Noise Complaints

[Insomniator]

I don't understand how apartment complexes don't have noise proofing. Or is there just no material that can keep apartments isolated like that? I know the bass would be impossible but for everything else at least come on.

Also you are an idiot if you expect no noise at noon living in an apartment. You are also an idiot for having a surround system with a subwoofer on the 3rd floor of an apt.

 

[nerp]

You are assuming that your neighbors sleep at night.
Any noise that leaves your apart,emt and enters mine pisses me off. If im on night shift and sleeping at noon then doubly so. I'd knock on your door first though. I'm sure the thought of ever seeing me in my boxers again would keep you from turning the sound up again.

You never know. . . The thumping might get loud on purpose!

 

[nerp]

I don't understand how apartment complexes don't have noise proofing. Or is there just no material that can keep apartments isolated like that? I know the bass would be impossible but for everything else at least come on.

Depends on where you live. Some apartments are in 100-year-old buildings in old towns and cities. It's hard to retrofit.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I actually left a nice apartment complex because homeboy below me thumped his subwoofer at all times of the day and night. I work rotating shifts, so there were times that I was sleeping during the day. Kind of hard to do when the floor is vibrating. The apartment management didn't care much, so I moved out when my lease was up. I have a home theater with a powered sub, but I rarely used it.

I'm in a townhouse now and I'm still a little hesitant to really use the sub. Although it seems like they got the sound deadening right. I have yet to hear my neighbors.

I'm glad my situations have allowed me to go rather crazy with the HT stuff even though I've lived in apartments and townhouses.

I need to take some better pictures now that I've cleaned up this room

 

[nerp]

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[nerp]

R you reading this thread on that TV?

 

[moshquerade]

OH YES! YES YES YES YES YEEEEES!

they can.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

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[ravana]

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+1000

I love the inline images, but can't stand the 1920x1600 or whatever images.

 

[nerp]

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You fixed it. And can I come over for movie night?

 

[PingSpike]

Depends on where you live. Some apartments are in 100-year-old buildings in old towns and cities. It's hard to retrofit.

My experience has been those old ass buildings have better sound proofing. I don't know if the old ass trees that were used to build them or the brick or something about the insulation does it, but they usually block sound pretty well. I remember our upstairs neighbors used to get in screaming matches at 3am once a week and if I turned on a fan it was gone. Assuming I even woke up.

But I lived in a newer building later and everything just went through the walls. My theory is cheap ass contractors don't put in any sound proofing because by the time its realized that its a huge problem they're already long gone. But I think landlords would suffer a lot less issues if builders went apeshit on sound proofing on apartment buildings. If some one is getting axe murdered next door I don't want to hear about it until I read the morning paper.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My experience has been those old ass buildings have better sound proofing. I don't know if the old ass trees that were used to build them or the brick or something about the insulation does it, but they usually block sound pretty well. I remember our upstairs neighbors used to get in screaming matches at 3am once a week and if I turned on a fan it was gone. Assuming I even woke up.

But I lived in a newer building later and everything just went through the walls. My theory is cheap ass contractors don't put in any sound proofing because by the time its realized that its a huge problem they're already long gone. But I think landlords would suffer a lot less issues if builders went apeshit on sound proofing on apartment buildings. If some one is getting axe murdered next door I don't want to hear about it until I read the morning paper.

You'd think they'd have a building code for that. Minimum R value between apartments. If it's two brick walls with a small air space it would probably work well.

Also older buildings probably use asbestoes more. While that stuff may be a hazard it works wonders.

 

[TridenT]

... some people work at night and sleep during the day? some people have babies that need to nap? some people would like a little peace in their own damn apartment?

like have some respect for the people who live around you.

oh, but that never comes across anyone's mind, thus your argument is INVALID! :twisted: D:

 

[nickbits]

appartment + surround sound do not mix

 

[torpid]

I don't understand how apartment complexes don't have noise proofing. Or is there just no material that can keep apartments isolated like that? I know the bass would be impossible but for everything else at least come on.

You have too much faith in rental companies. You're lucky if they even built the place to code and maintain it properly. No way you can expect them to put in good sound insulation. I'd be surprised if they even put in enough fire barrier to meet code in most places.

 

[edro]

File a noise complaint against them every time you get one.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

You fixed it. And can I come over for movie night?

Sure, you're welcome to come over some time.

 

[gorcorps]

If you want to be noisy, don't live in an apartment.

Uh... no. If you don't want to HEAR noise, then you don't live in an apartment. They're noisy by nature so this guy should piss off if he expects anything different.