How good can it get, really? - my stereo sounds amazing!

Back at you, Paulgardner. 
4. My speaker cables are lessloss c-Marc. I think highly of them. Check their website — they are quite unique..  Their footers (Bindbreakers) are also highly effective.  
5.  Whether room treatments would help depends on your room. (Duh ...). Books and carpets, books and carpets. Move the furniture around some. Everything else is voodoo, or can be mostly fixed by moving your speakers around. 
6. The floor between your speakers and in front of you r components is very sensitive.  Worth experimenting with it. I got a very clear improvement by placing a teak chest full of books in that location. Much improved sound staging. . 
7. Try shutting down youR power bar or power conditioner when the system isn’t in use. Also, try spraying down the cabling with an anti static,

which sort of makes my point. There is a lot of experimenting that can be done for little or no money.. .   

No point around here isn’t worth missing it seems...If your room doesn’t need treatment because its inherent acoustics are fine...not dead, but fine...it might even sound like a room, then don’t worry about it. If you live in a large tomato can or a raw concrete bunker you might need some treatment...in that case treat it. Moss...grow moss. I’ve worked in recording studios and mixed live shows for decades, and I prefer less dead rooms. Removing furniture and CD boxes and replacing everything with sound deadening "treatments" is simply silly, and if you experience a weirdo with cheap headphones without ear pads listening to a walkman in your room, that’s geoffkait...remove him...the sound will improve immediately.

Somebody is having a Machina Dynamica moment. 

taras22
I agree that carefully selected furniture can help, but this is no substitute for good quality acoustic treatments. Most I build myself, but I did recently buy some of the best quality diffusors for a song and was very impressed. If you have the ability to DIY, then treatment doesnt cost much.

audiozenology"Furniture is not a replacement for room treatment. It can even make things worse"

This "information" is so wrong on so many levels, aspects, and issues that it is hard to know where to begin a good place would probably be that furniture is a kind of room treatment even if that is not the type that you like! Some people "like" the sort of sculpted "egg-cartons" and other "doo-dads" that often is used in official, commercial purpose designed "room treatment" but none of these "treatments" contain any magic, fairy dust, or voo-doo spells and there is nothing worse and I do mean nothing than an overdamped, overtreated, over analyzed room and that is very common when relying on these "professionally-approved" commercial products because the company’s often want to sell you just one more "corner trap" or special "diffusor" thingie so whether using these products or furniture you’re room can be "over-done."