Thanks for getting back to me but another issue came up with a tall stack of equipment sitting between my mains. It sucked the life out of my soundstage.
Glad you heard that and for sharing. With solid sound staging it should be easily heard. Years ago had a compact secondary setup with a small rack and CRT TV between the speakers. The image of a xylophone rift was clearly interrupted as it "entered" the TV from the right, then "reappeared" left of the TV. I've always been a fan of small setups and had the same 22"h x 20"w x 16"d rack in use in my big rig along the front wall and noticed the same to a lesser extent. Eventually downsized my setup even more and ended up with a single shelf on the floor away from the front wall with gear no more than 4" above the floor which really opened up the sound stage. Currently running a NAD M10 for a compact one piece setup.
Wonder why you don't use the subs for audio. My big rig now (audio only) has (10) 2ft x 4ft GIK 244 panels, (3) tall randomly filled bookcases for diffusion, and (3) subs to control bass peaks in a near ideal 8ft x 13ft x 21ft room as per the teachings of Floyd Toole. Highly suggest reading his "Sound Reproduction" 3rd edition, the consummate layman's guide to room acoustics. The subs work for the room, not audio versus HT. Toole recommends carefully located subs near corners. Having (6) woofers plus a sub inline is definitely not recommended. I have mine 12", 19", and 31" from the corners. If I pick up a fourth, it'd be 50" from the corner with the 31" sub moved off the floor.