Hardwood floors vs carpets

Area rug in front of speakers /listening area. Hardwood floor typically makes for a live/hot room.Easy to get a balance of hot/damping. Looks much nicer than carpet.

At least another sub-get 3. Significant upgrade.

Ceiling damping is a huge. Color matched damping panels make for less intrusive "audio geek" appearance.

carpet over concrete

every time

Glad to hear you're enjoying the new home. It's been my experience, it helps.  Even different types of carpet sound different. 

I use 8x10 indoor / outdoor, 20.00 usd each, in my shop.
When I set it up for sound, not work. Tames it down a bit. I roll them up when I'm done.

Hard wood floors are hardwood (sounds funny), BUT  there are  HDF (high density fiber) and or composites, that are just as dense.  If you have stem walls or slab, that can make a difference too, on carpet or not to carpet.

Hard to cover beautiful (NEW) hard wood floors. Very nice area rug to test maybe. Have the partner thing to consider? Folks will chime in.. Room treatment comes in all forms, but you sure need it.. Now is the
best time, maybe no need for rugs / carpet at all..

Enjoy 

Regards

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.

Rug. If you do carpet over hardwood don't let anyone find out about it. Ever.

Edcyn440 question are the albums inside the covers?  LOL 

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.

I prefer the combination of both carpet (rug) with hardwoods. You can tailor your needs with larger rug or smaller but get the advantage of the look and some of the sound hardwoods allow in a room.