In short, it is hard to think of anything more disastrously credibility destroying than to criticize Mike's room, or hospitality.
You are completely out of line with that comment. Mike's hospitality was very much appreciated and not remotely questioned. Please don't create fights with such falsehoods.
As to your observations of sitting in corner and such, I am not aware of your listening skills. I do know that my experience in non-optimal location was not good. Here is my extensive write-up of one of my visits to his room:
"I initially sat on the second room to the left. That is behind the sweet listening chair visible in the above picture.
I must say that experience was pretty disappointing. The sound was dull and uninteresting. Try as I might, I could not get excited or understand why people come back with superlatives to describe the sound in Mike's room. There was little soundstage, highs were muffled, bass rather dry but not blended in well, etc. On scale 1 to 10, I would give it 4.
We were taking turns to sit in the rolling center chair. I got my chance after 15 minutes or so and boy did that transform the experience. There was a precise depth to the soundstage with pretty high isolation of instruments. Highs came back to life and bass become very supportive. I did not want to hog the chair too long and gave it up to others."
Anyway, none of his has anything to do with my post. I was merely mentioning that in a thread dedicated to measurements and fellow demanding room measurements, you don't go and post about Mike system. And any comment about his sound relative to mine without listening or measurements, says you have substituted your eyes for your ears.