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
Greetings.  I’m new to this forum and just found this thread. I have owned my Treo CT’s for about a year now and love the sound but I only have a little knowledge about placement, which now sounds like a most, if not the most critical process.  I’m in Northern VA and very close to the seller, so I’m going to reach out and have him come by to help sort it out, which will include the best placement in my challenging basement - including 11am ceiling, L-shape, with the Treo’s in front of a solid exposed brick wall with a stoop.  I will also reread the manual about placement.  Gave up all hope bases on the room layout.  Thanks for all the great help!  
@next8,
PM or call John Rutan (audioconnection- that is the name of his store in Verona NJ).
He will provide you step by step direction.
And, don't feel like he will try to sell you something. He's too classy for that.
Bob
@next8 congrats on a fantastic pair of speakers. if you create a virtual system here on audiogon and post a few photos of the space that will help. You can also do a rough dimension sketch and post that. All Vandersteen manuals offe RV a math based approach to placement... initial starting location... a laser measure is imo hyper valuable and like $30. Finally, I am jokingly the 24/7/365 support hotline, but I have John Rutan on speed dial !!!!!
best to you
jim