Soundproofing Hi-Rise Apt?

The first thing might be to find out who is the real complainant. If the sound is getting to them via the building structure, rather than through/around the door, you have few practical solutions. If it is via the door, sealing it helps but a double structure like an additional door, a drape or, at best, building a vestibule around it will be even more effective.

My experience was that sealing the door was an entirely adequate solution except for those times that I intentionally blasted the system. But that was only briefly and at a reasonable hour. OTOH, my listening room abuts no other apartments, except above and below, and my building is solid, reinforced concrete. That really helps (except when you want to do any inwall wiring!).

Have you thought of something like Aura Bass Shakers? Not exactly audiophile but for theater, they would work great instead of a sub. That way only your furniture shakes....

The only way to solve this problem is the staple of problem-fixes. The Party.

You will need at LEAST 4 Kegs of beer, a stocked liquer cabinet, 50 close buddys(one of them must be referred to as "Animal"), a few pounds of coke, a donkey, and a bunch of girls pretending to be strippers so they can infiltrate your party and find out if there guys are fooling around.
Then, make sure you pull plenty of pranks on the complaining resident and management, get them lumped together somehow and be sure to involve the donkey.

After much madness, and drunken confusion, your problems will surely somehow get resolved in the mist of the mayhem.

This is bound to work, just check out all of the national lampoons movies and the Belushi animal house movies. Bachelor Party with tom hanks is also good study material.

Good luck!

-Slappy-

Hi Montalk,

If you find that physical vibration from your speakers and/or subwoofer is being transmitted through the floor, you will probably find that an anti-vibration platform that decouples would go a long way toward taking care of the problem.

Best,

Barry

Disclaimer: I am a manufacturer of vibration control products.

Hi,
I can relate to your problem as I also live in a highrise. I would go with Kr4's suggestion, find out who's really complaining. In my case it was my upstairs neighbor. I sort of luck out (I have a corner unit also), the gentleman downstairs has hearing problems, my next door neighbor is always away on vacation, so that left only my upstairs neighbor. I actually went up and talked to him (after mgt. complained), and apologized. We worked out a schedule; I found out he and his wife always go to their home in NH. for the week-end, so that leaves me three days out of a week to blast my system all I want.
Find out who's really complaining, in a corner unit that only leaves three. If you have only one complainant, you might be able to work out something. My neighbor also told me his assigned parking spot, so whenever I want to play loud, I just peep out the window to see if he's home. I would've never known this unless I talked to him, and almost kissed this hobby good-bye. Good-luck and hope you can work out something with your neighbors.