Based on my extensive experience with speaker placement in various sized rooms over the years, I've found that speakers, in almost every case, sounded better farther out into the room. Just go to any High End Audio Show, and in 99.9% of the exhibitors rooms, you'll find that these experts always place their speakers out into the room several to many feet from the front wall. Placing the speakers out into the room helps to create greater depth of field within the soundstage, which creates spaciousness, and that lovely layering and airy effect that we all search for in our own rooms.
