Off-axis listening

Concerts are mono?

The sweet spot is the only spot. But you can have a system that makes the sweet spot less prominent but it's never as good as a more critical system. Concerts are mono and there is no sweet spot, it works great until you get way off axis. 

My room definitely has a sweet spot but when my wife wants to listen she takes the prime seat 😀 When I listen off axis I tend to become more obsessed with bass nodes in my room rather than imaging. 

I find that speakers with consistently wide dispersion from the midrange to treble can have a wide sweet spot with excellent imaging on and off axis, which is great, but they also seem to suffer more from close side walls.

Magico and Revel are great examples of this IMHO. I can’t have either of them in my living room becuase I just don’t have the width.

Touché!

I listen off axis, as well. It might be due to a slight deficiency in my left ear, but I never cared for being held captive and having to listen in only one place.

Hence, I own speakers that allow me to indulge my eccentricities.

B