Well, just to throw Mutley a bone ...

Back when Ted Jordan and Doreen Bance were still married, Ted demonstrated some early Jordan 2" drivers to me. They went down to about 200Hz and he had them four per side in a mini-vertical array.

He used to toe them in so that they crossed in front of the sofa. That way, you would get a really good soundstage across quite a wide seating position. It never sounded quite right to me though, probably because the high frequencies dropped too much for my taste when listened to off-axis.

Regarding the comments about imagery and soundstaging from amplifiers, I will admit that there are many strange things out there. It's life Jim but ...