Speakers that disappear

I had Focal Aria 906’s on the factory stands and could easily make mine disappear at the front of the room.  Soundstage was nice and wide, and you could not pinpoint the exact location of the speakers. Phantom center channel was right where it should be. In my room that ended up being with slight toe-out (not in).  What did you find with the 906 that you could not accomplish. As others have said a lot has to do with the room as well.  I have since moved on to Aria 926 with similar results (but the 926 require toe-in and a slight tilt forward). 

After you do all of the above, turn the lights off at night, poof…speakers disappear. I’m completely serious. After hours of placement experiments, some room treatment, center seat of sofa in just the right spot, well recorded track, lights off and my Klipsch disappear completely. The only thing you can see are a few LEDs and the beautiful glow of 845 output tubes. Spooky good! 

Same theme in the responses here, Room treatments, Set-up, and Synergy. 

Not sure of your budget but another idea would be the MBL 126 I have not heard it but it does get incredible reviews and seems to have the traits you are looking for. 

+1000 to everyone who mentioned synergy. I have a story for you from last week.

A friend owns a number of speakers. Focal Utopia Scala Evo, Dynaudio Confidence 60 and Dali Epicon 8. This story is about the Dali.

He is fortunate to have access to numerous components from many different manufactures. Every time a new piece arrives we have a listening session where we try all three speakers and compare against his reference. 

In every case, the Dali was forward and the speakers never disappeared, regardless of placement. This changed last week when his new reference amp and preamp arrived. 

Not only do the Dali disappear, but we preferred the result of this combination over the other speakers. They went from being my least favorite to us thinking the new Epikore 11 could be his new end game with this combo.

Synergy is everything. We have had many huge lessons at his place with the ability to have so much gear come and go, but this ranks possibly at the top in terms of a 180 from a single component change. I say single because it was the amp, his older preamp resulted in the same disappearing act.