Originally Posted by jobseeker
I guess I'm in the minority here in that I have a 7.0 channel system with no sub. I have been wondering what happens to the bass from the LFE channel in my instance.

Normal policy would be to redistribute the LFE channel amongst all the full range speakers.

Of interest here is how Bass is summed both electrically and acoustically. 5 full range channels will combine common low frequencies at a power summation. This means that 2 channels will combine by 3 dB; 4 channels by 6 dB and 5 channels by 6.989 dB. When common bass frequencies are derived and summed to a subwoofer, the summation is electrical and thus two channels sum by 6 dB, 4 channels by 12 dB and 5 channels by 13.979 dB.

I suspect this might be part of what some of you are hearing between modes, even though Meridian take great care to ensure that in many of their modes this is somewhat compensated for.

Meridian Advocate