So I did some measurements to understand what the DSP does. Place an SPL meter 6 inches at front and rear at mid midrange drivers. Used inter station white noise as a signal source and set the front side SPL to 0dB.
Measuring the rear drivers I got
setting
2 Near -2dB
1 Near 0dB
Off +2dB
1 Far +3dB approx
2 Far +5dB
The front and rear amps are not matched.
Front is a Forte Model 3 202 WPC 8 ohms 275 at 4 ohms
Rear is a Bryston 3B pro 100 WPC 8 ohms 200 at 4 ohms
Note the Bryston seems to have better sensitivity and appears to be louder for the same input.

I can't tell if there is any change made in the Bass responses as I would expect for room boundary bass compensation.
Perhaps the old speaker placement scenario is expected to be used to tame rear wall bass extenuation.
I wish Axiom would explain how the DSP works but the company seems too busy absorbing Bryston to care.

Last edited by Farthings; 04/05/23 06:37 PM.