I am about to buy Beolab 90 and I would like to know if thick carpet on a concrete floor is okay or I need to remove the carpet and install maple hardwood floor? Carpet cause absorption, hardwood cause reflection? What would be the best for quality of sound?
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Carpet, with out a doubt! It made my living room sound waaaay better and it’s only a thicker area rug. Your walls and ceiling will reflect more than enough, but the bl90’s can tune them selves to mitigate that. Even so, carpet and or soft surfaces help a room out tremendously🙂
Why everyone advocates for hardwood floor. Is not true that carpet absorbs high and middle range frequencies and makes room sound dead? Thanks for your prompt response
I guess, but what do these people put on they’re walls and ceiling? There will be plenty of surface in your room that will reflect sound. The best room for speakers imo is a room that sounds dead so that the speakers/music make the room come alive. But that’s not very liveable. So work back from that principle to where it’s acceptable to live in and you’ll have a better sounding room. A buddy of mine has 90’s too and he said his area rug also made a noticeable improvement in his room. He too had hardwood floors and mostly bare walls and ceiling. You maybe don’t “have to” carpet all the way, but it does make the room sound better if it’s already there. There’s a reason why recording/sound rooms are padded all the way and everywhere. 😎
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