Center placed equipment stands

https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/7605

I am planning on adding some bigger speakers to the room shown in the above URL. I have a 1 foot deep and 72" long oak bookshelf, which is visible in one of the photos of the interior of my closet.

I was wondering if the bookshelf were moved to in-between the speakers would I get some sonic benefit, such as less reflection of sound waves from the absorption of the books? If I do that I can then put a low audio rack in the closet.

I know I can try this myself by moving the furniture but it would take me a long time to take down my desk and then move everything around. So I guess I am asking for a theoretical opinion on such an arrangement.

@davekayc Thanks for the time to write up that suggestion.  Your suggestion was something I never contemplated. I will have to let it percolate in the brain. Do you have any opinion of a bookshelf with books as a sound absorber in-between the speakers?

One thing that I am benefiting from today with this configuration is the ability to have my room door open, it makes my room sound bigger.  My room today sounds really good with the KEF LS50's but I want to get better gear in there.

The gear I have in this room will leave very soon and the incoming gear will likely be the much bigger Yamaha NS5000 "bookshelf" + Lyngdorf 3400 (with Room Perfect) + Luxman m900u amp. I will only use the preamp section of the Lyngdorf integrated. I am also considering the Anthem STR preamp with ARC3. So DSP is going to be part of this new system. I was considering putting the electronics, except the amp inside the closet.

This system will hopefully be my second system, with a bigger room available in a year or 2 for the placement of a non-DSP based system or I may even move this Yamaha based system to the future bigger room and ditch the DSP. 

@oregonpapa  Interesting.

https://highend-electronics.com/products/sr-hft-high-frequency-transformer

@davekayc If you are asking about how I play music, it is mostly streaming from 1 of my computers via a Sonore microRendu into the Peachtree. I also have a FM tuner and SACD player hooked up onto the integrated.

The types of music varies upon mood.

My current setup is rather good and suitable for such a small room. However, I am trying to blow the doors of the current setup with my next setup. Actually one of my thoughts was to keep the LS50s in this room and go crazy with the electronics such as the Luxman c900u preamp (non-DSP) and Luxman m900u amp. However, that changed along with interest in other (or better) speakers once the Yamaha NS5000 became available in the USA this month.

The next speaker I am get is likely the Yamaha NS5000, even on a temp basis, for this current room until I move to another house. So my question about adding the bookshelf containing a lot of books in-between the speakers was related to taming a very bass heavy speaker. I will speak with the dealer that will sell me Yamaha speakers and the DSP preamp or integrated about the bookshelf placement. Some DSP engines like Room Perfect actually suggest one does not use room treatments, but real world feedback (at least on A’gon) seems to indicate that treatments first, then DSP Room Perfect on top of that.

Exciting news today was the funding of this new system purchase has now become clear. I am just figuring out the final details of system setup now, thus these questions on this thread and the thread I started about Balanced XLR and the AES48 standard for long cable runs.