Larger Apogee's: Do they beam ?


I was curious if current or past owners of the larger Apogee's would consider this to be a small or wide sweet-spot type of speaker. This is not meant to be a trick question, i'm simply trying to research various "panel" type speaker designs, driver lay-out and dispersion patterns. I would also appreciate comments on ANY planar / ribbon / e-stat design that you think offers a relatively wide sweet spot. If you have ideas as to why this design achieves what it does, i'd love to hear those thoughts too : ) Sean
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sean

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I will only be able to provide a listener's perspecive no clue on the "how" side. I found that Apogees (particularly Divas) had what I would consider a pretty generous sweet spot from side to side, though the soundstage changed considerably as listening height changed, necessitating careful adjustments (in my room, with my setup).

Compared to a number of dynamic speakers with great imaging (Avalon and Kharma are two manufacturer's whose speakers I have owned more recently), the sweet spot on the Apogee Diva was huge! (at least in the range of positions from which you could appreciate the near-full width and depth of the soundstage)

Hope that helps at all...

Jacob