Surprisingly, this is NOT what those that DO have a stereo Bose rig say, though, Gary...

Maybe the imaging isn't as detailed as a point source PA would make it (although, I've yet to hear anyone say they have compared the two side by side and got that impression), but if your poles are set up twenty feet apart or so, why it would suffer is beyond me.

And, bottom line, that twenty or thirty feet in front of you is where ALL the dancing takes place. Further out than that, who cares if the stereo doesn't matter?

Maybe Ian, zuki, leezone (you got two sticks?) or other Bose users that DO use stereo could chime in?