I can prove your room is bad

I don't. My speakers sound a lot better at the listening chair.

Which is in agreement with:

The difference between what you hear sitting in front of the speaker like this, and what you hear at your normal location is all in the speaker dispersion and room acoustics.

And based on the conditional recommendation:

If you feel mesmerized, entranced, and wowed by your speaker at 2' but not 8' you really should consider improving the room

This method does not demonstrate a need for you to improve the room.  You pass. 

" This method does not demonstrate a need for you to improve the room. "

Looking at Ralph’s observation that his speakers sound better at the listening chair through an alternative lens:

Ralph’s Classic Audio T-3 horn loudspeakers generate a spectrally correct reverberant field, which makes a beneficial contribution at the listening chair.

I’m not saying this is the ONLY beneficial thing going on at a normal listening distance in this case, but imo it is one of them.

Duke

@Fuzztone

I think my room above the garage sounds pretty good, but I'm not thrilled that my listening couch is up against the knee wall with a sloped ceiling above my head. But I can set up my Maggies 4 feet from the wall, 8 feet apart and 11 feet from my listeni couch. All things considered it still sound pretty good

Watch "Magnepan .7's & audio system" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/WmHjTmDRO88

Room treatment... oh what a can of worms this forum has opened upon me. I spend hours researching this topic now, so many varied opinions.

I’ve spent hours already at a friends cabinet making factory, cutting up logs of cherry wood and gluing them together and planing them down to 5 foot long sheets of 1/2" x 8 sides, 4 tops and 4 bottoms, and 60 x 1/4" sheets.. and another 60 x 1/2" to cap the wells. All of which I haven’t even assembled yet. To make just 4 of these QRD17 diffusers, and I’ve never in my life even heard what a QRD diffuser does!

This is a crazy experiment...

Has anyone here used Stillpoints - Aperture II Acoustic Panel ??
Before I go experimenting some more... aaagh

And by the way, this has been a fun and witty thread, without getting aggressive.

@erik_squires The room is essential gear.

Marriage prevents me from adding panels and I image they would add quite a shine. 

When the curtains are closed the sound is much better.