Goldenear Triton One bass setting

Why would you have one speaker closer to the back wall than the other? Please explain this.

The left speaker is 8 inches closer to the back wall than the right.  It is so I can see the TV screen in the living room.  
I sent pictures of my speaker placement to Sandy Gross at GE and he said “perfect solution”. 

So the arrival time of the sound of one speaker is much greater than that of the other? I guess I'm not understanding how that works at all.

When I had the Tritons I thought the bass integrated very well although I was fiddling with the knob quite a bit depending on the type of music I was playing. 

If you think you can hear the arrival time of a speaker that is 8 inches closer to the wall than the other, then you must have the Holy Grail of ears.  You sound like someone I know that is OCD.   It’s okay if you don’t understand it, you aren’t listening to the system.