My new apartment, specially the living room, has tiles on the floor.
For now, I find the sound less lively vs the one I had before, where I had floating floor.
I have no issues, but the sound has less presence.
I am thinking on clipping some hard wood parquet on it. Anyone has experience on both floors difference?
The other fact is that the living room is bigger now, from 18 m2 before to 25 m2 now.
Everybody reaches a point in life where the answer is SBLâs.
Iâm not sure if adding parquet will help.
What happen when you move the speakers forward in the room and perhaps a bit closer together?
There seems to be someone attempting to escape from the room FR.
I would not cover those tiles with another type of flooring myself. Why not just look around for a bigger rug with underlay? I did this last year in my apartment, lots of options out there.
FR, didnât you have some kind of butcher block under your speakers at the old place? Is there a reason you are not using them in the new room?
From the pic, more 
I tried different positions, giving more space for the left speaker improved things.
Then my system was only working again since 1hour half, I will try today.
They were ugly. But yes, I thought about that too. I will try some butcher blocks later. Good idea.
Why your rug is so depressing ? Are you a pessimist danish expatriate in Canada guy?
Glad the move went well FR.
Rug over tiles here. With a thick felt underlay it made a decent difference.
No, just very neutralâŚnot flashy.
An even better solution if you can get it by the design committee, is to add some proper acoustic panels. This would have a far better impact on sound & if done properly wouldnât need to worry about whatâs on the floor. Adding a thick carpet, drapes, etc just removes the highest of frequencies, this is not what you actually want to do.
FR, be very careful with âfloating floorâ options, as there are variables in this path:
1- how level is your existing tiled floor, and is there underfloor heating?
2- if itâs not âlevelâ, it may require a skim of âself-levelling compoundâ to do this, but beware the limitation of any underfloor heating, which may preclude this.
3- some installers now use a ~2mm membrane under floating wood floors, which has bounce. Placing 'speakers on this may not be the best for them.
4- as others have said, many wood floors are >12mm (more 14mm for the better ones) + underlay/membrane, so doors will need to be trimmed, thresholds changed with slight steps and trims.
Itâs not hard, itâs not cheap, and has secondary impacts, not always good for hi-fi IME.
If you have the space, the room treatment panels and rugs are far better things to do â and youâll probably end up putting rugs over a wood floor to protect it, especially the walking zones.
Iâve had both types of floor FR. I think tiles are okay and perhaps can be best as long as there is something to dampen the early reflections. I notice your carpet is longwise (I have the exact same IKEA carpet BTW and had it in front of my system for 10 years - itâs in the hallway now). Sideways to actually cover the area in front of the speakers would be my preference.
Iâd consider that the âlivelinessâ you experience may not have a single cause. The floor isnât the only thing that changed. Generally, as softer furnishing increase in a room in the months after a move and artwork goes on the walls, curtain go up etc, things sound dramatically different.
Sprung wooden floor was the most problematic. Not too bad tonally, but footfall caused the whole system to wobble.
If it was me, Iâd not destroy the room for the sake of the hifi. Iâd re-orientate the carpet and just finish your interior how you like it and see what the outcome is. But remember, it is unrealistic to expect the system in a new room to sound the same. Different isnât always better or worse. Sometimes different is just different. Take some time to get used to the new presentation before deciding whethere there is a problem to be fixed.
@feeling_zen has some excellent advice @frenchrooster .
Much experience methinks.
Are your speakers placed close to the wall previously? Personally I would push the speakers out from wall boundaries. Rug will make a difference but it wonât be significant unless you pick a thicker one, and a larger piece. Instead of 1.7m x 2.4m, go with larger 2.0m x 3.0m or 2.5m x 3.5m etc.
Very decent means clear uplift or just a little ?
Wise Zen words FZ. I had three layer carpets before, as in the pic.
Finally I put just the IKEA one, near the sofa. Better now.
The left speaker more to the right, and both with more space vs the wall. Better.
I have now to connect the power cords in the right phase, check the burndys not touching, put the paintingsâŚ.
To continue
Between the two Iâd say. I wouldnât go back, and itâs good enough not to need anything else doing or adding to be an enjoyable listening environment
You have only just moved in. I would see how things go before ripping the floor up. The tiles look pretty well laid from the pics.
You could look at other room treatments such as bass traps and panels to mitigate reflection points.
Would be less hassle and cheaper than replacing floors with more effect on sound.
