Hi all,
Longtime lurker, first time poster. Thanks to the unnamed masses who convinced me to get the 950. I just got my 950 this weekend and am delighted with its performance. I don't want to incite any hissy fits , but I actually like the way the 5.1 bass management is implemented in the 950. I realize now how much I was missing while playing SACDs via my Denon 3801 (and Parasound 1205) without the subwoofer.
I have a mongrel assortment of speakers with Fried (an unfortunate name) R/4 mains, Dynaudio Audience C122 center, and Bohlender-Graebener Radia X3 rears and Hsu VTF-3 sub.
I've set the 5 speakers to small with a crossover of 80 Hz on the 950.
Since I didn't want to have to manually turn off the bass management of the 950 when playing SACDs and DVD-As, I set the Sony CD775 SACD player's primitive bass management to 5 large speakers and no subwoofer. My concern was that if I had an LFE output from the SACD I might get the dreaded double bass, especially since the Sony's crossover is fixed at a high 120 Hz. I have to say that I didn't hear much difference when I did have an LFE output set on the SACD player, but didn't really take too much time to really test this out.
Does this set up make sense?
Thanks.