Flooring advice for a MKII

[jhferry]

Hi everyone,

Im moving to a new house and my HT will be in a basement. This of course means the floor is concrete. I want to carpet the concrete floor but I dont know If I want a subfloor or floating floor in there. What do you guys think?

Carpet over concrete or carpet over subfloor? Wouldnt the carpet over concrete give me more acurate acoustics?

[jhferry]

Nobody on this?

[Backlash]

I would really ask the folks at AVS in the HT construction area if you don't get any response here.

I just used carpet over concrete, but then half of the accoustics talk that goes on here is way over my head.

[jhferry]

True, I was happy enough when I felt the rumbling of the floor. Do you still get that on concrete?

[Abyss]

True, I was happy enough when I felt the rumbling of the floor. Do you still get that on concrete?
My experience with flooring is that with wood floors, even well constructed floors, you get that feeling of "the bass really kicks, it's loud and rumbles!". On concrete floors you get that "chest thumping, tight, in your throat wow bass". In other words, I find the bass to be more realistic and accurate on concrete. Right now my VTF-3 MK2 is on a concrete floor with tile, see my sig. One of these days I'll add acoustic dampening. If you like the rumble effect you can always add butt kickers. There are many articles on this and they all seem to agree that concrete is more accurate for subs. It's really a matter of what you prefer, that's what this hobby always boils down to, isn't it?

This is one of those topics that it's better to get data on rather than ask people's opinions. Just like the questions to use spike feet or not, does cable really matter, do power conditioners really work, etc...

[BradJudy]

I'm happy with my sub on carpet over concrete, but as mentioned you do not get the effect of the floor vibrating.