This is true . You feel like an outsider for a while . Everyone else has a shared history that it ' ll take you a while to pick up . I ' m 2 years into my current job after 6 in my previous one . I often take for granted how comfortable I am now and how much I feel like I belong . <| sep |> Yes , you will still get the LFE channel at the sub , but we ' re also talking about receiving nonLFE signals . The point is that the lack of the LFE channel highlights that bass management is turned off when it should be turned on . Some AVRs will allow you to designate the fronts as large and other speakers as small . If you don ' t have a sub , this is still technically bass management , as the frequencies below the crossover get redirected to the large fronts . It ' s still important to point out that most speakers are not meant to handle the full frequency range , even if the speaker is physically large . From what I ' ve read , you need a 12 woofer on the speaker to effectively run the full range , but your sub is still probably far more efficient than your fronts at producing the lower frequencies . And I definitely don ' t recommend running fronts as large and then still utilizing bass management . Some AVRs allow this , but if you ' re redirecting frequencies to the subwoofer , you don ' t also need them coming out of your speakers .