I didn't experience any chuff on LOTR with my EP-175. My wife kept asking me, "Can you feel that?" because it actually felt like the couch was shaking at 12-14 feet away. I'm pretty confident in my sub calibration, and it is not running hot. This is one of those movies where I subtly eased into the volume as I wasn't sure how much my system could take. Everything worked out great, and the sound was incredible.

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