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?
Showing 5 responses by mahgister
For sure! you are right... In Japan, architecture comes with paper walls traditionally then all culture circle around respect and politeness and low noise level. I am not surprised by Japan big circles of audiophiles among the cities. Noise kill music.Music breath in low DB level slightly under 80 for sure . If not deafness watch for us. I am lucky to live in a place which for the time being resemble more one of this country more than the other ...😊 Noise kill. Period.
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We dont live on the same planet happily for me . 😊 And 50 years ago people were not transformed into savages yet ... Noise annoying the neighbours was considered impolite at best and an agression at worst ... And here where i lived police was answering these calls 50 years ago... But i am old and i spoke about a time where citizen existed and had right not only written but respected ... Not passive zombies yet ...
Noise is one of the most efficient attack on the health and psyche at the same time. Then noise is not an expression of freedom coming from our neighbours who then take the right to make extreme noise and then take the right to shoot you if you come... This right never existed here.. 😁 In this article they spoke about passive environmental noise merely. Not about deliberate use of noise as an arm by a neighbour which is tenfold worst. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00642-5 «The recognition of noise exposure as a prominent environmental determinant of public health has grown substantially. While recent years have yielded a wealth of evidence linking environmental noise exposure primarily to cardiovascular ailments, our understanding of the detrimental effects of noise on the brain and mental health outcomes remains limited. Despite being a nascent research area, an increasing body of compelling research and conclusive findings confirms that exposure to noise, particularly from sources such as traffic, can potentially impact the central nervous system. These harms of noise increase the susceptibility to mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, suicide, and behavioral problems in children and adolescents. »
When we spoke to our neighbour as if he could be God it could be dangerous because some people take anything to the letter : |
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 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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