Question concerning Floors
Paul Connor
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Looking for some feedback from ya'll about carpeting vs. hardwood floors for sound. I just moved my 1.2's into a new house will all hardwood floors. With the move I haven't had time to give them a good listen. Don't know just yet if I will put in carpet or not. Comments? Suggestions?
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I just put on some old Dylan acoustic and I can hear some echo. I am leaning toward carpet, but these floors look soooo good. May look into an large area rug. Thanks.
P.S. My Polks wil never leave me, but has anybody heard Magnepans or single drivers in a similar room?
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My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
Tough to loose that "church echo" without a rug.
Unless your gal is willing to let you eat peanuts and throw the shells on the floor,
in which case you should have a sufficient covering in a year or so, sooner if
you invite us all over and provide adequate refreshments (read beer), shelling peanuts
is hard work after all.
Even with the rug, it took some large furniture to really get a good sound, but not all furniture is musical, hold open auditions, and...
-Luc
so true...so true
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk
In the room where my 1.2TL's are set up, I have hardwood floors and 10' ceilings, but I don't get as much echo as you might think. The front of the room is three sides of a rectangle. The rear of the room is three sides of a hexagon. Non-parallel walls and rough-textured wall finish help out a lot. If I am standing up in the room or in an adjacent room, I hear a very slight echo. It's sort of like the echo "clings" to the original sound instead of being distinct from it. If I am sitting in front of the speakers I am not aware of an echo.
Even if you have a room that echos like the Grand Canyon, room treatments can tame it down. But then, with room treatments, the pesky "wife acceptance factor" can come into play.
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