how far do you sit from your speakers?

I think it has a lot to do with the type of music I prefer, room size, speaker size and maker as to where the speakers sound best. I mostly listen to jazz, blues and rock so my speaker placement is more immediate with an open sound stage that has more width than depth. If I listen more to classical, big band and or parade type music I think I would want a much deeper and wider sound stage because of the size and scale of the music and the complexity is much more involved.

I can also turn my bass cabinet forward or backwards and again for the type of music I listen to I have them forward.

My room size taking away the record rack along the back wall is 19D X 14'7"W X 8'H. I sit 3' from the back wall and 11' from my speaker. The speaker are 2' 8" from the side wall, 4'5" from the back wall and they are 9' apart at the tweeter. I toe them in quite a bit.

I'd agree that it really depends on the room and system and personal preferences.

Kind of like Lincoln's answer to the query, "how long should a man's legs be?" Lincoln's reply: "Long enough to reach the ground."

I sit about 1 tot 2 feet from the wall about 8 feet from my speakers. My Speakers are about 8 feet apart. This is the maximum I can reach in my room. My listening room is also my living room. The whole room is about 13 feet wide and about 22feet long. Not ideal but Dutch house tend to be (a lot) smaller then houses in the US. I have have furniture between my speakers. I hop to do something about that though.

My ideal would be speaker about 8 feet apart listening position about 10feet from the tweeters. But I all depends on the speaker room and most importantly the all mighty WAF.

My room is 10'x12'. I sit against the back wall (short wall) with the speakers 4' from my ears.

A little under 7'. The speakers are a little under 7' apart between the tweeters and over 5' off the front wall.

I'm over 4' off the back wall although there's an open hallway immediately behind my seat.

You want to sit as close as you can with the drivers still integrating because distance reduces their level relative to the reverberant field. 8' out from conventional speakers you may be getting as little as 1/16th of the energy directly from the speakers.

You want both yourself and speakers far away from reflective surfaces so your brain doesn't hear the reflections as part of the direct sound.