Told to turn it down.

Tbh i'd keep it down between 11pm - 7am but apart from that I'd show her the middle finger

After that she can get used it to tbh. Its an appartment and noise travels. If shes not happy with it she can move to a detached house.

I live in an appartment btw.
 
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Tbh i'd keep it down between 11pm - 7am but apart from that I'd show her the middle finger

After that she can get used it to tbh. Its an appartment and noise travels. If shes not happy with it she can move to a detached house.
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Why doesn't the OP move to a detached house? Not that simple is it you ignorant git.

People should have more respect for one another. I bet you'd soon squeal if your neighbour was making too much noise.
 
I do generally keep my sub at a lowish level anyway, although mainly between 11pm-8am I believe is the 'quiet period' by law? I live in an old building on the first floor and have only ever had one person knock on my floor from the flat below but I could see it was too loud. No complaints since. I personally say if its between 9am-9pm then to an extent of course, she doesn't really have the right to complain. Especially if its midday or so.
 
Aye, I'm told 'music practise' is not allowed in my flats after 11PM. Since this would be more or less indistinguishable from playing music, I just don't do it loud after then. The neighbours are actually pretty good, the penthouse above me sounds like they have a drum kit, piano and guitar, but it's never loud at night, only sometimes through the day, but you can barely hear it then.
 
Speaking of sound abuse I got a letter hand wrote from my neighbour the other day and it looked like it was from a 5 year old. They couldn't spell or write properly it was funny. Something along the lines of "Could you keep your music down or I will tell my mam off you" I was like ahhhh hahaha so I wrote one back saying "FU" (in real words ofcourse) then I said "It's not that when your shaggin is it, you partner makes more noise than me when I have the music on" I have photocopied your letter for evidence.

I mean I don't even have it on loud I have resepct for others it's just they don't like music. Not my fault. They boring people for been in their 20's!
 
Doubt ppl will like music thumping at 11pm, a realistic time to keep it down is 8pm till 8am.

I heard putting a egg box (grey cardboard ones not plastic) under a sub can help stop the vibrations going all over (into neighbours). Duno if it works tho as mines on the carpet which i presume would dampen the sound anyhow.

Comments about moving, yeah right, like that would happen just to play music.
 
JonRohan said:
Why doesn't the OP move to a detached house? Not that simple is it you ignorant git.

People should have more respect for one another. I bet you'd soon squeal if your neighbour was making too much noise.
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I would squeal if it was at an unreasonable time but not during the day. Also if you wanted peace and quiet then its not reasonable to live in flats so yeah not the OPs faults.

Theres no need for a personal attacks either :rolleyes:
 
Move to a detached house, anything below 80Hz will go thru walls unless the walls are stupidly think (eg 1m+).

You can't really change physics I'm afraid, and soundproofing has a limited effect for things below 80Hz.

Even in a detached house, I try not to have loud music on after 10pm, even with double glazing I can hear the bass outside the house, in a similar way to when you are outside a nightclub! :eek:
 
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In a detached house, my belief is that i shouldn't be able to hear my neighbours' music and neither should they mine.
 
I can't believe the selfish attitude of some of the posters. Have some consideration for those around you. Moving is clearly not a viable plan so talking to your neighbour about it is the way to go. The chap that mentioned ringing them up to see what sound level is acceptable has the right idea.
Enjoy your music by all means but not to the detriment of others.

Btw after 11pm (10pm in some places) you're at risk of having council environmental officers at your door and possibly receiving a fine. Worth it?
 
Some are unreasonable: The woman in the flat below me has complained to me about:

1. Walking around my flat, because they can hear it downstairs. She asked if I could 'change the way I walk'.

2. Flushing the toilet.

3. Talking loudly.

4. Having a wooden floor in my sitting room. Despite the fact EVERY flat (130?), including the one downstairs, has one, as they were built that way.

The floors are solid concrete - the place was only built 8 years ago, so it's fairly soundproof. In contrast, I can hear absolutely nothing from any other flat around mine.

I seem to have got away with ignoring her, and she's stopped complaining. Not sure I've actually changed how I behave, though.
 
