Home Theatre Flooring Choices

[Pondosinatra]

I'm looking at getting my basement done in the near future. I realize the ideal is to have the home theatre in an enclosed room with suitable dimensions etc. But as the basement isn't overly large blocking off the one corner to create a room would just make the basement seem to small.

So it's going to be open concept.

The problem is I want to have hydronic heating put in the concrete slab and have it acid stained. I absolutely HATE carpet in basements (and in general). Plus I have a number of Pinball and Arcade games which would be a pain in the rear to have to move around on a carpeted floor. And flooring in other material such as wood defeats the purpose of the in floor heating as wood is an insulator.

Finally I could have just the area where the home theatre will be carpeted, but I hate rooms that transition from one floor type to the other that doesn't occur as part of a door opening ie. just one floor type meets another with no walls and door to mark the transition. (ya I know, I'm picky)

Now I've read and it pretty much makes sense that concrete would be the worst type of flooring to have in a home theatre, so I would obviously have a shag type floor rug to help soften the sound bouncing off the floor.

Has anyone had any experience with concrete floors in their home theatres?