Yeah - but as you move the speakers away from the wall you'll get different interference patterns with different wavelengths of the bass. Suggest some kind of experimentation here. If you have the speakers right up against the wall you get a pretty consistent reenforcement of the bass, something like 4-6db and you can adjust for this by rolling some bass off, most active monitors have a switch for this.

If you have them an arbitary distance from the wall you'll find some frequencies are louder than others. The ideal response is with the speaker in free air with no walls, or flush mounted into the wall.

I think so anyway ... there's a book, "The Master Handbook of Acoustics", but it's a bit annoyingly hardcore!