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For city apartment dweller audiophiles. Have you ever had neighbors banging on your walls?

I try to be considerate when I play my music but recently I put footers under the spikes of my speakers very highly recommended here. People claiming improvements in sound and a godsend when you need to move them to get behind certain components. I was listening to music and in the middle of a cut I paused my cd transport placed the new footers under the spikes and then I started the player without changing the volume. The music was noticeably louder and I had to turn it down.

Well two days after I was playing music at 8AM no louder than I've been playing it for years and I get banging on my bedroom wall. I listen in my living room so next to it is my bedroom and then the bedroom of my neighbor. The last time it happened was many many years ago and it wasn't music it was a man talking on FM radio. I sensed there was a change in the presence of the music with the new footers but that big of a difference? We have very good sound proofing here and there was a time when I could play Wagner at 5am before work and nobody complained.

Could footers make that much of a difference? I did notice an improvement in presence as well. I do not know this neighbor and she's been living here a few years.

Anybody else have a similar situation when they changed something in their system or maybe you were just playing music too loudly without realizing it?

 

roxy1927
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mahgister
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I never lived in any apartment really.

I was lucky.😊

But i worked when young in a store...

I read books between customers.

The neighbour above make some much noise with a rockband...

I did not know if it was a real one or playback...

I go up banging his door...

I only make the sign of cutting a throat...He close the door.

I go back and the silence i was used too go back...

I only make noise with my speakers when i was 15 years old...

No neigbours came for cutting my thoat... After this critical year i never listen window open at 100 decibels and more ...

 

i am pretty sure that my own isolation coupling decoupling sandwich is better than footers to control vibrations then bass sound level in the floor and ceilings ...

 

 

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noromance
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Tough guy, huh? 😉

I go up banging his door...I only make the sign of cutting a throat...He close the door.

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noromance
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They are building blocks of 4 floor apartments with OSB I-beams and ZIP tape. It must be an acoustic nightmare to live in them.

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mahgister
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Tough guy, huh? 😉

I go up banging his door...I only make the sign of cutting a throat...He close the door.

 

Completely made mad by noise...

😊

Nothing irritate me more than loud noise...

I never go to crowded public concert because of that ...

I would certainly kill neighbours making too much noise and i will die in jail...( to not kill someone in a battle you must be in control or hugely dissuasive )

Young i discovered the house for my father who never look for one to buy , his first and last one ...I did that because i hate neighbour noise of any kind...

I decided young to buy one as soon as i will marry ...I paid for 5 years a location in my father upper appartment before buying one)

Then i never had neighbours making noise in my life and i escape jail ...😊

 

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tony1954
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I am a condo dweller as well and whether you are going to be "that neighbour" mostly depends on the design of the building and your apartments orientation with regards to your neighbours.

My building has solid concrete floors/ceilings and only my bedroom shares a wall with the unit next door. This was partly luck (it was the only unit available) and partly my digging into the original building plans on file with the city.

The result is that, even with some reasonably loud listening sessions, I have never had a complaint or someone coming to my door and threatening to cut my throat ;).

 

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