Noise complaints?

cokewithvanilla

Wow, this **** is making it a regular thing now to come over and complain about the noise. I'm purposely keeping it quiet. I don't even know what hes hearing. I have now turned off the subs on my 25's.... .UGH

What would you all advise?

should I get some gangsta rap, turn it all the way up, then leave?

or maybe I should complain about every single noise i hear from his place.

or should I not act like a child, turn keep the 25's subs off, and turn the volume down?

treitz3

How far away is your neighbor that is complaining?

ohskigod

some backround might help. is this an apartment? Condo?

if it's an apartment, LSi25's moght not have been the best choice....jst sayin

cokewithvanilla

I am currently in an apartment. I wasn't always, I am now in college........

nooshinjohn

I say invite the whole building to a party at your place... kegs and all... turn on both subs and crank it up... just dont invite the ****. when he comes to complain hand the loser a beer and tell him to lighten up

cokewithvanilla

nooshinjohn wrote: »

I say invite the whole building to a party at your place... kegs and all... turn on both subs and crank it up... just dont invite the ****. when he comes to complain hand the loser a beer and tell him to lighten up

haha, great idea!

too bad I'm not in an apartment near campus.... everyone here are a bunch of old asses

markmarc

To be honest, the LSi25 is too much for an apartment. Chances are the guy is hearing boom, boom, boom, and an irritating rumble. i'd definitely turn off the subs and keep it way down when he is home.

Just about two years ago my wife and I spent 3 months in a basement apartment, it was amazing how obnoxious the little subwoofer was from the computer next door. Apartments were made for an iPod and cans.

leroyjr1

Just find out his work schedule and when he's not home "CRANK THAT MOTHER".

cokewithvanilla

I turned off the subs, undid the jumpers and have the wires just going to the top terminals. UGH... still I don't like having to not use the bottom half of my speaker. The dude on the right of me has never complained, and I've had that **** REAL loud when he was home.

cokewithvanilla

leroyjr1 wrote: »

Just find out his work schedule and when he's not home "CRANK THAT MOTHER".

its too bad, because I start listening when he goes to bed, and I go to bed around when he wakes up.

nooshinjohn

better yet.. buy the guy a set of noise cancelling headphones... preferably the ones from BOSE...

Igo

I started my HT as a home owner on 2.5 acres. I have the same set up in an apartment now. Frankly, it pisses me off when I hear boogy thump passing by in the parking lot.
I've been real lucky thus far; not a word but I am very conscience about how and when I use the system.
The guy isn't hearing music, even if if was music he wanted to hear. He is hearing booooom/thuuuuud/booooom/ thuuuud. Ya can't blame him. It's probably noisy where he works too.

cokewithvanilla

Well, now that the woofers are off.... I guess he really can't ****.

It blows though, when I got this apartment they said "the sound proofing is excellent, we never get noise complaints." I said, well, I have this set of speakers.... they laughed saying it would be no problem. they also told me the longest drive i'd ever have to campus is 20 minutes, and 10 at good times. ****, I drive 30 minutes every day...

treitz3

Have you ever introduced yourself to him and told him that you dig music, that you would like for him to come over and enjoy a beer or refreshments at a "normal" listening level? Reason I ask is if you can make it happen, he will see just how loud it is over in your pad and if he comments that he enjoys the sound, ask to go over to his place to see if at the same level it is acceptable to him with what he hears going through the walls.

This can lead to many things. If it is, he/she might not be such a consistent issue because he understands just how loud it actually is. If it isn't.........well, get back to me then. At that point it's a lesson in what you can expect when you move in with neighbors living 6" away from you. Just try to be respectful, courteous and understanding until you get to know them more. Be the man that steps up and say that while maybe you may have gotten off on the wrong foot, you would like to know how to correct the situation and make the both of you happy. It will only make this place a better place to reside. Your neighbors should understand that if they are reasonable people.

Communication is key and a little give on both parties can go a long way.

treitz3

cokewithvanilla wrote: »

its too bad, because I start listening when he goes to bed, and I go to bed around when he wakes up.

What shift do the both of you work/go to school?

BlueFox

Have to concur with the others about the boom, boom, boom. Low frequency goes through everything. It is unstopable. When the moron across the street starts his car the first thing he does is turn on his music. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM is all you hear inside with the doors and windows closed in the winter. You never hear singing or any other instruement. Its just boom, boom, boom. Even though I live in a house I now keep my sub turned down, and in the summer I close the windows if I want to listen to music moderately loud, or higher.

cokewithvanilla

I wish he was a normal person, than I could have decent relations... but this dude can't even speak english. I don't know how to speak to him. I don't know what the hell is his primary language.

Igo

I also wouldn't disconnect the low end drivers. I'd just back off on the bass adjustments.

