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Informal results - almost a three-way tie between the two (I said it was informal)

First of all, thank you to all who participated. I appreciate your time and the thought you put into it.

Since most people wrote comments, I could see that there were more divisions of opinion than the two the poll allowed for. Since this is all informal anyway, I decided to classify the responses into three rather than two categories because that made more sense to me given the additional information available in the comments made.

Category One - The one sweet spot is where it's at: Ten votes fit into this category. I think Acres Verde's comment was excellent, so in case anyone missed it here it is again:

"It is more important for me to have one place where everything is just optimally locked in than any other scenario which would constitute compromise for the sake of a broader, more stable, but generally more diffuse soundfield."

Category Two - The one sweet spot is preferred, but the sound quality in other areas is still important: Ten votes fit this descripton. Musetap summed it up well for this group:

"For "critical" listening the sweet spot is best, but certainly NOT all that matters to me, not by a long shot."

Category Three - One sweet spot not favored over other locations; or many sweet spots; or one very large sweet spot: Nine votes in this category. I'll use Drew Eckert's comment:

"Properly setup good speakers lack a sweet spot for tonal correctness, and image correctly over an area."

Bob Rex noted that there is often a row of "sweet spots" along the centerline of the room were the speakers & listener form an isosocles triange. This has been my experience as well, and I've noticed that my chosen "sweet spot" is usually farther back along this centerline than that which most people would choose.

Just for the record, I didn't vote - but my vote would have landed in the second category.

Duke

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