Potential upgrade path…

@kota1 

while room treatments can make a great improvement in the sound.....i think  you have to look at the bigger picture here when it comes to this and this is the OP better half.     I highly doubt she is going to let him do this.

there was a time ( at another house ) where i had the system in the living room and i told her that members talk about room treatments and how it helps the sound, and she was perfectly fine with panels on the walls......it was when i mentioned hanging panels from the ceiling is where she drew the line.       

my other half is ok with panels on the walls....but how many times have we all read on here that panels are not allowed on the walls due to the other half not accepting them ?              honey, its ok if you want to be in this audio hobby and spend all this money on equipment to listen to music, but heaven forbid you do whats next.   to me, it just doesnt make sense.

Room treatment can be a good thing. But you’ll never get decent performance from any system with the speakers less than five feet apart. Room treatment won’t solve that issue.

Speaker placement is key too, I use the Dolby specs of L and R speaker 22 to 30 degrees angle from the MLP. If you can't move speakers wide enough you have to bring the MLP forward.

Ozzy my speakers are currently 9’ apart from center baffle to center baffle. I might be able to get to 10’. 

Kota I will look into the room treatment kit you speak of. With the right decorative panels it might pass. It will be interesting to see where Anthony will put them with the furniture in the room. Right behind my listening position is a window with a fairly heavy curtain so the ceiling and side walls are probably all that could be treated. I have known for a while that room treatments were necessary. The panels I have were an experiment that I thought helped to a degree. I suspect, like Riley, that the ceilings might not fly.