Armoire between speakers

Have you considered putting a wooden base with wheel casters underneath your speaker stands. You can wheel your speakers into place when you wish to listen and then wheel the speakers back when you are finished.

Granted it is a bit of a diy project/ kluge, but our systems exist within the rest of our living space. I have never really had an ideal system set-up, mostly because of energetic cats prancing about, but I find that I can work around most things.

Rich

... I am always struck on how people will comprise their sound with other furnishings in the listening room ...

It is often unavoidable, unless you are only sharing your living space with plants.

Rich