JRA, I don't believe the higher bass frequencies are hiding anything. My Adcom 5400 has a bass hump and you could still tell low end. As I say, the CJ sounds nicely balanced. I don't miss anything while I'm listening but when going to something like my Krell you really hear those lower registers on discs that have it. The CJ sound doesn't hit you as being rolled off. But in comparison to the Krell on same source material you can then tell there's more extreme lower frequency information.