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How much neighbor noise is acceptable?

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thirtythree

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Is it reasonable of me to expect not to hear my neighbor's subwoofer, even during the day? It's not overpowering or anything, but I can often hear it when I'm listening to my own music or watching TV. I've talked to him twice and just left a note (he didn't answer)... he'll turn it down for a while but then it returns to normal. I'm thinking I'll talk to the landlord next, but maybe I'm just expecting too much of apartment life...
 
If it's constant throughout the day, then I'd probably be a bit annoyed. However, if it's only sporadic, then I wouldn't expect much better.
 
Originally posted by: Whisper
If it's constant throughout the day, then I'd probably be a bit annoyed. However, if it's only sporadic, then I wouldn't expect much better.
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It's not constant, but it's pretty much every evening/night and sometimes earlier in the day.
 
If it's not while you're trying to sleep and it's not rattling pictures off your walls I think you're stuck living with it. It doesn't sound like he's going crazy with the volume control or playing at inappropriate times.

But if all else fails this is nothing that getting a larger subwoofer than his won't fix. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Nohr
If it's not while you're trying to sleep and it's not rattling pictures off your walls I think you're stuck living with it. It doesn't sound like he's going crazy with the volume control or playing at inappropriate times.

But if all else fails this is nothing that getting a larger subwoofer than his won't fix. 😛
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Unless he's into rap. I had a roommate in college that loved rap. He had a portable stereo in his room.....I had a Kenwood Home Theater setup connected to my computer with 500 watts of power and a 100-watt active subwoofer. I aimed it at his room and started playing some stuff with bass at 4am. He came into my room just to compliment me on the sound. 🙁 FAIL.
 
Depends on the neighborhood too. When I lived in the student ghetto, I had my custom HT system pounding tunes pretty much all day, loud enough that we could hear it outside while skating. I often had it at peak volume late at night too, since we had parties all the time. The neighbors were usually there drinking with us, so it didn't matter too much. With my current place, which is in a more family-oriented residential area, I usually use headphones, but when the speakers are on and the downstairs neighbors are home, I just cut out all the low end so they won't hear BOOM BOOM BOOM.

When they're gone though, it get LOUD 😀
 
Originally posted by: Nohr
If it's not while you're trying to sleep and it's not rattling pictures off your walls I think you're stuck living with it. It doesn't sound like he's going crazy with the volume control or playing at inappropriate times.

But if all else fails this is nothing that getting a larger subwoofer than his won't fix. 😛
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Ha, I actually have one I don't use. It doesn't seem that essential to me, and I'm sure it would disturb the person below me as well (noisy neighbor is next to me).
 
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
But if all else fails this is nothing that getting a larger subwoofer than his won't fix. 😛
Unless he's into rap. I had a roommate in college that loved rap. He had a portable stereo in his room.....I had a Kenwood Home Theater setup connected to my computer with 500 watts of power and a 100-watt active subwoofer. I aimed it at his room and started playing some stuff with bass at 4am. He came into my room just to compliment me on the sound. 🙁 FAIL.
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:thumbsup: Hah, I loved playing my music ridiculously loud in the dorms. Me and my buddy synced our stereos once and blasted it at full power. You could hear it all the way on the other side of the dorm.
 
I live in a duplex and the person across from my room turns on a techno playlist at 10am and turns it off at about midnight. I can just hear it through the wall, but dear god, how could anyone think with that crap playing?
 
Originally posted by: Zaitsev
I live in a duplex and the person across from my room turns on a techno playlist at 10am and turns it off at about midnight. I can just hear it through the wall, but dear god, how could anyone think with that crap playing?
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It's actually the same 10 second beat looped, but i dont think anyone notices
 
I work the night shift and my neighbor cuts his grass and uses his leaf blower every other day. Thast bad.
 
I used to worry about this because I figured that if I turned up my 5.1 with 100w subwoofer to the point where I was enjoying it the most I would probably be annoying my neighbors to the east. I used to think about what time of day it was but realistically I knew it might bother them even at 8:00 PM on a Saturday night.

Nowadays I almost always watch movies wearing headphones. No I don't get the awe inspiring room shaking bass, but I hear dialog better, and that's more important. Somehow my 5.1 can't put out the highs (or I can't hear them) the same as my Grado SR60's.

Currently a problem of mine is that one of the people in the apartment building to the west of me has her (in my mind I've just decided it's a woman, although I guess there's a slight chance it's a man) TV on 24/7. When she has her windows closed, it's not too much of a problem, but when they are open (and with the warm weather having started that's a lot of the time now) it's a real problem for me when I'm in my bedroom. I can virtually make out the dialog on the TV shows sometimes.
 
