'5.0' speaker system (no subwoofer) - LFE to front chann

Hello
I have an Audigy 2 ZS hooked up to a fi've speaker setup consisting of front pair, rear pair and centre but no sub - the front pair being capable of very low bass. I want to direct the LFE (i.e. the discrete '.' subwoofer channel) to the front pair so that I do not lose any audio info.
As I understand it, the bass redirection facility in Speaker Settings is 'one-way', i.e. it will take bass from the surround channels and direct it to the sub, but not the other way round, i.e. the LFE doesn't get directed to the front/surround channels.
Is there a way of getting LFE to my front/surround speakers? Failing that, does the 4.0 speaker setup option direct LFE through the front/surround channels?
Thanks
BumpenGrinder

I may be all wet, but I think I've heard it said that the LFE channel isn't considered a low bass channel, i.e. that not to say there's no bass in the other channels, but the low frequency effects channel is to add emphasis if there is a subwoofer. You may not be missing that much.
You could do this externally with a 2-channel mixer, splitting the LFE channel into 2 mixer inputs, to mix them individually with the front L/R channels.
It's possible one or more of the DVD software players out there have a setting for this if you configure them to do the decoding.
Are you sure your front speakers are designed for really low bass? LFE might not be that good for them or they might have a crossover that would mostly toss the signal.
-Dave
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