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Need more comfortable furniture!!
Reader Samo Jecnik, from Ljubljana, Slovenia, has a simple question for audiophiles: "I'd like to know how much time per week <I>Stereophile</I> readers <I>listen</I> to the music on their <I>main</I> systems. I mean the time they're sitting in the sweet spot."
i love sweet-spot listening! I find that the two hours before I go to bed at night are the best. Listening in the sweet spot is a joy. In a dark room, I find that the sweet spot and the darkness give me a more real listening experience that I can't get in the daytime. I do find, however, that listening in the sweet spot makes you spoiled to the point that, until you find the sweet spot in the local stereo shop's room whille checking out gear for the system, frustration tends to build a lot quicker.
I hope this isn't a prelude to one of those ads for omnidirectional loudspeakers. Stereo has a sweet spot. If you are longing for more, read about Michael Gerzon and Ambisonics in the last 20 years of the AES journals. It's already been invented! The stereo ad men just haven't figured out how to hype it!