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Haha so apparantly ppl upstairs can hear me

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When I was an apartment dweller, nothing...and I mean nothing, would piss me off more than hearing my neighbors. If you are playing your music loud, using a subwoofer, or blasting your TV in an apartment you are an inconsiderate douche. Plain and simple.
 
TechAZ said:
When I was an apartment dweller, nothing...and I mean nothing, would piss me off more than hearing my neighbors. If you are playing your music loud, using a subwoofer, or blasting your TV in an apartment you are an inconsiderate douche. Plain and simple.
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Perhaps it was the time of the month for you? Grow a pair. Let them know so they can stop instead of giving yourself an ulcer. What's with this atot attitude that ppl are out there to make your lives miserable? No one wants to bother ppl on purpose. Let's be honest... if nothing would piss you off more than that then perhaps you have more important things to worry about than other ppl's subwoofers... like not popping that throbbing vein in your head?
 
iamanidiot said:
Perhaps it was the time of the month for you? Grow a pair. Let them know so they can stop instead of giving yourself an ulcer. What's with this atot attitude that ppl are out there to make your lives miserable? No one wants to bother ppl on purpose. Let's be honest... if nothing would piss you off more than that then perhaps you have more important things to worry about than other ppl's subwoofers... like not popping that throbbing vein in your head?
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You just don't get it, do you? You are a horrible person for being heard by others.
 
TechAZ said:
When I was an apartment dweller, nothing...and I mean nothing, would piss me off more than hearing my neighbors. If you are playing your music loud, using a subwoofer, or blasting your TV in an apartment you are an inconsiderate douche. Plain and simple.
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Well, if you live in an apartment building, you'll simply have to accept that you might hear your neighbors sometimes. Modern buildings are better insulated, but it's still unavoidable when you live so close to other people. Many older buildings have paper-thin walls so you can basically hear your neighbor sneeze. It's always going to be a compromise. You accept some sounds coming through from their place at reasonable hours, and they in turn accept some from yours. Can't ask of your neighbors to always use headphones when watching TV.

Neighbors that complain about every single little noise are almost as annoying as those who play loud music or re-arrange their furniture in the middle of the night.

As for sound systems, you don't really need a subwoofer for good quality audio. There are many systems that provide excellent sound quality without being overly bass-heavy. The bass, and especially sub-bass is what gets through walls.

/Apartment dweller since 2002 and no plans to change that. One job is enough, I'm not going to pay for a second one (house).
 
this is one of the reasons me and the wife rented a house and not an apartment lol

subwoofers will get ya heard quick!
 
Check said:
When you are young and fresh out of college, apartment living is pretty much the only choice. I'm lucky enough to be in a concrete building so I can't hear my neighbors and they can't hear me, so I can turn my tunes up and enjoy guilt free.
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Yes. I laso lived an apartment after college. I also didn't make myself heard.
 
iamanidiot said:
I was blasting my music earlier since I didn't think anyone can actually hear me from my apt (It's a brick three story twin unit with large walls inbetween). Anyways, I barely exhausted my loudness capacity (-34db) and the people upstairs started jumping to let me know that the music was getting through. I loves my receiver and subwoofer lol.
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seems like having a nice sound system in a shared complex is silly, and using it is rude if its going to annoy neighbors seriously

/wireless headphones, perhaps?
 
I had a neighbor downstairs who used to play salsa music so loud that I could watch water in a glass ripple in my apartment. I went down there to ask him to turn it down, and he said it's not very loud and I shouldn't be able to hear it.

That's when I decided to buy a house...
 
iamanidiot said:
Perhaps it was the time of the month for you? Grow a pair. Let them know so they can stop instead of giving yourself an ulcer. What's with this atot attitude that ppl are out there to make your lives miserable? No one wants to bother ppl on purpose. Let's be honest... if nothing would piss you off more than that then perhaps you have more important things to worry about than other ppl's subwoofers... like not popping that throbbing vein in your head?
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Honestly, some people just don't give a sh!t if their neighbors can hear them. I've had multiple instances where I've spoken directly to the person, they apologized, etc., but nothing changed. I've also heard of many other situations where the person receiving the complaint couldn't care less (i.e., "it's not my problem that you can hear me, live with it").

Bottom line, if you live in an apartment, it's partially your responsibility to ensure you're being considerate of your neighbors. If everyone did this, apartment living wouldn't be nearly as horrendous as it often is.

