Lovely Labor Day

EndersShadow
EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
edited September 2011 in The Clubhouse
Had a inverse CokeWVanilla problem today. We have a neighbor whose boyfriend (whenever he is over) listens to lots of loud rap. Thats fine, I try to be a nice neighbor and just ignore it and consider that they may hear my setup at times (though my wife is quick to handicap any attempt for bass at night). I have my sub on a isolation platform, and raised a bit to keep energy from transferring to walls and shaking the room. They are not as nice.

After a couple banging on the wall attempts failed, my wife (who as John will tell you is a really nice, not a mean bone in her body kinda woman) comes to the office, looks at me and says "Take the sub, move it as close to their wall as you can, and turn ANY AND ALL BASS VOLUME TO MAX!!!!!!!!!!!!"

So with no delay (and a giddy look on my face) I did that (after turning off the Carver amp so we had ONLY bass)

And lo and behold after about 5 mins of apartment shaking/rattling of nasty boomy bloated bass (as its only a PSW125), their music turned off.

So my comment to her was this "Now think how much louder and annoying we could make it if we had BIGGER LOUDER subs :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:)..

Yeah, that dint work.... :frown: yet :wink:

It also showed me just how limited the PSW125 is, as well as how good the Auralex Gamma really is at keeping energy from transfering.....
"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited September 2011
    P.S. wife said if they turn it up again, that the plan is to crank it and then leave for her parents labor day cookout in BrownsBurg and come back in a couple hours lol.....

    We would take the dogs as the sound scared the crap outta Chewey our littlest one lol...
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    edited September 2011
    They say paybacks a b...h, I Would gladly repay the favor and make them listen to some Rage Against the Machine, or Anthrax, maybe even some Megadeth, or if thats not your cup of tea anything that would drown out that Rap.
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited September 2011
    Hahaha great story!
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  • leroyjr1
    leroyjr1 Posts: 8,785
    edited September 2011
    Grab Don's LMS 5400.:biggrin:
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited September 2011
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    They say paybacks a b...h, I Would gladly repay the favor and make them listen to some Rage Against the Machine, or Anthrax, maybe even some Megadeth, or if thats not your cup of tea anything that would drown out that Rap.

    Honestly if I wanted to "repay them" Opera woulda been my choice....with teh LSi 15's on at full volume....

    Might "enlighten" them and confuse them though since there are no lyrics about "Getting paper..."

    Drenis wrote: »
    Hahaha great story!
    leroyjr1 wrote: »
    Grab Don's LMS 5400.:biggrin:

    I dont have the towing capacity for that bad boy lol......

    I do have a 10" with 700 watts in my car though...maybe drive it up next to their window and open the trunk while I "clean" it out for a couple hours....

    P.S. Tasha (my wife) laughed when I said I posted this and was like "You better have given ME the credit for this"... and then demanded to read the post to ensure I did so.

    Needless to say shes giggling reading your responses next to me...

    I got a pic I will post here in a few of how ghetto it looked lol...
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,273
    edited September 2011
    Is that where the term "Fight fire with fire" comes from
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited September 2011
    Pic of the fun attached :smile:

    Its a crappy camera pic, but this wasn't worthy of anything better lol.....

    Oh and both a pro and a con, my wife just got promoted to Assistant Property Manager..... of the property we live on lol...
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited September 2011
    Ha ha, cool story. I had a neighbor who watched really loud bass laden movies every night, really didn't bother me so long as he was having fun. I sometimes played my system loud but only for a few minutes at a time. I purchased these 4 18" kicker subs in boxes (which I only did because they were going for nothing from the local electronics shop owner)) and they had been sitting in my basement for two years. One night I decided to power them up with a few thousand watts (yeah, a few beers were at fault, nothing to do with the neighbors). Funny, I never heard a peep from them again after that. I can tell you, they had to have had the "stadium quality bass" experience. All I remember is things falling off the shelves all over the house. As I remember I even hurt my knee from the massive shake of the floors. From the neighbors point of view I'm sure this was like taking a military tank to a fist fight. Never drink before powering up the subs. :biggrin:
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  • dcmartinpc
    dcmartinpc Posts: 844
    edited September 2011
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    Pic of the fun attached :smile:

    Its a crappy camera pic, but this wasn't worthy of anything better lol.....

    Oh and both a pro and a con, my wife just got promoted to Assistant Property Manager..... of the property we live on lol...

    We could have brought that wall down!!! Come on!! Imagine a stack of Epik Sentinels playing 20 Hz sine waves!!!!! You know you want them! Oh I get nasty :biggrin: You know you want to buy my subs! I really want Leroy's Pioneer Plasma!!!

    I need to live closer to you! If the above didn't work I could have brought over my amp rack and 2 of my custom TC Sounds 18s!!! Yes... that should be sufficient.....

    Looks like JimAckley is going to buy my 5400 actually :smile: He should have some fun with it in his enclosure he is building :eek:

    Don
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    Theater: Denon 4311ci, Oppo BDP-93, Parasound HCA-2205+HCA-2200II, Polk LSi9, LSiC, LSiFX, LSi7, Custom 18" TC Sounds sub with 2 18" PR, Sharp XV-Z12000, Pioneer Kuro KRP-500M (isf Enabled)

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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited September 2011
    You people are making me jealous with "bigger sub envy"
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited September 2011
    dcmartinpc wrote: »
    We could have brought that wall down!!! Come on!! Imagine a stack of Epik Sentinels playing 20 Hz sine waves!!!!! You know you want them! Oh I get nasty :biggrin: You know you want to buy my subs! I really want Leroy's Pioneer Plasma!!!

    I need to live closer to you! If the above didn't work I could have brought over my amp rack and 2 of my custom TC Sounds 18s!!! Yes... that should be sufficient.....

    Looks like JimAckley is going to buy my 5400 actually :smile: He should have some fun with it in his enclosure he is building :eek:

    Don

    Yeah, but what I did worked. LOL, however when I get my house I will have to have you over after I get my set of 18" CHT subs to go w/ the LSi 15's hehehehe
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited September 2011
    madmax wrote: »
    Never drink before powering up the subs. :biggrin:

    Always drink when the voltage is flowing to the subs !!!
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