Leave it Open or Close it Off: A Listening/ Living Room Dilemma

I guess it depends on where the door goes, but I should think there are practical reasons outside of sound quality to have the option of a door.  If my listening room didn't have a door, my family would have hung me by now.  

My listening room is open at the back, or I suppose a better way to describe it would be a C-shaped bonus room with the listening room being the top half of the C.  Where it narrows to go to the other part of the room is open. I have found that adding a subwoofer in the back of the listening area really stabilized the bass in a way that has centered the music in the room better.  

@veerossi, not to hijack the thread, but which app do you prefer? Also, what are you doing for a white/pink noise track?

I realized I should have shared the track I’ve used, but I can’t find it. However, I did find this. Looks really useful. 

For analogue I use the old Shure Audio Obstacle Course test record. 

What's on the room floors?

when i leave the door open behind my listening position...the bass is more even as confirmed by my measurement mic. It's effectively a free full range bass trap.