Carpet or hardwood flooring

[comeup]

My wife is bugging me about new carpet in our family home theatre room, but i'm considering hardwood because I love the way it looks. I wonder how much it would effect the sound in my room I've heard negative things about hardwood flooring. what ever I do is a done deal and will have to live with it.



does anyone have hardwood ?



any suggestions please

[aud19]

There's always a throw rug and/or big puffy ottomans, bean bag chairs etc to help reduce reflections.... One of our members recently installed cork flooring in his 2-ch room which is a sort of a happy medium between wood floorings appearance/cleanabilty and carpet's sound absorption.

[comeup]

I'll take that into consideration Jason



so there is ways of helping out the hardwood flooring


thanks

[slayer]

I have hardwood in my room and used to have carpet. It was far better with the carpet but is not an issue with the hardwood either. I used a big thick rug between the couch and the display/ front speakers and it made a huge difference. The bass in my room is much better for theater since switching to hardwood and really transfers into the couch. Who needs Butt Kickers? Overall, I like the room better now but it's not a dedicated room either. When I build my dedicated room, it will be carpet for sure. I will just have hardwood accents all over the room as well as the stage.

[Leef DaLucky]

I have hardwood right now, too.
it's not too bad but i think i'll have to get an area rug, soon, on it.
(I'll use the mirror trick to see where it should start/stop).
EXCELLENT idea with the cork.
I've been looking into this as well. Seems like the way i'd like to go in the future.
i have 4 cats who all like to lounge in the theater with me.
I'm allergic to them so the dander always seems to hit me in the face.
With cork, i could keep it a lot cleaner and still have subtle textures in the flooring itself to help diffuse the sound out.
good job boys.
now i wonder how much more money cork is over hardwood?

cheers and happy hoho.
Mikey

[KeithM]

Carpet still has better acoustic properties. IP think that's what you should get. As for wood floor making bass "feelable", you might want to get a wood underfloor and then carpet on top.