Sierra Towers w/ RAAL or Siera-2EX for (very) nearfield fronts?

[That One Guy]

I'm currently in the planning phase for a nearfield surround sound "entertainment center". After looking through several different threads, it seems my use case is a bit different from most people here. Hence, my situation.

This will be a desk configuration of sorts with a 49" 32:9 monitor taking the center piece.

Example image from the internet of what one looks like to give an idea of the scale of what I'm working with:

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Exact dimensions of speaker placement and listening position are tentative (and therefore a bit flexible), but would still prefer to be in a certain range. Ideally, fronts will be placed 5' to 6' apart, tweeter to tweeter. Listening position, being one seat, would be 3' to 4' away from either speaker. I plan on moving out of my current home before setting up this whole thing, so rest assured that I will find a room where it will all be placed in the the center of the room where it can breathe. Not in the corner like the image above.

Gaming is my primary use case (which I know is pretty rare here), so imaging and soundstage are both quite important to me. But I also do critical music listening pretty often as well, and do watch movies occasionally and will marathon shows. So I do everything, but by and large gaming and music is my concern.

Crux of the situation is that, price being no object whatsoever, would the Towers or the Sierra-2 2EXs be better as fronts from that distance? I'm sure the Sierras would be just fine there, but my concern is that the Towers' drivers would align "behind my head" and that I wouldn't get the full experience of them at that distance. This would still be fine, as long as it still proved to be better than the Sierras in the same position. I also intend to use a Sierra Horizon as a center channel as well.

I'm fully committed to buying Ascend's. But again, price is no object for which on I'd choose; only which would perform best in this scenario. I'm a 'buy something once' kinda guy, so I'd rather invest in getting the best I can once instead of leaving things to uncertainty.

Would really like a response from Dave for obvious reasons, but I appreciate any help or expertise!