Front speaker placement, trying wider placement.


Trying a wider stance for front speakers where they are placed twice as wide vs distance from chair to center speaker. Read somewhere this is better.
To me this seems to enlarge dispersion.   I like idea of nestling fronts into corners.  Speakers are in a 16 x 14 room where fronts are along wider wall.  
Speakers are b&w diamonds and have no trouble filling room.  Seems very good thus far.

jumia

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If the speakers are good enough a wider stance makes sense, and seems to be working better at this point.  
Sound fills the room more broadly, stereo twp channel sound has a nice projection from center. 
I think some are abit neurotic about toeing in and eqidistant speaker placement.  
Many like to place mains on each side of flat tv. Too me this seems to limit spread of sound throughout the room. And limits so called sweet spot to a one chair position. If u are are hermit this may work but many coexist with others and spreading the wealth seems more comfortable.

problem is mains are so damn heavy that its tough to move them around. At least b&w speakers have ‘wheels’. Also speaker cables can be too damn short. I got 12 footers.
Sweet spot size?  Interesting.

anyone ever measure it?  Would you share with a significant other if only 2 feet wide?

all about dispersion.  Need to get some twine and build a twine enclose sweet area.  Will there be a shareable space?  
Many seem to buy only one chair for listening area.  Are spouses welcome to a listening session?  
So b&w create lots of reverbs?  They do fill room with less of the narrow focus that other spkrs may have.  
Moving head one inch to change sq seems absurd.  Very poor speaker design if true.  Too little dispersion seems awful.