If you mess with the dB levels after Audyssey runs, your defeating the purpose of running Audyssey.
The relations of the speakers to each other stay the same though, which is why I asked the question. If your base is 75, if you subtract 8 through channel level but then add it back in by running the receiver 8 db higher, I don't see why it makes any difference than just having the channel level at 0 in the first place. It seems as if Audyssey figures out the speaker which needs the most level removed from it, and then adds level to the others. So in some cases like mine where one is 8 db too high (right surround), the fronts are still negative because they only need to be 5 db higher.
Like I said it I don't really care, just curious as to why it's done that way. What if the my receiver would only allow -6 db on any given channel? Would Audyssey then calibrate everything else 2 db higher?
I suppose this is why people much smarter than I develop these things.
