I personally would like to believe, that there's absolutely no difference between the 5.1 analog inputs, and the stereo/2 channel inputs in bypass mode in terms of sound quality. Just the fact that the 2 channel inputs (with the speakers set as small) *also* has the double bass problem leads me to believe that at least *some* of the analog signal path is shared between those two options.
I would personally also expect there to be no difference in sound quality between stereo bypass and the 5.1 input. However, I was under the impression that the double bass in the 5.1 mode was unrelated to the double bass in stereo bypass -- on the 5.1 it was because the low-pass crossover to the sub is always active (even when the bass management switch is off, which bypasses the high-pass filter to the other speakers), while on the stereo bypass it was because the stereo analog signal was sent to two places (the original signal went through the volume control and out the pre-amp outs, while it was also sent to the digital processing to have the bass management applied, causing the sub to get info if the speakers were set to "small").
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