Widening Soundstage

Try a mono center speaker bleeding the signal from the left and right channels. You will need a mono amp and speaker with similar quality as your stereo setup. You will be surprised what you have been missing when you gradually turn up that center speaker. It's like realizing that you have a blind spot in your field of view that you've had all your life but never knew it until you did the simple sight test to demonstrate the empty area. Once you have the center speaker, you will be able to separate the other two and widen your sound stage.

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?!"