You know, I think of the "sweet spot" for speakers completely differently than I do for live music, especially acoustic.
To me, the sweet spot for a speaker is tonal and spacial. That is, that it preserves a stereo image within it AND sounds good.
In a live environment, the idea of losing the stereo image does not apply to me at all. The musicians and instruments exist in the space and as I move around the "quality" of the image remains constant. There’s no concept in my mind of finding a listening location where I have "good imaging" in a live performance. It is all good.
Of course, being too close and too much at an angle of a symphony orchestra I won’t hear all the instruments equally well, but the imaging is always accurate.
This is not the same of course as wanting to be surrounded by the musicians.
To me, the sweet spot for a speaker is tonal and spacial. That is, that it preserves a stereo image within it AND sounds good.
In a live environment, the idea of losing the stereo image does not apply to me at all. The musicians and instruments exist in the space and as I move around the "quality" of the image remains constant. There’s no concept in my mind of finding a listening location where I have "good imaging" in a live performance. It is all good.
Of course, being too close and too much at an angle of a symphony orchestra I won’t hear all the instruments equally well, but the imaging is always accurate.
This is not the same of course as wanting to be surrounded by the musicians.