The sweet spot is the only spot. But you can have a system that makes the sweet spot less prominent but it's never as good as a more critical system. Concerts are mono and there is no sweet spot, it works great until you get way off axis.
Off-axis listening
While my listening room has a perfectly acceptable center "sweet spot" listening chair, I often enjoy off-axis listening a bit more. In my sweet spot, I have a broad soundstage and my mostly jazz music images nicely. I can picture the stage on live events and easily place the individual instruments as well as determine the direction a piano is on stage. Surprisingly, this imaging also carries over to my off-axis listening position. Nothing as far as soundstage, depth, or location of performers is at all lost. It's just being viewed (heard) from an off-center position. At a live event, few seats are centered on the performers but sitting to the side doesn't diminish the soundstage, ability to locate the performers, or enjoy the music. Makes me wonder what all the fuss is about defining the precise "sweet spot".
BTW, speakers are GE Triton R1s fed by 50 w Cary six pac monoblocs.
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J.Chip