Please comment on your experience with Plantation shutters. Yes they look great,

I have a double window (two completely seperate isolated panes mounted with a small offset between them to reduce chances of resonance in the window) with shutters in between as well. The inner window then has sound planks (three on one pane, two and a SR ART resonator and HFTs on the other) and also the large (40mm) Marigo dots on each pane

Each part helps but the main conclusion is you can (and probably should) treat a window like any other wall but obviously the end result is not going to win any interior design prizes ...

In a prior installation I lived with acres of glass and light treatment with the SR ART system and while no where near as acoustically well controlled as my current set-up it was very listenable

ps there is a fairly long track record of Marigo dots working well on exposed glass -- it can’t hurt give Ron Heydrich a call he’s a great guy and may have some good ideaas

Certainly closed or near closed wood plantation shutters is a better surface than glass for sound? Not great, but better.....

Well the only practice difference between shutters and glass, or any flat surfaced wall, is the slight curved nature of the blades will give a small but uniform  bit of diffusion. It won't diminish it - how that might sound I don't know. You are right though, it will be better than uncovered glass. If your speakers aren't hot on axis, toe in may still be the best solution

I plan on toe in for sure. My wife will not allow drapes, but she loves these expensive plantation shutters. No magic sound properties it seems! 

In my limited expertise, I think the bandwidth over which shutters diffuse is going to be fairly narrow.