Hardwood floors vs Carpet

I had to "throw" down a throw rug ( that why they calls em "throw" rugs ya know ) in between my listening seat and the speakers to calm it down a bit. It kind of defeats the idea of installing a nice hardwood floor but it works. I also added some foam treatments to the first reflection points on the ceiling and side walls. All is well now. Dale

Didn't read the above posts, however a hardwood floor will cause reflections from your speakers, if you like it or not. This will change your imaging and the definition of instruments. Try it. If you like it, fine... if not, you'll have to use the dampening effect of a rug at the critical spots.

Dekay, you are clearly and most enviably one who has been able to keep the second reflection second, even after eliminating the first.

Yep, Khrys, I'm good in math too!

You step out of one problem into another, as far as I'm concerned by going to wood floors. I have 3 houses and by far the best one is a 170 year old one with 8-12" wide plank wood floors--plus plaster and horsehair walls and not this drywall garbage. House #2 is a 25 year old brick colonial w/ 2" pine floors and drywall. There is no comparison between the two and I have things like problems w/ turntable tracking at 110 db., plus the inherent sound problems. I sure don't have that w/ the old house where the subfloor and structure is about 600% better. The wood you get today for floors is considerably worse quality and the scale of what is called excellent today was called good 20 years ago. Unless you are going to send away huge $ and get wood from brazil or something.
But I tend to think going to wood flooring is going to solve a problem and create 2 brand new ones you don't have right now.