Speaker set up and IRREGULAR rooms.


For some odd reason a closet was built in my living room. It juts out from the right side wall ahead of my listening spot. It actually limits where my listening position can be. Future plans do include removing it but in the mean time I have a question about positioning of my floor standers. Because of the closet it effectively makes it so that if I were to draw an imaginary line from the face of my closet to the back wall I'm at 11.5 ft. room width. Past the closet and to the right of the speaker it opens into the dining room. What does anyone think about placing the right speaker outside the imaginary line effectively in the area leading to the dining room? it is still clearly fully visible though I'm sure I'm getting some of the output bouncing off the side wall of the closet. I ask because it allows me to get a lot more distance between mains. I have Dali Opticon 8s and placed as so they sound pretty fantastic. 
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@elliotnewcombjr Perhaps I didn't explain myself clearly. There is no corner for my right speaker as there is no wall. There is an opening into the diningroom. It is 9 feet from the back wall to the side of the offending closet farthest from me. Right now if a wall were to appear it would dissect my woofers right down the middle. Since my post I have been working on distance from back wall to get a good balance between bass response, soundstage depth and width and imaging. The spot I found puts them 54" from front of speaker to back wall. WAF is poor as it really narrows the walk space between said closet and speaker. The good thing is I won't cave if this proves to be the best position. My right side sub is a good foot and a half into the other area angled towards me.
@mijostyn Thanks for the info about the farther away the less I have to worry. Dali recommends not toeing these in as they do well off axis. I don't know about anyone else but 11.5 feet doesn't seem that wide and when you take away distance from side walls (wall) it really narrows the distance between speakers. The only way to overcome this is placing the right speaker past where the wall would be.
@bjesien Thanks so much for the comment about distances from the wall. In my current arrangement I am unable to sit squarely between the speakers. I've been taught you want the speakers the same distance from the back wall but this effectively makes one speaker 2 feet farther away which of course makes one louder than the other. My concern if I don't have them placed asymetrically is whether bass response will be effected.
@arcticdeath so in your opinion you still don't have then set up optimally or are you saying they're as good as it's going to get?