Speakers on long wall or short wall?

IME, the long wall presented fewer bass related problems and spread the music around more efficiently.
Wall materials and obviously room layout play a large part, too.

For example, there were notable improvments (in everything, really) when placing my speakers along a long, load bearing brick wall. One was free to lounge about wherever, and still get good music. However, it was domestically impossible to live with due to furniture and room layouts.

I'm now using them against a short room divider, and find that one must be fairly anchored into place to get the best effect especially wrt bass behavior. It's easy to tell by walking the length of the room where the bass humps are.

Clear as mud?

At my old house my listening room was 20x11 feet. With the speakers on the short wall the system was bass shy. On the long wall bass heavy.

In my present 8x11 ft listening room, (or should that be listening booth!) the exact opposite applies. Long wall no bass, short wall lots of bass (a bit too much sometimes).

The listening position also plays a major part. I.e. more bass near the room boundaries.

Steve B