Also this: Jim Smith suggested, and I later confirmed with my own experiments, that moving speakers closer toward each other does not necessarily result in a narrower soundstage. In fact, I learned that it can result in a greater variety of soundstage presentations more dependent on the actual recording. In other words, the system presentation may become more transparent and revealing of the information on the recording.
Each of us decides for himself the balance between transparency to recording and "as we like it".
