Sound proofing floor


I'm in a condo and my downstairs neighbor can hear my music. I'm looking into putting a sound barrier over the cement floor and under the carpet. Has anyone had to do this and can point me toward products I can use?

rbull11

Mass loaded vinyl is the shiznit. I have used it to soundproof a ceiling from the living room above and I have used it to soundproof the family room below my room. Just lay it down and put your vinyl flooring right over it. Not cheap, but very effective. Now, in my rooms I was also able to fully insulate as well. 

I have considered it on the wall between my bedroom and the living room in present house. Works well.

 

ceiling in this situation:

https://www.audiogon.com/systems/6230#&gid=1&pid=17

 

floor in this situation:

https://www.audiogon.com/systems/8615#&gid=1&pid=11

@rbull11 

My first thought, is you must be playing your music way to loud for anything but maybe some bass to pass through 6”-8” of concrete or it’s traveling through the walls. However, my subwoofer used to rattle the windows and AC vents until I bought four washing machine isolation feet from Amazon for like $20 and an 18”X18” piece of floor tile to go on top of my carpeted floor.  Worked like a charm. I did something similar with my speakers. I bought some Isoacoustics Gaia isolation feet and couple pieces of 1” thick granite, also on top of the carpeted floor .  They made a huge difference! 

I installed mass loaded vinyl under the wood floor. It helped greatly to reduce the sound. I also lined the walls with it before the drywall went up. It is heavy and hard to work with but great results.

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I'm looking into the mass loaded vinyl and a few other options. I'm on the 4th floor of a 4 story building. I'm not playing my music extremely loud ( too me ) My neighbors on either side don't hear my music, I've checked with both. It's just the neighbor below. It's not extremely loud to my neighbor but just enough to be bothersome when trying to sleep.For a temp. solution I've turned it down a little, put a pad under my sub woofer and turned my spikes over so thet're not going through the carpet to the sub floor. I've ordered spike pads so I can turn the spikes back the correct way.