Airplay355

If you can, try reorganizing. Try putting the speakers on an inner wall (if they already aren't) and move them away from corners that might be causing boomy bass.

If he lives next to you, you can try hanging a rug on the wall to try and insulate or you can buy some sound insulation type panels.

If it's his complaints that annoy you, you could also try to find out exactly what level you're at when he starts hearing it next door. That way you can be a good neighbor and keep it below that level when he's trying to sleep. That's what I had to do when I was a kid. Any farther up than -40 on the receiver and my mom could hear it upstairs. She's come down half asleep and real pissed.

Don't ditch the lsi25's though. You aren't going to live in an apartment forever and when you're out they will kick ****. Just try to make things work for now.

BlueFox

Airplay355 wrote: »

If it's his complaints that annoy you, you could also try to find out exactly what level you're at when he starts hearing it next door.

The problem with bass is if you can hear it then your neighbor can also, especially if you are sharing a common wall, floor, ceiling in an apartment.

Personally, the one thing I really, really hate is having to listen to someone else's music. A couple of weeks ago neighbors 2 houses down had a party, and moved their stereo out back. I am inside, windows and doors closed, listening to music and thinking "I never heard that bass before."

I asked them to turn it down, and they did. But that was party number 4 in the last 6 months, so next time it is the police.

rayslifecycle

treitz3 wrote: »

Have you ever introduced yourself to him and told him that you dig music, that you would like for him to come over and enjoy a beer or refreshments at a "normal" listening level? Reason I ask is if you can make it happen, he will see just how loud it is over in your pad and if he comments that he enjoys the sound, ask to go over to his place to see if at the same level it is acceptable to him with what he hears going through the walls.

This can lead to many things. If it is, he/she might not be such a consistent issue because he understands just how loud it actually is. If it isn't.........well, get back to me then. At that point it's a lesson in what you can expect when you move in with neighbors living 6" away from you. Just try to be respectful, courteous and understanding until you get to know them more. Be the man that steps up and say that while maybe you may have gotten off on the wrong foot, you would like to know how to correct the situation and make the both of you happy. It will only make this place a better place to reside. Your neighbors should understand that if they are reasonable people.

Communication is key and a little give on both parties can go a long way.

+1 - the only way to deal with neighbors is to talk to them everyday. Otherwise tension builds over the littlest of things until one of you loses your sh&^%t. From your post that followed this one - I see you have your first question to pose: "Where are you from" - then go to "what is it like there" and so on.......a little of this goes a long way.......

I just moved out of a condo where one shared wall was brick - and the other shared wall was 1/2"tk gypsum over steel studs - no insulation. I could hear my neighbor talk on the phone. I know she could hear my rig. I stopped talking to her after she knifed her husband and we lived in tension until I moved out. She was never nice - but I always said hi and smiled. When a complaint was filled by my fiance about having to hear her TV, I was the one called into the office by her counter complaining about my system, however, I was always the nice one while she ranted and raved like a lunatic. In the end, all that mattered was that I was the one everyone else liked - and she was a raving lunatic.

brettw22

Go over to his place and ask to hear what he's hearing. Turn up your volume to whatever you consider OK, then go over to his place and see what you hear. Also, invite him over to your place to hear that the volume isn't really all that loud to see if he might want to adjust his expectations.......

Some people are just outright **** and you'll never win in their eyes........but at least you can make the effort to show him that you have done several things to try to alleviate his issues........

dorokusai

Answer the door with cow blood all over your face, chainsaw and wearing only a Vote for Pedro tshirt.

billbillw

I spent many years in apartments, and noise was often an issue. Usually, once they complain the first time, its downhill from there. They get less and less tolerant. Some apartments have rules that will get you evicted if they receive more than 2 complaints within a month. Be careful!

One time, I had this old retired guy living in the same building. This building was not more than 200 feet from a very busy CSX rail line. Freight trains coming through about 20-30 times a day. That is serious loud if you know what I mean.
One day, I was off work on a Friday and decided to play some music (probably Tool) at pretty loud levels. I played for about 30 minutes, and turned it off completely and went to leave the apartment to run errands. There was a note on my door that said "Please turn down music. Base too loud". I laughed. I thought, with all these loud trains going by, you want to complain about 30 minutes of loud music? I kept it down from then on and moved out of that apartment shortly after.

My first apartment in Atlanta was a nightmare. We had a foreign couple with two small children living below us. We are talking a small 2 bedroom apartment. They complained about my roommate before I even moved in. Then, the night I moved in they complained because of moving noises. A few weeks later, the complained when I was cooking some brownies and banged the sheet pan on the counter to flatten the batter out. It was ridiculous. They called the cops, they complained to the office, we were almost evicted and we really were not that loud at all!
There was some real animosity there. I'm sorry, but if you are that sensitive to noise, you shouldn't be living in an apartment!

comfortablycurt

nooshinjohn wrote: »

I say invite the whole building to a party at your place... kegs and all... turn on both subs and crank it up... just dont invite the ****. when he comes to complain hand the loser a beer and tell him to lighten up

Ironically that was almost exactly what I did with one of my old neighbors...lol...I was living in the upstairs apartment of a house, and the guy in the downstairs apartment was always complaining about how loud we always were. One day he came up to complain, and I dragged him in and started filling him up a cup from the keg. He ended up hanging out for hours after that...lol...had a great time. He was always cool after that too.

