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Vandersteen 5A room placment options

I have had my 5A's in my 23 X 12 dedicated bowling alley for nearly three years now. I have settled down with the VAC Phi 300.1 stereo amp, which is IMO and in my room, the best I have heard them. OK! I have been shifting my rack around and reconfiguring things, so my rack w/ Turntable
has it's new home against the back wall rear of the left speaker. The rack will not be between speakers, as you can only see a foot or so of the RIX RAX's wide top shelf peaking out to the inside of the left speaker. The speakers are 93" out, or 1/3, of the 279" length of the room. Is it a bit far fetched to think I could move the speakers to the long wall, which I have never tried. I can't really conceive this working with the front plane of the speaker 3 feet out, and only having 8.5 or 9 feet remaining. Especially with the 5A's time aligned design, I can't see them working on the long wall, in a near field setup.
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summitav
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Just skimmed the preceding, and didn't see one mention of "ear height".

The 5A's are terribly sensitive to ear height and it is of equal importance to equidistance of each ear from the speakers.

The exact height is unknown to me, but Richard could tell you. In a mechancially stagered phase coherant system, an inch too high or low can make some difference
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