Can good soundstage be had in small room

Your room is not that small and you should be able to achieve very good results with the right equipment and set-up. My "office" at home is only about 15 x 13 and i get an amazing amount of soundstaging with that system. Then again, i'm running omni's for speakers, so that helps a lot in terms of "spaciousness" of sound. Sean
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Lots of good information already posted above. I would say focus on room treatments. If it can become a dedicated listening room, even better. With correct acoustic treatment, the distances from walls won't affect the soundstage. 

Tom

Michael Fremer said it best: "Room treatments make the walls disappear".

Tom

Sound similar to me...

yep...hell my actual listening area is smaller than that and I have Legacy Signature speakers which are large floorstanders. I have them 8 feet apart, 4 feet from the side walls and about 3 feet from the front wall. And my seating position is 8 feet from the speakers...so basically a triangle with 8 feet sides, and they are toed in to cross behind my head. Excellent width and depth...it’s recording dependent of course. I was checking out two renditions of Bluesy Burrell for instance, one remastered and one original master, while the original is wide stereo, the remaster is brought in closer to the center (I prefer the original), and you can’t miss the placement of the musicians in my room if you tried...