no tool. Unwilling to go to the store to buy a set of allen keys. Besides, he isn't good at taking the cover off, he has the dexterity to be a musician but he can't turn a screw.

(Hardware stores will have both US and metric sizes by the way -- really easy investment.)

Likes swapping speaker cables though.