If your receiver has the speakers set to "small" (with a crossover of 80Hz) and then you turn off the power on your sub, you will get no bass.

The receiver is routing the bass to your sub, yet you turned it off.

(Unless I'm misunderstanding and what you meant to say is that you chose a "no sub" option in your receiver's menu).

If you want to listen to your 22s without a sub, you need to choose "large" and "no sub" in your receiver's menus.

::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::