And no, no one in an apartment building should be using a subwoofer. My former building was entirely concrete (built in the 60's)--floors, ceilings, walls, everything. And the very first time my downstairs neighbor used his subwoofer, it literally shook the walls in my bathroom. There's absolutely no need for that, regardless of what time of day it might be.

I will agree with you that sometimes the person simply doesn't know they're being loud. However, if--after either having a neighbor or the leasing office ask you to turn it down--you continue to play music at that same level in the future, you're a dick, plain and simple.
 
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My downstairs neighbor and I have a standing agreement that we'll let each other know if we are too loud. I tried my new HT out a while back (Polk Monitor 70's/CS2, BIC F12 sub) on Mission Impossible II and he said he couldn't hear it.

At reference level.

I think he was just being nice.., because there's no way...
 
iamanidiot said:
Is that right? Idk but it seems douchebaggy to jump the gun.... But that's just my very valid opinion. Hell I figure that the guy blasting music because he thought the place was sound deadening but turned it down upon complaint is less douchebaggy than some actual douche bag who assumes the first guy was doing it "without consideration for others". Hell I consider it asinine to put words in other people's mouth but that's just me...

I'm an audiophile and love higher end sound equipment. I will own a subwoofer regardless of my living situation but that doesn't mean it will be heard by other people. I ask my roomies if they can hear my shit and tune my volume according to that. In this particular instance no one else was home and I assumed that no neighbors would be able to hear it because of the building type and the fact that I never heard my neighbor's music before (I can hear their music if I am outside though).

If that is too much for you and you'd rather stick to your black and white thinking about who should and should not own a subwoofer then may Dick Cheney shoot you in the face multiple times.
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Okay, Mr. Audiophile who was in need of a cheap chinese amp just a little more than a year ago for his apartment (LMFAO): http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=323256

I will attempt to explain it to you.
1. Apartment buildings generally aren't built to deaden the bass from subwoofers, especially between floors.
2. If your upstairs neighbors can stomp on their floor loud enough for you to hear it over your cranked music, then you are NOT insulated from them very much. And, if not, you probably should have realized this long before now.
 
I've never understood the base fetish.

I live in a 2-family house. my upstairs neighbor is 90-something years old and about 80% deaf, but still, it's pretty rare for me to have the tv or music turned above a speaking volume. the only real exception I can think of is when I'm listening to the radio while doing dishes. I crank it a bit so I can hear it over the noise from the faucet.
 
Chaotic42 said:
I had a neighbor downstairs who used to play salsa music so loud that I could watch water in a glass ripple in my apartment. I went down there to ask him to turn it down, and he said it's not very loud and I shouldn't be able to hear it.

That's when I decided to buy a house...
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I hear pouring ammonia under the door will fix that problem 😉
 
NYC has a law now against bass that can felt. People call the police to complain about noise late at night (mostly bars I guess), but the law on the books must have only defined loud noise by db level. This law was enacted shortly after I moved out of an apartment above a lounge that had the music going pretty lout until 1 or 2AM, at which point they start to turn it down. I complained a few times to no avail. The manager who was working there when I first moved in was shot and killed a couple of months after I arrived. I didn't do it.
 
iamanidiot said:
I was blasting my music earlier since I didn't think anyone can actually hear me from my apt (It's a brick three story twin unit with large walls inbetween). Anyways, I barely exhausted my loudness capacity (-34db) and the people upstairs started jumping to let me know that the music was getting through. I loves my receiver and subwoofer lol.
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Out of the thousands of reasons apartments are shit, this is the top one for me. If I'm watching Ironman on my home theater, that shit is getting cranked up and anyone who doesn't like it can suck it.
 
dainthomas said:
David Tennant. And he plays movies in the Tardis as loud as he wants. 🙂




Don't get your panties in a twist. I have a house because I grew weary of whiny bitches.
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You were whining like a bitch 4 posts earlier. Hate to tell you but people who think they can do whatever they want on property they don't own are the real bitches.
 
bigdog1218 said:
You were whining like a bitch 4 posts earlier. Hate to tell you but people who think they can do whatever they want on property they don't own are the real bitches.
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Hence why I live in a house (reading is fun!). If people (like myself) don't like living in an apartment and having to put up with whiny neighbors, then they educate and make themselves successful enough that they can afford a house and not have to deal with it. This also goes for the aforementioned whiners. You don't like constant noise? Move or STFU.
 
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