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How to fix this?

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Need help. I recently had my basement listening room 25'L x 13.5'W x 7' H recarpeted with pile carpet and a 1/2"+ thick pad underlayment (over concrete). The room has contrete and wood paneling and is treated with diffusors and absorbers in critical locations.

The problem - the room is now acoustically less warm and more dead. Bass response that was measurable to below 20Hz now sounds less extended, even and natural. There is less ambience at higher frequencies. I'm listening at 2-3 dB louder levels. I'm not sure I like it. A picture of the general layout is here before the job was done:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vaslt&1182722398&read&3&4&

As you can see, the room was previously carpeted with a thin, wool, short-pile rug and no pad (but was ugly red!). The pile wasn't so high.

Can I solve the problem by removing the pad under the carpet? I could also tile about 50 sq ft of the back of the room. Would that help too?

Desperate in Philly, Barry

Follow Ups:

RE: How to fix this? - Ethan Winer 09:56:33 07/07/08 (0)
RE: How to fix this? - David Aiken 18:49:57 07/06/08 (2)
- RE: How to fix this? - Barry 04:43:14 07/08/08 (1)
  - RE: How to fix this? - David Aiken 18:40:12 07/08/08 (0)

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