For acoustic, non=-electronic recording, it's a physics problem. If you look at low and high frequency vibrations on a graph, there's a much bigger difference in the amplitude of the low-frequency waves: they go further up, and further down. That means there's a big difference in sound pressure between the peaks and the valleys. The difference requires more energy to produce, than the energy needed to make what you would hear as an equivalently loud high pitch. When recording required someone to sing into a bell, which would focus the sound energy to move a diaphragm that would wiggle a needle and engrave some wax, there was a limit as to how much sound energy could be stored- above a certain sound energy level, it wasn't. Bass notes, requiring more energy, were stored less. And of course, when the process was reversed, there was a limit on the energy that a needle, wiggled by a groove in a wax cylinder, would send to the diaphragm of a record player as well.

This is also the reason that sound systems cars that really thump the bass need heavier wiring, have to handle more electrical current, than sound systems that don't have to have that thump.