I snuck the sub in under the wife’s nose, she thought that I was only getting towers and a few small surrounds like the HTIB’s she has seen and we have previously owned. She was not pleased when the huge boxes showed up!
Better to beg forgiveness than ask permission. So what’s it gonna cost ya to smooth it over?
Couple thing to try if you haven’t already.
Calibrate everything and listen for a while. If your use to boomy bass it’ might just be that you need to adjust to the cleaner nature of it.
If that doesn’t help pump up the volume on the sub.
Try corner loading the sub. Though this might cause boominess.
Set your M80s to large and use sub + mains feature play bass from all three sources.
Combine some of these.
But calibrate first to you have a good baseline to make changes from, and can judge what each change is doing.
