LARGER SWEET SPOT WANTED Von Schweikert ?

Acarians do that and are often synergistic w/VTLs. Cheers,
Spencer

I can only compare Dynaudios with Von Schweikert and find the soundscape to be taller and wider with the VS with the speakers in the same footprint, and without loss of precise location of instruments and voices. I don't know how they do it.

I'll second that the VSA speakers have very good off-axis reproduction. In my stairwell off of the living room they still sound very good. This would be about 45 degrees off axis and four feet below.

If you mean by larger sweet spot, the ability of someone sitting to either side of the sweet spot to get a good sense of soundstaging width etc, and not just hear mostly the speaker in front of them.........

Before you venture out to get new speakers, often getting a larger sweet spot can be accomplished by simply positioning the speakers so that the axis of the speakers cross in front of the listening position.

Works very well with a lot of dynamic speakers, and other than looking odd there is little down side, in fact it also tends to give a bit better focus to the center image because of a possible reduction or change in side wall and ceiling reflection patterns. Try it, its free.

I do it in my room and folks sitting in front of the speakers get a credible stereo image, not as pure as the sweet spot, but quite credible non the less. A side benefit is that I can also place the speakers closer to the side walls because of the reduced effect of the 1st reflection points.

The Daedalus DA-1 loudpspeakers are designed to address exactly what you are looking for. They have 2 tweeters in each channel that are at offset angles to provide a very wide "sweet area."

Even at demo/used pricing, these are a tad out of your price range. However, they do what you desire. If you can swing the higher price, you should look into these. There are several recent threads.