Annoying sounds from cars at stop light

What causes the stereo in the car next to you at the stop light so loud and annoying with over the top bass and how can the driver stand it?

soundsrealaudio12-06-2017 4:52am

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geoffkait Details Discussions Posts This discussion 23,365 posts 08-10-2018 at 10:26pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Alternative explanation: the poor guy upstairs or in the next apartment only hears the bass frequencies but not the rest of the frequencies. That’s why the sound is irritating, it’s just the thump, thump of the bass, not because the bass is amplified. The wall absorbs higher frequencies better than low frequencies. If it was true walls amplified bass frequencies you could get better bass by constructing a wall in front of your speakers. Hel- loo!
geoffkait Details Discussions Posts This discussion 23,365 posts 08-10-2018 at 11:54am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete soundsrealaudio wrote, "So here is a point I would like to make. I don't think those low frequency really travel through those walls in your home. I would offer this, the waves from the driver hit the wall, they cause the wall to vibrate/resonate and because the wall is much larger then the driver it amplifies the sound." >>>>>>>Uh, that's how sound waves propagate through ANY medium, air, water or walls, or whatever. The acoustic waves excite the molecules of the medium. Also, if the walls amplified the sound, the voices you hear from the next room, on the other side of the wall, would be louder, not softer.
geoffkait Details Discussions Posts This discussion 23,365 posts 12-12-2017 at 12:01am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete If this helps, the speed of sound in concrete is about 10 times the speed of sound in air.
geoffkait Details Discussions Posts This discussion 23,365 posts 12-09-2017 at 12:12am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The real answer is both. Sound waves travel through the walls AND make the walls vibrate.
geoffkait Details Discussions Posts This discussion 23,365 posts 12-07-2017 at 05:59pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Good one! 🤪
geoffkait Details Discussions Posts This discussion 23,365 posts 12-07-2017 at 05:32pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Yes, I know it’s a good question. I only ask good questions. How do you get low bass with zero volume? You don’t have to have any experience with headphones to see what I mean.
geoffkait Details Discussions Posts This discussion 23,365 posts 12-07-2017 at 04:00pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I get very low bass from my headphones and Walkman CD player. What’s up with that?

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