Originally posted by XenonMan:
It would seem impossible for any device to move the "sweet spot" outside the boundaries of the speaker system itself. What I mean is if you drew a line between each of the speakers in your system, the "sweet spot" has to fall somewhere in those lines or not very far from the boundary at best. There is a limit to the amount of correction that can be applied.
Manipulation of phase can place images outside the boundries of the physical speakers. One of the first albums to exploit this was "Days of Future Past". It is routinely done today.