I dont have a dedicated HT room and use my Lounge room. I need desperately to get rid of the 'dead' carpet. The base is a concrete slab and I wanted to replace the carpet with a floating wooden floor. Now, I could get the concrete slab polished but I dont think it would suit and I am not very keen on the idea in any case.
Next question is, of course, how will a floating wooden floor affect the acoustics in the room? I am not a HT fanatic or a qualified sound engineer as many on this site seem to be but I do appreciate my HT setup and have no idea what effect making the change from carpet to wood will have on my listening experience in technical terms.
In laymans terms I expect the change will make the sound bounce all over the place so I need some ideas on what I can do to improve it once the new floor is down or a real good reason for not going with wood
I would obviously need to add more sound absorbing material and scatter rugs are the obvious answer. Positioning of those rugs is another question but it seems immediately in front (and underneath?) of the front speakers is a first point of 'contact'.
A large rug in the centre of the room would make obvious asthetic and possibly acoustic sense also?
BTW: The room has 8 foot pleasterboard ceilings and plasterboard walls.
The room is not quite rectangular and has a slight 'L' shape however the small area of the 'L' is lined with a solid timber bookcase (full of books of course) with cupboards under) and my HT equipment is in a sold timber wall unit opposite but still in the 'small L'. The sound is dispersed along the length of the recangular area of the room with the short walls at either end of the room having full windows with heavy drapes at the "sending end" and a light blind at the "receiving end" of the room. Reas surround speakers are mounted high on the walls on either side of the listening area just behind the seating.
I hope all ofthe above makes sense?
Any comments or suggestions regarding the flooring ideas and the room would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Andrew