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

when I was in my early 20s I would turn on my stereo, highest volume, 2 seconds at 1AM. Then again in 20-35 minutes. Until 4AM, when I finished my homework for school. The neighbor and I were not on the best terms

 

I go up banging his door...

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

I live in the Bronx, we will shoot your ass through the peep hole.

This is reality, not a movie, you come to my door and threaten me?

how about I put a guitar amplifier in my bedroom closet next to your bedroom turn it on 10 and lean the guitar against it so it feeds back all night and leave.

Works every time.

The police do not respond to noise complaints 99% of the time
Street parties with boomboxes still exist here and go onto five in the morning. If I want to get some peace and quiet, I have to shut the windows and turn my stereo up !

Yes - so I moved to a detached house. To be fair, it was mostly when I was jamming to Rory Gallagher :))