Does carpet deaden the sound too much?

If you’re going to err on one side or the other...to me...over-damping is preferred. At least you’ll have some coherence.

In almost all cases, carpet is good to have. Only time it’s not...is if the room is overly damped...which in most cases is never the problem. In my experience, rooms are typically under-damped.

Best to treat all the frequencies evenly with a balance of diffusion and absorption.

I read this different and perhaps I have come to the wrong idea. But here it goes. I am thinking that perhaps the speakers are sitting on the carpet without spikes etc. Anytime I have just looked a set of speakers down they sound dead. I have had numerous things u set speakers cement sidewalk blocks under Maggie's, two inch think hardwood under box speakers spikes down to the floor and feet between the speakers and wood blocks. I have had steel leveling plates with hardwood blocks between the plates and the speakers. When I set a pair of speakers with down firing ports in my home theater setup. They sounded dead. I went out to my garage and picked up a couple of pieces of plywood set the speakers on the plywood much better life again. Lol that reminds me  I need to make a proper pair of hardwood plates to set those on and the beats will sing more beautifully than before. 

As I was thinking that he maybe talking about suck out because the speakers are not decoupled from the carpet. Just a thought. 

Regards Tom

Lol neats not beats. Auto correct! 

@retiredfarmer - Hi Tom
Many of us now decouple using springs, others have had success with other technologies. There are entire threads on isolation with some really positive responses.

@hiendmmoe - can you share with us some information about your room and system?
Room dimensions, any treatments used, speakers and electronics?
Genre of music most enjoyed when listening?

Yes I have a few sets of springs. Feet of silence as well as discs of silence and a spring manufacturers setup with ebony and crystal s.  I have a set of harbeth slh5 speakers. It was quite amazing how a speaker stand change made them better. The speaker stands are open and as we know with those speakers the box vibrates with the music. The also high end stands I had before the top of the stand was a full plate and the boxes didn't sound the way they were made too. In my opinion speakers are not made to sit directly on carpet for many reasons first off they are not solid in there footing set that way. The speakers have to be solid and not moving to get the correct image. Secondly the box was not designed to be set on an absorping pad. Just my thoughts. 

Regards Tom