Bridgman's posts on his trials demonstrate the insanity nicely.
Hey, wait a minute... ok, yeah, I guess so...
I gotta ask - when you are listening in your MLP, is your head clamped in some kind of device to stop any ear movement that might (probably) degrade the sound stage?
Surprisingly enough that wasn't the case. What I found was that the sweet spot actually got a bit bigger as I started getting the reflections under control, to the point where the sweet spot was at least a foot in any direction. Too little damping and there's basically no sweet spot, too much and it's really small...
... but there is a "just right" (or close enough anyways) in between.
I can only shake my head at the lengths some people seem to want to do to get what they are saying gives the perfect sound. What TAM has said rings a certain amount of truth, but look at it from a more scientific stance.
I hate to say it, but I went through all that to make the sound not suck. Once it got pretty good, I stopped. Really.
