New Room (from House to Apt) advice wanted on minimizing complaints


new room is ~ 11.5 ft by 22 ft. i was lucky enough to only get a neighbor on one side of me, so for purposes of reducing the "Turn That Down" complaints, i was going to put the speakers firing away from the neighbor's wall (ie using that wall as the front wall, with rear of speakers facing neighbor). this means the long wall gets the speakers. so sidewalls will be no prob. but what else can i do to minimize noise travel through walls? any soundproofing / acoustical drapes that i should put on front wall? 

i will decouple subs from floor by putting 3" maple blocks under ea sub. 

(plenty of 16" tube traps and 6" bass panels avail).

tia
rhyno
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Subs and apartments don't get along very well. I don't envy both you and your neighbour. If I were your neighbour...never mind.
I suggest you get rid of them. Yeah, you might have to replace your speakers too. Could be an opportunity for an upgrade.
I've had good luck with the "neighbor visit" technique when I was in an apartment. I added that I would only be playing loud music at a specific time ie. Friday night from 7-9 pm, Saturday afternoon from 1-3 pm?
Fwiw, I use a Dspeaker Anti Node in my home theater. It works well removing unwanted peaks, nodes, etc. After running the correction program the sub is more controlled and appropriate, not as 'loud'. I don't enjoy hyped bass.

While setting up the program you can hear nodes in the room being excited before being corrected, nasty business!

I don't know if this would translate to your neighbors hearing less bass, just wanted to mention the technology and opportunity.