Thanks for your reply.. I have my mains set as small, otherwise I would get nothing from the SUB channel... but I respectfully disagree with your comment about there not being a lot of music out there with signal below 60hz... just about all of my music has my sub pumping out bass like crazy, and not just the electronic music. Heart, ELO, Loverboy, and other old rock has bass below 60hz.

Anyways, that issue aside, I thought it was odd that I had to boost the SUB channel to +8 to get a good signal out of it. I am using a y-splitter on the LFE cable because it's a trick to increase the signal strength with some subs. Rather than plugging into the single LFE rca input you use a splitter and connect both right and left inputs.. it really worked well for my Velodyne impact-10 so I tried it on this sub when I had the weak signal and it did help quite a bit.

So it's working and it does sound good so I think I am just going to set this issue to rest.. I did see one other thread about a 950 with weak LFE output from like 2003... so I am not the only person to notice this.. maybe something unique to a couple of units? who knows..

Thanks again for your reply though, I wasn't sure if I would get one.

EDIT: I want to note that I ran my polk PSW505 on the 950 for a long while and before I had it on two different Pioneer receivers, both of which I played a lot of stereo only music from with the sub active and I had the gain at like -2 (0 was a little too bassy)... so it's not the sub for sure. I also didn't have to use the y-cable trick on those setups.

EDIT: if anyone wants to hear good LFE from a song, pick up Lorde - Pure Heroin and listen to the track 'Royals'. I am thinking 25hz on that one.. it gets under your feet and shakes our whole house..