Chuck, from your description of your room you are probably hearing a lot of music reflected from your walls, front to back then to you. If this works great, phase would be difficult to get right but perhaps with a room small enough such a trick might really be the ticket. I know most small room set ups I have seen have placed the speakers as close to the back wall as possible, and they usually sounded muffled and bloated. Your set up is really unique but I can see where it could work. Thanks for sharing the ideas.
