Originally Posted By: JohnK
the cause was that you were in direct mode, which doesn't allow any processing to send low bass from the mains to the sub, and since there's no LFE on CDS, of course, the sub gets nothing and the M80s were handling all the bass alone. So obviously don't use direct mode, but continue to use the basic small and LFE settings.


No. The Denon has a separate setting for stereo/direct to allow the AVR processing to affect these modes.

Pure is a different story.

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