High versus Low speaker positioning

[jsteinhauer]

Is there a general consensus whether positioning your right and left surround speakers high or low produces superior results, especially when your receiver is supposed to take that position into account? I am working on relocating our home theater equipment to the other end of our basement, which involves taking down and repairing some walls. I am nearing a point where I need to decide where to position the left surround speaker on the wall. My take is that the advantage to a low position is that the sound comes from the level of the viewer, but the disadvantage is that the speakers are in a location that they could be run into by human traffic that may be in the area.