I have the Apogee Mini-grandes (Stages with attached subwoofers), and there is both a vertical and horizontal sweet spot. There is a severe venetian blind effect when you stand up even from 12 feet away, and the horizontal sweet spot is not quite 2 people wide, though not as severe as the vertical effect. Of course the subs are cone and not a victim of the sweet spot, but that is below 70 hz or so. The Divas are much larger, but I've only heard them at trade shows, and they have a much wider vertical and horizontal sweet spot in my auditions.
Larger Apogee's: Do they beam ?
I was curious if current or past owners of the larger Apogee's would consider this to be a small or wide sweet-spot type of speaker. This is not meant to be a trick question, i'm simply trying to research various "panel" type speaker designs, driver lay-out and dispersion patterns. I would also appreciate comments on ANY planar / ribbon / e-stat design that you think offers a relatively wide sweet spot. If you have ideas as to why this design achieves what it does, i'd love to hear those thoughts too : ) Sean
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