New room, very small .Speaker Placement???

You should be flexible about the Hales. If you can get them to work, fine, but if not... Three big issues will present themselves. First, can you set the speaker to listener distance great enough for the speaker's drivers to coherently integrate? Can you position the speakers far enough into the room for them to throw the soundstage they are capable of? Will the full range nature of the speakers over excite the bass modes of the nearly square room? If only one of these problems is unresolved then you won't have high end sound. If two are left unresolved you won't even have good sound.

Best of luck!

I remember sometimes back I inherited a room which was 12 ft x 12 ft 3 inches. There were two serious problems associated with it:

1) Floorstanders really excited the room nodes in a negative way as Onhwy61 has pointed out as well.

2) I could not play "Hotel California" due to boom for the three years I occupied it. It was just not listenable no matter which speakers I was using.

The best option is to have standmounters.

I am hoping the two short walls will largen the room. I can pull the speakers as far into the room as I like. If I were to have them at the full wall out 3 feet or so and about a foot and a half into the room from the side of the half walls. could that maybe work? Of course I will have to try it to know for sure but I am just looking for ideas. I am hoping because two of the parallell walls only come up tp 3 and 1/2 feet tall that I will have the effect of a larger room. If I put the speakers 3 feet into the room from the full walls and a foot and a half in from the side partial walls I wouldn't have allot of side reflection from the tweeters and the bass would not be as tightly closed in. If I do the partial walls in front of me and behind me I would get a deeper soundstage but would have the full wallds on the sides of me which would reflect the sound bouncing off the full wall. Basically I am wondering which way would work best in theory. If the Hales don't work I'll use my Jungson Monitors and store the Hales. The money that was put into them would not justify the perhaps $2000 I might be able to sell them for. The fact that they were modified lowers their value but I put almost $650 or $700 worth of parts into each box.
Time will answer all my questions but I was hoping for theoretical solutions to try.

Bass traps in the corners behind the speakers might help. I wouldn't trade in the Hales for monitors--I think it's better to try to deal with the problems an excellent full range speaker may have than to give up 'real' bass for what a monitor can do. I imagine that's unpopular, but so be it. You could also find a preamp with tone controls. Good luck!

Mitch, try using Cara Quick to play around with placement.
http://www.cara.de/ENU/index.php?load=quick.html (its pretty self explainatory... note that you can actually move the speakers and listening position in the little diagram of the room layout by click each item).