I found myself in 50/50 of HT and music. I have been sticking with my present system for a while.

Lexicon DC2 prepro, Bryston 3B powers main Paradigm Studio 40. Rotel and Adcom amps drive other channels. I am sactified with the HT performance. For music, it is not that bad. But Lexicon processor uses A/D and D/A to process the analog signal from the CD player. I had compared it with a pure analog setup, which I introduced a Rotel pre-amp. I like the vivid analog sound better and it also has more details. But without the subwoofer, I found the bass is not as enough as the HT setup with Bass management. My 12" powered sub is not that good, but it does some work.

Now comes the question: how can I get good 2 channel music from the HT system with good bass.

I am thinking of changing Lexicon DC2 to another process(such as Proceed or Sunfire) with 2 channel pass through. But I wonder if there is bass management in that case...