That is a very common occurance in some receivers and pre-amps. I am not sure if they didn't use an appropriate frequency level for the lfe test tone or what but my SVS doesn't respond much to the internal test tone either. It doesn't respond to the old Onkyo either.
Like SH said adjusting using Avia or similar is all you need to do!
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