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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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fynnegan
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It’s about what kind of music you play. I play contemporary and modern classical, which rarely has repeating bass. No complaints. 

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audioguy85
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My house is a pos, but thankfully Noone can tell me to turn my sh*t down...😁

czarivey
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tell me after all that complaining on your neighbors, have you aver been waking up onto the sounds of the livestock and flock and realizing that it's all normal??

You're all extremely spoiled!!

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stevizzy
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The exact same scenario happened to long ago in a Condo I owned. I had Snell Type A2 Speakers sitting on thin carpet, just the cabinet, no footers or feet. The floor under the carpet was concrete. This was in 1978 and the only product out was Tiptoes which looked like a Hershey Kiss, only pointy. I tried using them but the point wasn’t pointy enough and they were unstable. 
Well, not discouraged, I drilled 4 holes in the concrete pounded anchors into the holes and screwed lag bolts into the anchors. The speakers rested on the flat heads and could be adjusted so all 4 were even. 
The minute I turned the system on, I heard a tremendous increase in the bass, and imaging. It also sounded louder. Within a week, one nasty neighbor went to my door telling me to turn it down, which I did many times as his unit wasn’t even close to me. Then, the Police showed up one day while I was playing it. They didn’t think it was too loud, but the distant neighbor did. I asked the Officer if I could accompany them to the neighbors home and I did. Well, it was almost inaudible, and he had a clock on the wall ticking was more obvious than slight bass thump I could hear. He got pissed and said to the Police, “I don’t want to hear anything”.  
Before I went with the Officer, I cranked it up much louder than it was playing when the Cops first showed up. 
Thank God, the guy moved out shortly after. He didn’t Own his Condo, he was renting it, not permitted and never saw him again. 
It was the Bass that carried through the concrete, nothing else. 
 

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