Sraber

I forgot to tell you one aspect of not using redirected bass circuitry is that internal processor will cut bass from the channel you set it to “small” and sent them to subwoofer, resulting a mono bass or “loss of bass”. That kind of bass usually sounds not very smooth compared to stereo full range bass. Since bass sounds have certain amount of directionality it is best not to cut them, if possible. Even if you are using small drivers (6.5 inch) you can still sent them full range signal (Large). Most of small drivers will start to roll off when they reached their low frequency limit; so don’t worry about damaging speakers.

You should always bi or tri amplified your front LCR channel with larger heavy duty drivers and an active crossover (the best and cleanest method, if allowed) along with full range signal to archive higher impact. Passive bi-amping with another powered large driver is more cost effective and will also improve the sound quality, but you may need some additional signal processing and some fine tuning. The redirected bass circuitry is more flexible, but at the expense of sound quality.