If the analog bass management is off, the LFE signal is still passed from your SACD player through the 950 to your amp. Nothing is lost at all.

What the bass management does is move information below 80Hz from the other channels and redirect it to the sub. The design of the six-channel analog input on the 950 has been the subject of a great deal of debate because the 950 *always* redirects information below 80Hz from the five full-range speakers to the sub/LFE channel (adding that information to the information already on the LFE channel), but it leaves that information in the full-range channels if the bass management switch is off. Hence the concerns many people have about "double bass." If the switch is on, the information that is redirected to the sub is removed from the main channels. That's why Scott referred to this arrangement preventing any possibility of double bass.

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[This message has been edited by gonk (edited September 24, 2002).]