Room is way too bright.

@8th-note

I really like your approach!

As noted by others, reflections come from the walls and also the ceiling and floor.

If you want to minimise the accoustic mess created by different length reflection paths, use speakers with a minimal number of crossovers and separated drivers.  Think point-source, or an approximation of it.

That way the reflections are at least coherent, making it much easier for your ear/brain to hear through to the music.

As Magnepans essentially don’t radiate to the sides, I’ve found them to be much more forgiving of rooms with glass on the sidewalls.

I can open my blinds all the way and the sound is still good, just a bit “lighter” in tonality.

I can vouch for that Magnepan comment. I have some Magnepan Minis in a 10 x 13 x 8 open room. I have a CD rack near the left speaker and a huge TV placed on the floor of the right speaker. If I used non-Magnepan speakers in this space it would be crazy reflective and fatiguing. The Mini sound very good in this compromised space and the only speaker that I have owned that I do not worry so much about the first reflections.

Window tinting is effective in bright rooms.

My primary listenings system is in a room that also has a projection TV.  I solved both issues in regard to the one wall that is floor to ceiling windows by having some acoustic curtains made up that both make the room dark for viewing and damp reflections for listening.