Unfortunately time would not permit another listening session off-axis, which would also be very difficult to judge anyway, as nothing sounds good off-axis that I've ever heard. I suspect it would be a serious challenge to even try to describe what you hear off-axis too. Our goal is to evaluate for the best two-channel critical listening performance, which will always require listening in the sweet spot.
Hey Sonnie, this is a somewhat ironic comment as it was apparently a topic of debate for another moderator recently. Do some speakers sound better when toed so you are off the central axis?
The answer is an unequivocal yes. In fact some speakers with an axis-symetric waveguide in the vertical and horizontal axis will have an on axis hole that makes the on axis response not flat.
All speakers have a particular set of design choices and waveguides serve a very specific purpose: controlling directivity. The design goal with a waveguide speaker is a flat directivity index (or should be if the designer knows what they are doing). My speaker, for example has a listening axis of 22 degrees. That means the toe angle should be such that the listener in the sweet spot is actually hearing each speakers 22 degree from center axis response.
Waveguides and directivity matching at the crossover allow such speakers to roll off the response such that at a certain axis the response is flat but 6db quieter. This creates a listening axis where the response is flat but gets louder and quieter within a +\- 3db window. This allows a little magic to take place, you can create a huge sweet spot and a more stable soundstage. The physics that allow this is known as time intensity trading. I won't bugger up this thread with an explanation but I'll like an article that explains it. I think it's a very misunderstood topic unfortunately and has lead to most large waveguide speakers being setup improperly.
http://www.libinst.com/PublicArticles/Setup of WG Speakers.pdf
The only speaker you had that could potentially achieve this feat is the JBL and it's small midbass drivers mean that it would only have directivity control down to the crossover point. Still I was curious how it would do.
I'm hoping to do a more detailed write-up with a video or animation to show this effect. There are some applications that let you click through the polar response to see how it works for a waveguide speaker vs a direct radiator.