[RKDinOKC]

Well, I don't have a sub-woofer, but don't need it as my left and right surround speakers each have 10in drivers that can pump out the base.

The speakers were made to handle the full spectrum and force of the lower frequencies before sub woofers came out. They are dbx 150s. They are weird shaped and designed to pump the same volume no matter where in the room you are standing. You can put stereo out to them, sit 1 ft in front of a speaker and still get a stereo image with the center content coming from inbetween the two speakers. For a long time I had a Pioneer Receiver that had a setting for no center channel and you couldn't tell there wasn't a center speaker.

My rear speakers are Boston Acoustics rear surround speakers that hang from the ceiling and bounce the sound down the walls. The Pioneer speaker setup thing classified them as large speakers because they produce the lows of a sub woofer. Again I got them before their was such a thing as a sub woofer. You have to get right under one to mess up the image and hear that speaker over the others. In fact, most times, I have to really listen to tell if it is working.

My current surround decoder and amp is a Sony Reciever. It actually does better than the Pioneer Elite I had. If I could have found just a surround decoder with amps to drive speakers instead of a reciever I would have gotten it instead. The only controls used on the receiver is on/off and volume. The TV and the Receiver are both Sony so they talk to each other and share the same remote.