Wel, in the end, that's not really a problem, I think. Just rotate the knob untill you hear the center of the stereo image right in front of you, and that's it. As Tony said, maybe surfaces, material, shape and speaker location in your car interiors are such that you need to delay the speaker further from you. Weird, but I thnk in theory it is possible. One more reason to use this feature, I'd say...