thanks for the reply, chesseroo,

Nah, the marantz is decommissioned now - i've listened to it with both the loudness on/off, and with it off, the sound is noticeably flatter. But the bass/oomph is still there.

Now the arcam's completely replaced my marantz - i plan on using the arcam as a preamp with a seperate poweramp later on, but for now, the arcam is standalone.

And yeah, the bass is just.. gone. the mid/high is ultra clear and amazingly clean, its just that there's no lows to supplement that.

well, i hope a subwoofer fixes it. i was going to go with an svs or hsu, but the axiom ep125 appeals to me for some reason. how are those?


Arcam Delta 290, Marantz 2220b (at parents now), Axiom M3ti, Axiom M22ti, Grado Labs SR80s