Widening Soundstage

Redwoodgarden
That's a good suggestion and certainly different
I appreciate your "out of box" thinking

Some more improvements to the issue at hand

I found that by angling a mattress (roughly 30 degrees) behind my listening chair this helped widen the soundstage
and cleaned things up a bit - not sure why this is the case perhaps experts can chime in here

I also installed pio russian caps in my amps and this made everything so much more musical and soundstage widened a bit as well

Wow what a difference a month makes !!!

"Posioning the speakers with no toe in definitely widens the soundstage but at the expense of imaging "

This tends to be my experience, as well. When you try messing around with toe-in, do this: Take a piece of paper, draw an arc, and measure 1/4" increments on it. Tape it to the floor and use it to ascertain the proper toe-in for the sound you're after. Many times have I wondered while adjusting my speakers, "Where was that [toe-in] place where I heard the guitar over there?!"