No "Room Correction" Topic option. Why?


I wanted to pose a question on room mods but do not see a logical place
to insert it so I am going with "Speakers" as a good, wrong choice.
Moderators, can you attend to this deficiency? 

My question: I am redoing my listening room in several ways.
Not because it was bad-quite the contrary. But because the room 
was a dark hole so I bought three new windows and replacement door.
The existing wall allowed rain water in from the patio floor outside.

 I started dismantling a 20' section of wall. As I opened the wall i found the
existing base plate-not treated wood, to be dust. Then mold on the drywall.
then termite evidence. 

Once the old crap was gone, I poured a concrete base plate 20 feet and another 6 feet
on the return. Termite damage had trashed the double sill plate and parts of two joists.

With all the wiring exposed I discovered an abandoned 220 a/c line buried in the wall.
Voila!  I had 2 dedicated 110v outlets for another part of the room. 

Might as well add 5 can lights while I was at it.

I upgraded the Streaming ethernet line from cat 5 to cat 7. Might as well
since I had sawsalled thru the old line. 
Then I learned that fiber is a better bet so I will be changing that later.

Another find! A buried abandoned entry door offering a 30" x 80" x 10" shelving
opportunity! 

I started this task by removing the old carpeting.

Now to my question. 

Shall I go with new porcelain tile flooring and plan on area rug -or-
put carpet back for its superior sound absorbing properties?

I hope someone out there has been down this road and has
an experience to share?

Thank you!


chorus
In room treatment there is 3 possibilities:

You pay 50,000 dollars for an acoustically engineered room or even morre...

Or you buy costly acoustical materials and you made it yourself... But the cost will be a couple of thousand dollars mostly for quality materials.... But it will be a PASSIVE treatment made for the geometry and content of your room... (I used this passive way also but with cheap materials i dont have much money)

But if your room is not ideal, with odd dimensions and one the speaker is at an odd place in a corner (like mine), you are in a really bad shape.... :) Passive treatment work in some degree, with some limit...

But most people, dont know that it is possible to use ACTIVE controls to change the room acoustic.... Not by electronical equalizer.... But with a grid of ACTIVE generators connected to some grids of active resonators....

Then the sound image become totally holographic and completely decoupled from the speakers....

Yes it is possible, and the good news is that the cost is low....

My best to all...


@terry9 thanks so much - I shall build some panels and learn :-)

I had a great back and forth w excellent customer service and technical support at Quietrock the 545 has a 32 mil galvanized steel barrier, I will try that soon.

I think some might be missing half the point, which is the baseline noise floor of the room. 
Others here have suggested it, but I will reiterate that the most significant positive thing you can do for a room's modal distribution is to design it with modal distribution in mind.  With good H:W:D ratios you can do more to make a room sound good than any treatment added after the fact.  Way more.  Trying to fight bad room dimensions is a bandaid at best and phenomenally expensive if good.  Spend some time reading some acoustics books on studio control room design to understand how to control first order reflections without  treatment, and how to use treatment to fine-tune, not "fix" your room.  "Room correction" EQ remedies anomalies at the spot where the measurement is taken and usually makes things sound worse elsewhere.

You're in a unique position to fix your room problems at their root.  It would be a shame to just put it back together the same way and add various treatments (some which may work, some which may not) that fit a visual aesthetic when good ratios, construction, and geometry look purposeful and beautiful all by themselves.