My speakers don't "dissapear"

First of all, burn in your equipment. Put either a burn-in disc, a CD with a lot of high and low synthesizer, or heavy metal CD on repeat and let it play 24/7 for 2-3 weeks. Keep changing the music once or twice a day. When you go to work, if you can, crank it up so that the speakers will settle in.

Second, go talk to the dealer where you bought the speakers and ask him to show you how to place or set the speakers up properly.

Assuming you have not placed them on a table or bookshelf or against a wall or next to a TV (any of which can collapse the sound to the speaker), then you have a problem. Do you have an incorrect setting in your DVD player/amp (is it converting CD's to pseudo surround or something - adding a "stadium reverb effect" for example - also many players with DSPs have many options for sound processing like "all speakers" or "pseudo surround" and "two-channel stereo straight through - no proceesing"). If you have fully exhausted the DVD and amp DSP menus you should take the speakers back or investigate if you have a problem elsewhere.

At one point, I ran the Krell 400xi, Krell SACD Standard, and Focal Micro Utopia BE's. I had no trouble getting the speakers to disappear. At 40 hours your equipment is not even remotely close to being broken in. The Micro Utopia BE's in particular take a very long time. I'd estimate approximately 400 hours for them to really come around. I was using GutWire Chime interconnects and speaker cable as well as GutWire power cords which definitely helped in getting the best out of this combination of gear. I don't know what you're using for cables, but break-in is probably most of the issue.

Two questions:

Does your listening room have 8 ft (or lower) ceilings?
Do you have a coffee table directly in front of your listening seat?
ATB,

Joe

Are your speakers wired out fo phase?