Good Lord, if I hear one more inaccurate posting on stereo, I'm gonna go postal!

Look, anyone with a stereo can prove this to themselves. Make a CD with ONE tune done twice. First version stereo, second version mono (any audio editor will do this easily).

Now stand ANYWHERE in your living room, and switch between the two versions. To get the BEST stereo effect, yes, you should sit, stand, dance, whatever, at a point in an equatorial triangle between the speakers. But standing almost anywhere else in the room, short of right next to one of the speakers, you WILL hear a difference between mono and stereo.

The idea that unless you stand in that one 'sweet spot' you won't hear it at all is simply ridiculous...