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Ok so I have a HTR-5850 Yamaha receiver and all 5.1 speakers where Athena including the subwoofer. Everything was great quality sound and room shaking bass. Then the amp in my subwoofer went out (AS-P6000). It was under warranty so got it fixed and then about 6 months later broke again and so no longer under warranty so I had to replace it. I also found out that when the amp in the bass speaker went out it also somehow missed up the LFE on my receiver. I don't know the details on it but basically all the new bass speakers I hooked it up to would make VERY little sound/bass at all. I took the receiver into Best Buy where I bought it and they sent it in to their warranty repair place. They called me and said they reset the receiver to factory default settings and they do not hear anything wrong with the receiver LFE out and claim it is working just fine. I asked them if they have some meter or somehow to check the signal its putting out or whatever and they just said they hooked up a bass speaker to the LFE and it works. So whatever I know most of the techs there don't know what they are doing and don't care (I use to work there so I know this first hand lol). Anywise I got the receiver back and ordered a Elemental Designs A5-350 with Amplifier LT/550. The Elemental Designs people say this thing should be great for me (the room is 2000 cubit feet). The receiver seems to be working fine with the new subwoofer, but it is not producing the same amount of bass my last subwoofer was, but is deffiently much better then before I sent in the receiver so maybe they did fix it. But again the ED subwoofer is just not making bass like my first subwoofer was.
FIRST QUESTION: Do you guys think there is an issue with my receiver or maybe this ED subwoofer is just not enough for me?
SECOND QUESTION: Also, when the bass does start being louder or deeper it sometimes "cutts off or turns off". I have to flip the power switch off and back on and then it works again. Why would this happen?
Thanks all for your continued help.
FIRST QUESTION: Do you guys think there is an issue with my receiver or maybe this ED subwoofer is just not enough for me?
SECOND QUESTION: Also, when the bass does start being louder or deeper it sometimes "cutts off or turns off". I have to flip the power switch off and back on and then it works again. Why would this happen?
Thanks all for your continued help.
