This was an incredible LP setup with no less than three arms! One was dedicated to mono. The other two had a Ortofon MC Anna, ($9K) and MC A95 ($6.5K) cartridges for comparison. The two sounded substantially different with audience not agreeing to which one was better! Love these kind of demonstrations.
I thought the speakers were too far apart. To deal with room issues, there were a lot more companies using the length of the room for the speakers but then we sat too close to them given the shallow depth of the room. You would get this disjointed sound as if you had two independent mono speakers at times. Tough situation to be in from manufacturer point of view.