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Home Theater: Is Subwoofer a must?

I'm just setting up my first home theater system. I have a Proceed PAV, with Classe amplification. A CA-200 drives my Legacy Classic mains while a bridged CAV-75 does center and surrounds. The Legacy Classics have (2) 10 woofers in each speaker, crossover set at 120hz. When I play music, which is 90% of my listening the bass is plentiful and solid. I've noticed though, that when I watch movies the bass is a little lean. I checked my Proceed PAV and made sure the internal crossover was turned off. My question is this, when they make these recordings on dvd, vhs or whatever do they separate all the bass information for the subwoofer channel? Do they think nobody buys full range speakers anymore? Or do they just want to make you buy a subwoofer? I thought with the bass response of my Classics I wouldn't need one. Am I wrong? Thanks for your help.
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rugyboogie
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When I first started into home theater I was using watt puppies only. I lived with the two channel set up for about 18 months and truely enjoyed the movies this way.
I came into some money and I started to add the speakers first the center than the sub and then the surround. IMHO the .1 makes a huge difference in theater set up. The DTS setting when available is so impressive when watching movies that I would not want to be without it now.
Money well spent, get a good sub and have a blast.
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