Best Flooring for Home Theater

[KingRadicalPhil]

Just vote and discuss

[drago3451]

Carpet...No echo, non-reflective, comfortable.

[Scooby Blu]

Wood with a nice thick rug placed over floor, and some plush couches and chairs to absorb the reflections. Perhaps a tapestry with a thick blanket behind it.

[prerich]

Due to the signal processing involved in HT, I would say any floor that makes your room acoustically dead (you don't want floor and sealing reflections) is the best - so I voted for carpet (my ceiling is also composed of acoustic tiles).

P.S. Remember - Vertical Dispersion is the bain of Home Theater - to be avoided at all cost!

[Djnx]

It depends on the room, but for studios common practice is: dead walls, thick wood floors. That way, the room is not acoustically dead.

I would recommend carpet walls, wood floor, kill corners with stands, DVD/CD/Book towers or better yet, with carpet. If the room has windows, they should seal, doors should be have solid wood core or thick plastic glass.

Carpet for walls should be thin. Speakers should be at ear level and with some distance from walls. Oh, and get an air conditioner system and set it to run at 21°c.

[prerich]

Originally Posted by Djnx

It depends on the room, but for studios common practice is: dead walls, thick wood floors. That way, the room is not acoustically dead.

I would recommend carpet walls, wood floor, kill corners with stands, DVD/CD/Book towers or better yet, with carpet. If the room has windows, they should seal, doors should be have solid wood core or thick plastic glass.

Carpet for walls should be thin. Speakers should be at ear level and with some distance from walls. Oh, and get an air conditioner system and set it to run at 21°c.

True a thick wood floor is not reflective (unless its polished to a shine and lacquered - haven't seen that in a studio yet) Wood in itself is a pourous material so with increasing density - it absorbs sound and becomes sonically inert or - dead. Correct me if I'm wrong - but vertical dispersion is to be avoided in home theater (no refections from the ceilings or floors). When I say acousitcally dead - I may be mistaken - I don't mean anechoic chamber dead - no one lives in one of those but I do mean free of reverberation - this is calculated in the surround sound processing. I remember owning the Fosgate Audionics THX Model 3A, Citation 7.0, 5.0, and the original Yamaha DSP1, each of these processors (to include the Lexicons ) advise for an "acostically dead" room. Even subwoofer design genrerally uses boxes designed to be inert (mine are mad of 2 inch thick MDF) - to avoid resonance. Some speakers are made to work with live rooms (direct reflecting, omni polar ect) but most HT speakers function better in dead enviornments. Sir Terence, if you are out there - teach me I just may be wrong

[hoogoosedmoose41]

Originally Posted by Djnx

It depends on the room, but for studios common practice is: dead walls, thick wood floors. That way, the room is not acoustically dead.

does the type of wood matter? say a really hard oak floor vs a softer pine?

[Canada]

From what I hear carpet is the best becase you want the bass obsorbed so it doesn't create reverberation. The person who metioned the

I'm sure you would get a lot of good info if you googled this.

But as Jackson said to Upham in Saving Private Ryan. Hey, Upham, careful you don't step in the bullsh**.

But seriously from every thing I have heared you want carpet or another surface that absorbs the sound.

Get accoustic panneling if you can if you can it absorbs the sound.

[coolmilo]

Originally Posted by drago3451

Carpet...No echo, non-reflective, comfortable.

I voted for carpet for the same reasons.

[DrinkMore]

Originally Posted by naturephoto1

I can't say color, but generally low pyle.

Rich

You mean pile.


As for carpet - http://www.flor.com - Does not get much better than that! The possibilities are endless. Durable, cost effective, green, washable and easy to put down.

[squirrel101]

i used indoor/outdoor black on my walls over styrofoam with plush burgundy on my floors nothing on the ceiling very quiet/dead and when yu are watching a movie all you see is the picture and that is also all you hear

[naturephoto1]

Originally Posted by DrinkMore

You mean pile.


As for carpet - http://www.flor.com - Does not get much better than that! The possibilities are endless. Durable, cost effective, green, washable and easy to put down.

No thats Gomer.

Rich

[Big Daddy]

Originally Posted by mattym

Sennheiser?

Originally Posted by Djnx

Shure!

Originally Posted by prerich

Grado!

AKG, Grado, Denon, Sennheiser, and Shure are for amateurs. True audiophiles prefer Stax Electrostatic Earspeaker. It is impossible not to like a $4,200 headphone. You better get very creative in explaining this to your spouse.

http://www.needledoctor.com/Online-S...tax-Headphones

[DragonSarc]

wood is ok as long as theres an area rug and couch some wood area are exposed but not like an open like a dance studio............

[Anthony P]

Definitely wood flooring like a professional studio you want those LFE subs rumbling up the floor not getting sucked up by carpet. A totally dead room is no good you want a little echo like a concert hall. If you want dead with no imaging just buy Bose speakers, he he he...

your sub should be on a procenium

Sometimes the majority is wrong this could be that case.

yes it can, but not this time