Hello, I just received the 1050 this week. I've done alot of reading about this receiver for the last couple of months and decided to go with it. What a nice sturdy built piece. However I have a few questions that I hope can be rectified, otherwise it's down hill for the 1050. I just hooked this up tonight and the previous tuner I was using was an old Sony STR-AV320. This is just a 2 x 50 amp only with no Dobly Surround nothing. I've been using that to listen to my new Polk Audio RT 55i's. For those of you not familiar with this model, it has two 6 1/2" woofers and a tweeter. The Sony pushed these ( what I thought) nice and plenty of bass. Tonight I hook the 1050 up to it and now I have less bass than the cheapo Sony receiver I purchased 11 years ago. Before any one sends me suggestions, here is what I did so far.

There is currently 16 gauge going to each speaker. I've double checked the phasing of the speakers and that is fine. I am purposely running it in Stereo mode since I've only got two speakers hooked up to it at the moment. I put these RT 55i's on Large and Small. I understand the difference between the two, but neither provides the bass that I had. Also, on the crossover, I've got it set at 100hz. Tried 60hz too, but nothing really different which is expected. For the Treble and bass, I've got them both at 6+ db. Outlaw mentions that normal listening levels is 45 or so on the volume setting which I agree with. But at that level , I had alot more bass on the old wimpy Sony than I do on this unit. Hope I'm missing something here. I don't want to have to turn up the thing to like 70 just to get the speakers to start moving with bass. I don't want to give everyone the impression I'm a bass fanatic here, but just notice a considerable loss from the older receiver that is less per channel. Speaker location has not changed either since the last receiver so that should be fine.


Thanks in advance for any replies,


Jeff