Soundstage wider than speaker placement?

Dekay, I've been to friends'houses and listened to lesser equipment;and drooled over the "room".Even tho imaging, and depth within the room killed what I hear in my room, I, like you, care more about what it sounds like;than where it's coming from.Books behind the speaker?? That's about as good as it gets. They don't absorb;they diffuse(ideal).The same diffuse thing works well at the first reflection pionts /side/and above. Ever been to Brooks Berdan in Monrovia? Not one tube trap.Pretty good guy too.

Avguygeorge: No I have never heard of Brooks Berdan, but will make note of it. I am really keen on the thrift shops in and around Monrovia and may be able to convince my wife to make the drive with me. My room is also horseshoe shaped with the speakers at the solid part of the "U" firing towards both the Living room and the narrow and long Kitchen (though they are in the living room) which should sound awful, but it doesn't. My favorite rooms in the past have had the old spanish "slap" plastered walls and domed ceilings, but our current place is modern 60's.

PS: The right wall is all books as well and the left one is almost solid paintings for the length of the room, including the doors. The wall that the speakers fire towars is 1/3 books all along the bottem with sculpted fabric drapes above that. Maybe that's why. I have never had a listening room of books before. I wonder what a real library would sound like?