On 10/01/2010 18:00, Laurence Payne wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:00:34 +0000, Keith Garratt
wrote:

I don't get the 'sweet spot' thing - the speakers I am listening to
right now usually seem to get louder the further I move away from them!!

"Sweet spot" is about the stereo image, not volume.


Yep.


And it's
generally reckoned to be a lot to do with how tightly hf beams from
the speaker.


Indeed, but we are open plan and what I am alluding to is that I listen
to and hear music as though the stereo image was (is) a solid object
that I can walk away from or even listen to from another room (when of
course it has become mono'd) and I am not aware of the music becoming
drastically 'unrecognisable' - whatever may be happening to the actual
sound!

In the final analysis, no two people in the same room hear exactly the
same sounds no matter what the source, do they?