Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions My findings on setting delay (distance) with subs.

Ok maybe I'm not understanding things correctly. I thought the way Audyssey worked was to measure the time it takes from the initial signal leaving the receiver to the time it hits the microphone and thereby compute the corresponding distance based on delay? That being the case it seemed like a pretty reasonable explanation that subs with DSP would look further away than they actually were due to the signal doing whatever it does as it gets amplified and emitted. It is then up to the receiver/Audyssey to adjust the timing of the various signals leaving the receiver so that they arrive at your ear at just the right time. Based on this perhaps faulty understanding it seems to me that arbitrarily changing the sub distance to more accurately match the physical distance will be screwing up the syncronization. Please educate me.

EDIT: I should add that nothing above should suggest that I disagree with the adage if it sounds good it is good.