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.
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?
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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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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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@mahgister Me too. I detest all manner of useless human noise. I’ve a large lot and even then, they love noise. Dogs barking, leafblowers, chainsaws, tree grinders, jet skis, ATVs, guns, backup beepers that go on all day on a construction site, and outside music or radio. Even now, on Memorial Day at 3pm, some fool nearby is cutting something with a mitre saw in his yard. Thankfully, my basement with the sound systems is almost soundproof. |
I’ve been the one banging. I’m the quiet neighbor. Had a couple with three kids upstairs. The pounding, heel-walking cherubs never stopped moving. Had another rental once where the lunatic upstairs would put away laundry at 2am every weekend. She'd walk back and forth the length of the room hundreds of times until 3.30am putting the stuff away.
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