Speakers on carpet or bare floor?


I moved my floor standing bass reflex 3 ways from a bare floor to a carpeted room and noticed much softer vocals but also a softer (wooly?) bass. I have been supporting the speakers with furniture cups. Will stands firm up the bass without losing the softer edge on the vocals? You can see my system on the bare floor
under budget systems, "my NADS". Thanks
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I tried the placement formula on the Cardas web site and it worked well; not a location I would have thought of myself. Mine are also heavy and moving them isn't fun.Glass is the devil to deal with. In my active dealer days I sold a pair of B&W 801s and the buyer became convinced one was defective. I finally went to his house and the "defective" one was sitting next to a glass wall. I simply reversed the speakers and the "good" one was now "defective". Why he hadn't thought of doing this was a mystery to me. Glass is highly reflective and a really "live" room does strange things to the sound.
What Stanwal said is helpful. I don't know much about glass walls but it sounds like other frequencies may be more prominent to you now. Try to recreated the room boundaries you havd before, like similar placement from back and side walls etc. Adjust listening position too.

Move them around 6 inches at a time until you find something better, than make smaller movements. Plenty on speaker placement to be found on this site.

Sweet 24x14 sunroom!
The Cardas method is a good place to start , but you will still have to fine tune the position from there to get it just nice .
Have had a Duh! moment. I placed a thick book, simulating solid wood, under each speaker with the furniture cups in between. Ghetto technology ? Well, it's working. Bass is better disciplined and highs and mid highs are more defined. which brings me to asking, does anyone know a modest price and good looking stand for floor standers?