Room placement help

[maandjojo]

The room is a basic rectangle with the dimensions being 13' 1" wide X 26' long. The only speakers in question are my 2.3 TLs'. The speakers are
21" X 2= 42". The tv stand is 62" wide for a total of 104". Putting the speakers along the width wall of the room only gives me 53" left for 26" between the outer walls and the speakers not the 36" recommended. I can run the speakers along the length side and the distance then would be no problem at all between the speakers and the outside walls but obviously leaves less room between sitting position and tv and front plane of the speakers. With 13' I can probably get to 10' away and use bipole, dipole speakers for surround.
My thoughts are now leaning heavily for putting the speakers on the length side of the walls and really getting the most out of the spatial affect of the speakers. Give me your thoughts.
Oh yeah, the tv is 57 inches but I will need to get another one so this one could go in the living room and the one for the home theatre could be smaller.
What are your thoughts?

Joe

[Schurkey]

Let me guess: About an 8-foot ceiling.

Not at all an ideal room based on standing-waves and bass emphasis/cancellation. But it's what you have, so there isn't much you can do about it. Sound-absorbing room treatments would probably help.

There are computer programs that will model the standing wave behavior of the room; might be worth a few bucks to see how your room will react.

I have a similar room; I set mine up with the speakers on the narrow wall; but I might have been better off to have done it the other way.

[nooshinjohn]

... I think the best thing you can do is send those big ugly SDA's my way and get a Bose setup

[JohnLocke88]

... I think the best thing you can do is send those big ugly SDA's my way and get a Bose setup

+1. I agree completely with this, clearly it is the best solution to the problem at hand.

[maandjojo]

Not!