@tomic601 I had a buddy with some decent speaker wire so I now have appropriate lengths of 14 awg w/banana plugs out of amp and into vandys; almost the same length of comparable wire out of holes in 5 way binding post (screwed down tight w/no exposed wire) from l/r speaker out's to bare wire eagerly awaiting the sub that goodwill has yet to ship out...
moved some stuff around and I now have a good amount of room behind and left of the left vandersteen that will host the F12..around 4 feet from corner of the room. I AM READY! likely my one year old son will want to play with it so i'll have to think of some sort of baby proofing..
will keep posted w/results