It's me again I run home for lunch as an excuse to quickly try the Tone Defeat trick. Well, it's definetely a bug in the software and there is a noticeable difference between Stereo and Bypass when it's on or off.

There are some other news. I really did not have enough time to try everything yesterday evening, but I did something. When I talked to Steve he told me how to avoid the bass bug. I'm not sure if it's the only way, but that's what did it for me - reset the processor (with the unit in standby, hold together Set and Menu buttons on the front of the unit, it will erase everything including you input assignments). Then set the x-overs, distances, levels normally, but leave the fronts to Small and do not touch the Subwoofer setting in the Speaker Size menu. So I did this yesterday night but didn't have time to really try it (also was so enjoying the Cary that it kind of Carried me away for a while

Anyway, when I quickly tried the now reset and tunedefeated 990 and the Cary during lunch time, I got somehow surprised that I did not hear that much of a difference anymore, at least in the bass department. There is some, but it can be easily contributed to variations in subwoofer calibration levels. Granted I had time to listen only to Genesis Selling England..., Frith of Fith track (good for bass but not for harshness testing) so I never concentrated on the harshness. I'll do that part of testing tonight with some female vocals. So - if somebody is still concerned about bass, reset the darn thing, don't touch the sub setting, and see if you hear the difference.