Hardwood floors vs carpets

I’m lovin’ my latest stereo room. A new house. Purpose-built room. Hardwood floors. High quality drywall walls and ceiling. Careful speaker placement. Ninety percent of the damping derives from several thousand LPs lining the walls and a nicely stuffed listening chair.  And oh yeah, the walls between the rooms are filled with sound deadening.  Room doors are chosen for their sound deadening, as well.

stretch -- one of the magical things about what happens when you fit an LP inside a square cardboard jacket and put a bunch of 'em edgewise into bookcases is that very little of the disk is actually close enough to the out-facing edge to harden those lovely tube-generated sound waves.  But yeah, you're right.  When I finished converting the discs to mp3's, I used the LPs themselves to construct a condo for my pet pooch.