Hi John,
Thanks for commenting. Good eye! So, Verity suggests that based on my distance from the listening position (<10 feet) and my ceiling height (they recommend placement of the Finn from rear wall as follows: front baffles being ceiling height X 0.62 = distance from wall), that the front baffle of the Finn should be about 49 inches from my rear wall. In the pic, they are about 40 inches. I can (and often do) move them out a little more when listening solo. In general I think I get away with cheating a little bit because that rear wall is completely made of acoustic absorbing Owens Corning 705 rigid fiberglass covered in acoustically-transparent fabric, so the rear-firing woofer on the Finn isn't faced with the typical sonic reflections on the same level as, say, typical drywall. I deadened that wall purposefully to try and compensate for lack of depth in the room (and also because it is a basement wall that untreated was poured concrete).
My problem is when I try to create a little larger listening area to encompass two chairs side-by-side about a foot apart from one another. Given my space constraints, I've found moving the speakers back just a little and towing them in more has created a little wider listening area. I'm still experimenting with placement to find the best solution for a wider listening area, but so far that seems to yeild the best results.
