That speak a lot about your room and system relation...
Then all my soundstage/imaging/listener envelopment effect are distortions?
Phasing errors?
Half of my recorded albums at LEAST and more present sound outside of the back/front and left /right vertical plane between the speakers, and sometimes the two together and in some case even behind my back or beside my ears like in headphone ?
It is way more probable that your room /system is not up to the task by your own ignorance of room acoustic settings than by my own wrongdoing ? 😁😊
Invoking phase discrepencies to explain a COHERENT acoustical wotking in my room is ridiculous...
Think about your own room/system. defect....I can help you.... Disconnect your equalizer and open your ears....
A well set up system will not image beyond it's speakers with normal program sources.