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
garn509

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I use a Mac and haven't seen those, sometimes the method I use, either cut and paste or copy gives links and sometimes it doesn't. 70 is in my rear view mirror.
I should have said that I think good stands with spikes will greatly improve your bass. There are cups you can put under the spikes to protect the floor, probably not necessary with rugs. Here is a more exact referral.

http://www.oregondv.com/Floor_Standing_Speaker_Stands.htm
I really like the looks of these stands; I have similar ones on my GamuT L5s.

http://www.oregondv.com/index.html
I tried to but some of us old farts aren't as computer literate as you young sprats.
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.