After all of the years and dedication to two channel why are you STILL searching for an end game speaker you can afford? Why haven’t you hit this goal years (or decades) ago? I was fortunate to have stumbled across the Sunfire Theater Grand 3 processor which incorporated what Bob Carver called "side axis" or wide channels. They solved the soundstage issue for me in 2002 and I never looked back, still using wide channels today. The only issue I have with Dolby's layout below is the MLP is too far back, I prefer equidistant between front and back walls: