For Magnepans try the "Rooze" comfiguration

Rooze...As I understand your setup, your chair is about 15 feet from the reflecting wall, and the speakers are about 9 feet from the wall. So the speakers are between you and the wall. In this situation you will hear more than 50 percent of the sound directly from the backsides of the Maggies.

Eldartford,

This isn't the case, and I see the confusion.

The room is a few inches short of 28' wide. The speakers are 9' from the wall behind them, so they're firing across 19' onto the wall opposite. I'm sitting behind the speaker, looking through the speaker at the opposite wall which is approx. 25' away. I'm looking at the rear of the speaker, which is just around 5' away from me. Common sense suggests that the sound I hear will be from the rear of the speaker, just a few feet away. But this isn't how it works. The speakers appear not to have any sound coming from them at all. The soundstage forms on the wall which is 25' away from me. The depth of the stage is somewhere around 10-12'.
I will try to sketch out this arrangement tomorrow, but there is a sketch on the asylum that details what I am talking about quite well.
To describe this in words makes little sense, you have to hear it for yourself.

Rooze

Rooze...I saw several diagrams on AA, and they just confused me.

I think I know now what you are saying. You are most certainly hearing sound directly from the speakers, but somehow that sound is being combined with the reflected sound in such a way that its origin is obscured, and the total sound seems to come from elsewhere as you report. I wish I had a room unencumbered with furniture to try your setup.

Of course good stereo speakers will also disappear when you play a monaural signal, and the sound will seem to come from empty space between the speakers.

Rooze:

I'm curious.Are both walls drywall? I'm guessing you reversed the left-right wiring?

Rooze

I noticed the pictures of your listening room from before.

Perhaps you can post a photo of the new Rooze configuration for us to see?

Also, do you have any experience with Maggies having better bass when your back, as listener, is up against the wall?

If so, what happens to the bass when you are out in the middle, floating in this direct/reflected sea of sound?

Still curious, but confused.