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Revel f208, dead center image but everything jumbled up?

I recently got revel f208 from my dealer as an open box. A rep from Harman said that they don’t need any break in period. 
I am using peachtree nova500 for the electronics with oasis 5.2 speaker wire and mostly listen to Tidal through the inbuilt DAC. 
The image is pretty dead center which is great and I like the vocals, it’s lifelike. The bass is pretty good as well as the HF. However, since the image is dead center, I am not feeling the sound stage. It feels like drummer, vocalist, bassists are all jumbled up or in the same straight line. It doesn’t even feel like the sound is coming from the speakers, because everything is in the dead center. Is that normal? I used to have B&W cm9 before this and that image was not dead center however I could feel the sound coming from both the speakers. But for F208, It doesn’t even feel like the sound is coming from the speakers, everything is just kinda jumbled up in the center. I Just love everything else about the speaker except the image or sound stage? 
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How much toe-in are you using?
Revel F208/206 recommend direct aim/toe-in at the listening position for best focus of soundstage, incremental degrees of away from direct aim to widen the soundstage.

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Along the lines of yogiboy's thought.... 
if you are biwiring them check the HF +/- and LF +/- connections.  I know it may sound blatantly obvious but I've seen it happen before where one single set of posts was backwards and it caused a collapse in stage width. 

Hope you are making some positive headway with your new Revels.

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