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What is the point of point source?

I often read reviews of equipment that praise whatever is being reviewed for being a point source. I read this as a focused narrowly defined area that the music eminates from. I prefer the image of an "outside the speakers" soundstage that is often referred to. So why is point source a positive attribute?
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I think one way to look at what people conceptually like about point source speakers is that microphones used to record music act in general like point receivers. There are various pickup patterns and multi-miking is common but you don't record a sound event with treble, mid, and bass microphones arranged top to bottom.

So the general idea with a 'point source' speaker being that it acts like a microphone in reverse. Whether this sounds good to you in your room is up to you.
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