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Comments about moving, yeah right, like that would happen just to play music.
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I would, music is one of the few things I enjoy a lot in life and I couldn't live with neighbors trying to take that away. If I had inconsiderate neighbors moaning about music all the time I'd probably move as soon as I realistically&financially could.
People should have more respect for one another.
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Exactly, they need to respect some people need music in their life, and feel depressed without it.
I bet you'd soon squeal if your neighbour was making too much noise.
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Nope, the neighbor on the side of my room is exactly the same and likes blasting gangsta rap very loud around 11am-2pm usually, don't mind a all and get on with him fine. The other neighbors haven't complained except on new years eve at 2am ( I thought that at least on 1 Jan I could play music loud at night guess I was wrong, silly people, people still stood outside with fireworks and they complain about music :rolleyes:...).

But if they'd complain before 8pm I'd tell them to **** off tbh, and before 10pm I'd probably turn it down but only as an exception as I believe that by law I have the right to play music up to 10pm....
 
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Ultimately, when you choose to move into a flat you have to accept you will likely have to make compromises with regards to noise.

You can't play obscenely loud music whenever you want and you'll probably have to put up with some sort of noise from other flats at times too.

If you're not happy with such compromises, don't move into a flat in the first place. If you can't afford anything else, tough, that's life, you can't have everything your own way all the time.
 
I spent a grand on my setup and still have to be concious about sound levels and when i choose to use my kit.
sundays i have it as loud as i like as they are at church, i pick two other days in the week where i can have it at a decent level.
Its all about trade offs, i dont regulerly annoy my neighbours with my audio delights so the odd time they are forgiving of it. i think if they complained i would firstly kindly ask him to refrain his child from using his toys as lump hammers on the walls at six in the morning on a saturday, as it happens he stomachs my little outbursts of sound so i stomach his.
i firmly believe the audio quality i get from the setup at lower than id like volumes is still worth the money i paid so i can live with it as long i can stretch its legs every now and again.

my main tip would be to remain polite, if you **** them off they will be completely intolerable of it any chance they can.
 
I thought I was being considerate having my volume already so stupidly low at 12 to 14% it's max capability. I've already lowered my speakers even more and lowered the bass even more and spoke to the lady below me and it seems to be ok now.

With me never going out having no friends and my struggle to make relationships my games music and movies is all I live for. Taking it away would leave me completely empty and void of any kind of happiness.
 
yeah, nothing ****es me off more than people crowing about loud music! i remember at my last house my next door neighbour was this woman who was german and like 60 and smoked 200 a day, she was the ultimate crow! i used to have a set of "auditech" 2.1 speakers that cost £15 6 years ago. and having them turned up to 50% she would be phoning the house or knocking at the door to crow about the noise levels :S some people are extream and like to bitch about anything they can, but now in my new house, its semi-detached and the guy next door plays bass xD well rescently i got myself a yamaha amp. a set of 5 sony speakers, 2 towers, 2 rear bookcase speakers and a center bar and a 100W Ruark VITA Subwoofer and i can listen to it pretty loud all day! and even at night i can listen to it at a good volume, never ever had a complaint! even when i turn it up to max where its so loud it makes you dizzy. haha
 
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I did, lived in a terrace but moved out of town to a detached house almost entirely so i could play music and movies loud
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I often find it can be louder than you think with a low distortion sub... If the bass is clean you don't really think it's very loud, until you wander down the other end of the house and realise it's not getting much quieter! :D

I think human ears may apply the equivelent of dynamic compression when things get a little loud, and you almost get used to the loudness... :eek:

I never rum more than 300W rms into my sub, despite the speaker being rated at 600W rms, I prefer avoid power compression and 126db is plenty anyway :cool:
 
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snowdog said:
I would, music is one of the few things I enjoy a lot in life and I couldn't live with neighbors trying to take that away. If I had inconsiderate neighbors moaning about music all the time I'd probably move as soon as I realistically&financially could.
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Good. The onus would be on you to move.

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Exactly, they need to respect some people need music in their life, and feel depressed without it.
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Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.

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But if they'd complain before 8pm I'd tell them to **** off tbh, and before 10pm I'd probably turn it down but only as an exception as I believe that by law I have the right to play music up to 10pm....
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Not sure where you are, but here in the UK it doesn't matter what time it is. If you're causing a nuisance, you're causing a nuisance.
 
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