My roomy had a Klipsch system that ran him about 2 grand. I don't know the exact components but I knew that when i put on rap the sub would shake the entire cinderblock building. We moved it to our fraternity house for parties, you could hear the thing from a good 200yrds away clearly. No one ever complained.
 
Just be glad you don't live in the flat I live in. I can hear/feel the guy walk across the floor along as hear him talk, I can't make out the words but still able to know when he's on the phone. During the day he seems to enjoy music, loudly, which usually makes it seem like it's coming from my speakers.

Conveniently though he shares similar interests in music to me so it doesn't annoy me and he quiets down at night around the same time as me, so it works out fine. Hasn't really annoyed me, but with a different person below I probably would be pissed.
 
I once roomed with a guy who had Klipsch Concert Speakers that were so large he literally used them for room dividers. We usually kept it down but, one landlord was such a jerk, the room mate cranked them up during a party and blew out the windows and the lease at the same time.
 
I had an absolute piece of shit neighbor last year at my apartment. Some dumbass kid who thought he was still in the dorms or something and that a cranked subwoofer as early as 7am or as late as 3am at times was appropriate for an apartment. His shit was so loud at times, my roommate who was right next to my room would come in and say it sounded like the music was coming from my room. It would go for like 8 hours a day at times. Didn't he have anything better to do? And ear plugs do nothing for boomy ass bass.
 
its an apartment. there is lower standard esp with probably cheap walls and all that good stuff. even the weeniest subwoofer will make some noise through the wall.
if it happens during sleeping hours then yea complain away.
but during the day as long as it isn't really ridiculous its not something to complain about.
 
Originally posted by: thirtythree
Is it reasonable of me to expect not to hear my neighbor's subwoofer, even during the day? It's not overpowering or anything, but I can often hear it when I'm listening to my own music or watching TV. I've talked to him twice and just left a note (he didn't answer)... he'll turn it down for a while but then it returns to normal. I'm thinking I'll talk to the landlord next, but maybe I'm just expecting too much of apartment life...
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good luck. that sounds like apartment life.

the trick is persuading your neighbor to care about you &
whether or not the noise disturbs your peace.

even with a sex change operation, that may never happen.
 
Where I live the people are fairly considerate of each other.

The biggest noise problem for me is from peoples car audio.
They seem to think everyone wants to hear what they are listening to.

If it is disturbing you and he doesn't do anything to remedy the situation then call the landlord.
Personally I don't think large home theater systems have a place in the average apartment setting.
If you want to pump out 1000 watts, buy a house.

People that live in apartments need to realize that its like a small community where people need to try to get along and that means considering your neighbors. I hate when people act like they are the only ones living there.



 
Its the bass. I'd go tell my piece of crap neighbor to turn it down since the whole building was going "whump, whump, whump" and mention the bass and she'd say "its not very loud". Turn the fucking bass down, I don't care about the other part...and kill yourself.

At any rate...I moved out into the fucking country to get as far away from that shit as possible. Now I hear my neighbors lawn mowers and tractors occasionally, all at reasonable hours and maybe a coyote now and then.
 
Had a neighbor like that. Walked over and pounded on his door at 11pm when he had it cranked up, and my wife was trying to sleep. Never happend again after that. I think that a lot of times people just don't realize that you can hear it through the walls. One of those common sense things that a lot of people lack.
 
Originally posted by: effowe
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
But if all else fails this is nothing that getting a larger subwoofer than his won't fix. 😛
Unless he's into rap. I had a roommate in college that loved rap. He had a portable stereo in his room.....I had a Kenwood Home Theater setup connected to my computer with 500 watts of power and a 100-watt active subwoofer. I aimed it at his room and started playing some stuff with bass at 4am. He came into my room just to compliment me on the sound. 🙁 FAIL.
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:thumbsup: Hah, I loved playing my music ridiculously loud in the dorms. Me and my buddy synced our stereos once and blasted it at full power. You could hear it all the way on the other side of the dorm.
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When I was an RA, I had to deal with complaints about loud music when people were studying. When some asshat played their music that could be heard on the entire floor, I didn't even bother knocking on the door. I got my trusty key out, unlocked the breaker panel, and killed the power to the offender's room (I picked up that trick when someone left their room and forgot that a cassette was on auto-replay/auto other side or something like that.) That was their warning. When they stuck their head out the door, "I'll turn the power back on if you promise to keep the music to a reasonable level. Next time, the only way your power's coming back on is if you move the speakers to the office where you'll have to pick them up and take them home during the next break."
 
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