Does laminate flooring ruin HiFi acoustics?

[Prophet]

I'm planning to redecorate my living room soon. Currently I have a thick wool carpet which is great but a nightmare to keep clean. I was thinking about installing laminate flooring rather than replacing the carpet.

Will the acoustics suffer from this change?

 

[dokko]

I've heard this, but my two mates have similar setups to mine and they have a wooden floor and a laminate floor and the difference is minimal. My carpet floor sounded better, but i'd put that down to careful speaker placement and spending more money on cabling.

 

[Dr.EM]

You'll get more treble bounce from the floor, which smears the timing of the highs a little. The effect is worst with dome tweeters, whereas a long ribbon/planar tweeter would be much less affected by it. You always get these reflections from the ceiling anyhow, part of the reason ribbons tend to sound better in some ways as they have restricted vertical dispersion by nature

 

[marscay]

My carpet floor sounded better, but i'd put that down to careful speaker placement and spending more money on cabling.

Put the trumpet down, the carpet makes a hefty difference

 

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Put the trumpet down, the carpet makes a hefty difference

I think the dust mites affected the sound more than the cables

 

[mrk]

I've heard this, but my two mates have similar setups to mine and they have a wooden floor and a laminate floor and the difference is minimal. My carpet floor sounded better, but i'd put that down to careful speaker placement and spending more money on cabling.

Aye there's very little difference as long as the speakers are placed correctly and the room is the right size for them! My room WAS carpeted and then converted to good quality laminate - I saw no difference other than the need to clean the dust that gathers in the corners every other week!

Isolation/Protection is a good idea though, rather than poke holes in your floors with the spikes that come from the speakers it may be an idea to buy some feet or just bung soem cheap granite chopping boards under each speaker or £1 coins =]

I have audio serenity shoes!

 

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Very pretty Kahhahahahaahan.


I picked up some ling long wooden chunky spikes of ebay for the bottom of my equipment. No damage plus gave out a nice woody flavour to the sound

 

[9designs2]

It will add brightness and echo to the room and sound more alive, sometimes that can help a flat sounding system.... Put a big rug down if you have a problem.

 

[lucid]

...gave out a nice woody flavour to the sound

Bimey, you can taste your sounds. You must have a brilliant Hi-Fi...


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...or you're just a complete nutter ha ha ha ha ha

 

[SinaiSound]

Isolation/Protection is a good idea though, rather than poke holes in your floors with the spikes that come from the speakers it may be an idea to buy some feet or just bung soem cheap granite chopping boards under each speaker or £1 coins =]

I've put a concrete slab under each of my B&W DM605 speakers which has tightened up the bass nicely

 

[easyrider]

I installed bass traps and wall panels in my home cinema.

 

[marscay]

I think the dust mites affected the sound more than the cables

***chuckle***

Aye there's very little difference as long as the speakers are placed correctly and the room is the right size for them! My room WAS carpeted and then converted to good quality laminate - I saw no difference other than the need to clean the dust that gathers in the corners every other week!

No

It will add brightness and echo to the room and sound more alive, sometimes that can help a flat sounding system.... Put a big rug down if you have a problem.

Yes

 

[mrk]

No what exactly?

Vague post is Vague.