The room is about 16X28, but the wall the equipment sits on, has the door opening into the room. So that cuts the wall space down to about 13 feet or so. My standard starting place would be about a foot off the back wall, and for the speaker that is close to the sidewall...would be about a foot off the sidewall. So there is about 10 feet between the speakers.
This is a basement with a droped ceiling at about 7 1/2 feet high, cheap carpet sitting over concrete..stock basement stuff.

Is there any recomended starting point, or is it up for grabs?