Room placement for Vandersteen Treo CT


I  am considering Vandersteen Treo CT's for purchase. In doing some research on them I read they are very sensitive to room placement in order to achieve their best performance.  I've some limitations on where I could place them in my listening room. My listening room is approximately 13'x22' with a cathedral ceiling roughly 16' high from the floor in the center of the room. eight foot high where it meets the front and rear walls.. The speakers will be located on the front long wall equally spaced from the center of that wall. There are a fair amount of furnishings in the room, furniture, built in bookshelves, a library table etc. 

My first questions is, what is the closest I could place the Treo's from the wall, I think "Johnny from AudioConnections" said, you might be able to place them as close as "seven to fourteen inches" from the wall, but I can't find the reference. Somebody else said wall placement was okay as it would reinforce the bass output, which the Treo would benefit from. I thought you were supposed to not put ported speakers near a wall, but these being bottom ported  maybe it doesn't matter.

The second question is, what would you guess to be the minimum distance they need to be from one another?  I have a four foot wide flat screen television centered on the front wall. I would love to be able to place the Treo's on either side of the flat screen, with the outside edges of the Treo's being seven feet apart, but am afraid this might be too close together.  I could place them another two feet or so apart, but the speaker on the right side would then partially block the view of a built-in in 120 gallon aquarium which would not be ideal, but doable.

What do you think?  I would appreciate your experience and guidance here. Thanks

Michael

skyscraper
>>Room placement for Vandersteen Treo CT<<

In most cases it’s quite difficult to change a room’s placement. 

Tomic60, Richard Vandersteen came over your house to check out your Vandersteen’s speaker placement? I can’t even get the local audio store dealers to do adequate demos of their own equipmment in their own stores. You are the one.

I’ll check out your pictures in "virtual systems". Is that located on site somewhere? I was wondering why you couldn’t post pictures along with your written posts. One of the woodworking machines sites I frequent is always insisting on pictures along with posts when relevant. Thanks for your advice

Wcfeil2, you are no doubt correct there.

Mike


At the top of the page is the Title with a Dropdown tab. Click it and you will see an option for Virtual Systems.
B
Thanks Bob.  

Tomic601, I looked at your pictures. I especially enjoyed the ocean views. Nice setting for listening to music. Nice looking Vandersteens too. 

Mike
@skyscraper.....Richard and I share a couple of interests..airplanes and audio and he happened to be in the neighborhood- so why not make him work !!!!
lucky but the view makes the beach boys sound better! surfing usa!