Speaker positioning

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Hi guys - 
 
I recently moved and am trying to setup my stereo speakers again. I have been driving myself crazy trying to figure out which compromises to make positioning these speakers...
 
I have a room, 10' x 9' My desk being on the 10' wall, and it is 4' wide by 2' deep. I have a 2' x 2' side cabinet. Then I have a speakers stand, with my bookshelf KEF Q300 there, on the other side (right) I have a gap and then the other Q300. The problem here is that I just don't have enough room to hit all the bullet points... KEF says (page 9): 
 
- be at least 9" from the back of the speaker to the wall
- be at least 39" from the side wall
- have 6-10' (max) between speakers 
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[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588)]Some compromises has to be made, here, so my question is, which is more important; and how important is it to aim toward myself, as I am at a desk, they would be angled quite significantly inwards towards myself.[/color]
 

 
I have the left one as far out as I do because the furniture is as far left as it can go. -- So as you can see The left sound is traveling 4 more inches than the right (approximately). Now I do tend to sit more on the left side anyways, so can I discount this, how big of a deal is it?
 
How significant an issue is the wall spacing or any of it?
 
Thanks a million for any direction/help at all!
-Eric

 

[cel4145]

It's a little hard for me to tell exactly what is going on even with the diagram. An actual picture is worth a 1000 words

A speaker's frequency response changes as it goes off axis (some of course more than others). So you want the speakers toed in toward you to prevent that and you want the tweeters approximately aimed at your ears.

Otherwise, Kef is giving you a guide, and by trial and error, you should be able to find optimum placement for your particular space. Just go by how it sounds and adjust the left/right balance on your system to get the centering right for the speakers if they are not the same distance from you.