Lomb, I just QUICKLY went back and skimmed your review and the rest of the thread, and I could find no mention of this so I thought I'd bring it up.

Forgive me if I'm belaboring the obvious, but if you were running these speakers without any sub, did you ensure that they were set to "large" in your receiver's speaker menu? I assume that you did, but since I found no mention of it, I just thought I'd ask. No insult intended. Just trying to cover all the bases.

Jack

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