Dave, Audyssey generally does a good job of level matching the speakers. Still, I go back through the manual set up with my SPL meter and make minor adjustments if necessary. I just got my HT set up in my new place and didn't even bother with Audyssey on my Denon 3808 (I don't have the recent upgrade) and just used my SPL meter to level match.

Also, Audyssey was pretty accurate measuring distance. This time I just used a tape measure. I'll run the program eventually to see how far off my manual settings are.

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