If you wonder why all your audio clips sound like they have no attack or sound muffled, here is a solution, and its not layering or compressing.
On your kick track(or any track), click one the drop down menu for the device chooser and go to "fades", and on the desired clip, drag back the fade and BOOM! there you go! thats why when you compared your samples to other daws,it did not cancel phase, and you got pissed because you though ableton was a low quality water downed copy cubase XD.
Now to address this globally, go to your prefrences under the options drop down tab, then go to
Record
Warp Tab
Launch
Then in the "Warp/Fades" disable the "create fades on clip edges".