Not sure how to ask this...

[aaronleong]

Call me ignorant, but while I was thinking about speaker placement and making the proper measurements (distance to listener, etc), I recall the feature in my Yamaha receiver that allows the user to specify the speaker distance to listener. So which technique is better? Purists might say the former, but what do you think? Should I just set the distances in the receiver to 0?

 

[jinjuku]

Run YPAO and then drill down into the setup and see what it set the distance as. If distance is correct, well then YPAO did it's job.

 

[aaronleong]

Mine is the RX-V365 with no YPAO.

I think it terms of distancing, using the receiver's built-in distancing should work fine, because it does its own compensating and delays. Angling still needs to be done manually, of course.

 

[mperfct]

I've heard that you can go back in and correct speaker distances, but leave the subwoofer settings alone. Something about phase and whatallhaveya.