Can I Live With A Hardwood Floor?

I have maggies and no rug behind them - any bipolar speaker should have a fair amount of diffusion behind it for best sound.

My "Persian" rug is not as large as I might like but has been in the family for 3 generations.  If it extends beyond a line drawn between you and each speaker (a triangle) that should be fine.

For high freq.a, which are the issue here, you can just use ray tracing to analyze the room.  More info is in the master Handbook of Acoustics, which every audiophile should read a couple of times...

@goofyfoot to your original question you should have no problem with hardwood floors as long as you treat them with rugs as others have suggested. Make sure to use a natural wool rug, probably not too thick. Synthetic rugs sound terrible - I thought I could save a few bucks but they really don’t work

Personally I pefer not having the rug under the speakers, it makes it easier to use whatever spikes or other isolation device you prefer (I use the Tonwnshend podiums). My current setup has two 4x6 rugs that fill the space between speaker and listening seat and extend a few feet beyond the edge of each speaker. 

Thanks folk freak your suggestions help significantly however wool rugs are too expensive (based on my knowledge) for my current budget however other organic fibers can be found. So I'll keep visiting Craig's List in hope of finding a good deal.
geoffkait. I'm not too savvy on the nature of how Akiko designs there products. Me and science are like oil and water. Here's a statement from their site;
'The recently developed energetic Tuning Chips are able to harmonise energy currents in places that were previously inaccessible to our other tuning products. The Chip is able to do this by permanently applying harmonising energy there where the Chip has been placed. This improves the signal transmission.'

Thanks again Randy for clarifying

@goofyfoot Thanks for info on Akiko Chips. I guess they prefer not to come right out and say they’re quantum mechanical as it might scare away potential customers. Can’t say I blame them. 😀