I am confused with what is lost with regard to the 950 and Bass. Could someone tell me what I am missing with my setup?

I am running the 950 in fairly standard mode using the Bass management built into it. My front and rear speakers are set to large with the bottom end set to 40Hz in the 950. I have two 15" subs driven by the 950 through a Samson S1000 amp. The input is a Sony DVP-875P which plays both CD and DVD and I have both digital (coax) and analog connections to the 950 (PSC). I am usually listening to either DVD movies in 5.1 or I will listen to CD's in either stereo or 5 channel stereo.

I have read many of the articles about bass and double bass in this forum and I am still unsure how it affects my setup. I guess I am a little slow. :-)

My reason for asking is that my four ESS speakers each with the capability of reproducing sound down to fairly low levels has a tendency to overpower the twin 15" subs with 500 watts going to each and I am trying to figure out if it is the setup or something else.

I have calibrated the system to 72db and the subs run about a +3 db. The room is small for so many speakers, but the drowning out of the subs takes place at everything but really low LFE.

Let me know if you have any suggestions/answers.

Thanks


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