That may not work in all situations though.:p

Pauly

nooshinjohn wrote: »

I say invite the whole building to a party at your place... kegs and all... turn on both subs and crank it up... just dont invite the ****. when he comes to complain hand the loser a beer and tell him to lighten up

Pretty much what i did when i moved in to my apt. Thing is the **** are hard to get out once you get them in :D

Pauly

Igo

I can hear my dear, sweet 'ol pappy now. "TURN THAT ABERIGIAL **** DOWN"

Jstas

Heh, noise is the least of your worries some times.

I had a washing machine break with the filler valve open. Only the water wasn't filling in the tub so it never shut off 'cause the water weight didn't trigger the weight sensor in the tub. So the bathroom, hallway and half the master bedroom flooded before I realized it. Since the washing machine was part of the apartment, the complex was responsible for maintenance and such so it was their fault ultimately.

Well the apartment downstairs flooded too as my water came through their ceiling. The guy downstairs was Mexican and didn't speak English. But in true stereotypical fashion, they had 11 people living in a 2 bedroom apartment.

So while I am frantically trying to reach the shutoff valve and clean up 4 inches of water in my apartment, this jackass from downstairs comes storming up the stairs, pounds on my door and when I open it, starts yelling at me in Spanish like I intentionally dumped 200 gallons of water on my floor just to piss in his Wheaties. I looked at him in stunned amazement and yelled back at him that I didn't have time for this BS and I had bigger problems and slammed the door. Forgot to lock it though. So he walks right in.

I was pretty high on adrenaline and when my wife screamed at him to get out, I turned around and he was picking up his hand. I thought he was going to take a swing at me so I grabbed him by his shirt, pushed him against the wall, opened the front door back up, swept him with my leg as I was dragging him to the door and in one shot threw him out the door, slammed it shut and locked it. I think he fell down but I didn't punch him or anything.

I went back to cleaning up the water and the maintenance guys showed up like 45 minutes later and I was like thanks, could have used you a half hour ago. I didn't say that though. They helped me finish cleaning up and then I mentioned that the guy downstairs was up here complaining about water too.

They went down to check it out and found the 11 people in the apartment. The maintenance guys are required to report such stuff to the office. So they did. A week later I get a note left on my door written in broken English calling me all kinds of profanity laced names because I beat up an old man, ruined all their stuff with my water and got this kid and his parents and his sister and her husband and her kids evicted from their only place to live and destroyed all their stuff.

I was told later by one of the maintenance guys who came back to fix the padding in the carpet that they had to get the police to remove them by force. That was when I showed them the note. He then says that it didn't matter anyway because they all got deported except for three of the six kids who were born in the U.S.

Now THAT is what you call animosity!

Although that was apparently a pretty good day of evil doing on my part. Beat up an old man, got a family of 11 evicted, destroyed all their stuff and a family of 8 deported and all I had to do was break a washing machine! At least the apartment stopped smelling like refried beans and taco spices all the time after they left.

Igo

I had the same neighbors downstairs for 4 years. When I first moved here I shook their hands and told them if they ever needed anything in an emergency to just knock on their ceiling with a broom and I'd come running. I also told them I listen to music but not before 9:30 AM or after 9:30 PM. That was the only conversation we ever had but they never complained about my sysytem. The moved about 4 months ago. I got a new neighbor for about 2 months. They had a visious dog but they acted like they were scared that people would have them evicted because of the dogs agressive behavior. I didn't like the Dog but felt like letting them have their dog was what was letting me have my stereo. They left already so I'm anxious as to who will move in now.

megasat16

cokewithvanilla wrote: »

haha, great idea!

too bad I'm not in an apartment near campus.... everyone here are a bunch of old asses

We, the old geezers, do not like you, the new asses, turning up too much on your LSi25s. So you have two choices: turn over your LSI25 to me or move to your new asses town where you can crank and party all night.

danger boy

cokewithvanilla wrote: »

Wow, this **** is making it a regular thing now to come over and complain about the noise. I'm purposely keeping it quiet. I don't even know what hes hearing. I have now turned off the subs on my 25's.... .UGH

What would you all advise?

should I get some gangsta rap, turn it all the way up, then leave?

or maybe I should complain about every single noise i hear from his place.

or should I not act like a child, turn keep the 25's subs off, and turn the volume down?

move to a new place.