Anybody Felt Lower-End ARC preamps Bass-Shy?

My father owns the LS16 and he has incredible bass with Vandersteen Wood Quatro speakers, maybe your speakers or room or even placement could be an issue. I am not saying for sure the LS16 is not the problem or that any other equipment and so forth are your issue, simply the LS16 performs great in my experience.

Thanks for the reply Chadnliz. I am quite sure it's not the speakers since I am running them in high-pass configuration and the bass is entirely handled by the subwoofer. The reason I was suspecting the LS-16 was when I stumbled upon another user here who also felt that the LS-16's bass does not go too deep. Maybe I'm over-reacting although I might be getting a more-than-enough bass response.

I've had the LS-15 and LS-16mkII and currently have
LS-25mkII. There was a considerable difference in bass response from LS-16mkII and the 25mkII however the LS-16 had very good bass response.
There are other things that affect bass response such as room size,type of cables used, speaker brand and type etc..
System senergy is also important.