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Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Dear Harriette:Music Bothers Downstairs Neighbors

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Obviously, you try to be considerate of your neighbors. Like don't run the vacuum at 3 am or don't blare your music 24/7. But, there are also so neighbors who are simply unreasonable and beyotche about any noises at all. If you are simply going about your life and they don't like to hear so much as a peep from your TV while you are watching it, then too bad. When you live in an apt you have to accept you are going to hear your neighbors to some extent.

DemoniaD · Senior Member

I have to wonder how loud the surround sound really makes the volume level, since the complaints didn't start until after it was installed. And what's with saying it could possibly be a race or age thing? Considering it started after LW added surround sound, and not when they moved in, I think either is highly unlikely......

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Yes, do we have to turn EVERY issue in life into a race, gender, age thing? Oh, we are black and they are gay? Americans no longer identify as Americans but are now just a subset of some group.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Dear Abby, I went to borrow an egg from the neighbor and she didn't have any. I am Goth and she is LDS. Do you think that is why she didn't have an eggs? Sheesh.

Ohfour · Hooker

Bass waves are 30 feet long. So what they are hearing is not the deepest part of the sound the subwoofer puts out. So yes, I'm sure the sound to the neighbors is unbearable.

Blankie · Guru

The next time it happens, the subwoofer guy should, without turning his volume down, go downstairs and hear for himself what it sounds like in the neighbor's apartment.

I am guessing it's much louder than he thinks.

And that mega bass vibration is worse than the volume. It's like an earthquake. If that's the real issue, that's just unbearable. The neighbors might feel like they are living inside a ghetto blaster.

-- Edited by Blankie on Tuesday 10th of February 2015 11:04:29 AM

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

Yeah you can feel the bass more than hear it. My subwoofer can shake the pictures on my walls just watching tv & not overly loud. But when something explodes on screen or the background music hits a low note it vibrates.

Bonny22Pye · Guru

my neighbors have loud bass it's super freaking annoying. But, unless at egregious or after 9pm during the week midnight on the weekends we try to just let it go.

FNW · Guru

When living in an apartment or condo, you have to be courteous, but you also have to expect to hear sounds. There should be something in the lease or even county laws regarding noise levels, and I think it's possibly a violation to install surround sound with subwoofers. The downstairs tenants would be better off seeking legal recourse along those lines rather than flailing about.

I'm a heavy walker. I can't help it. One of my sons is, too. Try as we might to tread lightly, we can't. When I lived in an apartment, I had one neighbor below me leave a note on my door asking me to stop walking because it was keeping his wife from napping while their newborn napped. (I was in bed by 9 PM most nights).

When we lived in our condo, we had a neighbor who ran on his treadmill every night around 7 PM. The whole place shook, and it sounded like rap music thumping and pounding. Pictures would move and we lost a heavy mirror. The complex had a gym, which was available for their use. We lived with it, but put the place on the market and decided to move. Our "for sale" sign was up. Then one morning at 8 AM that same neighbor came to our door and asked if I would not wear shoes because he worked late and my walking was keeping him from sleeping. (I was out the door by 8:10 most mornings).

ed11563 · Guru

What ever happened to the idea that, when you're having people over, you should invite the neighbors?

They are unlikely to complain if they're eating and drinking with you and your other guests.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Those days seem to be over ed. And, honestly, there are just a lot of flaky people out there. My mom moved to my town and lived in an apt. And, most of the people were freaking idiots to be honest. There were one or two nice ones who came and went but for the most part, they were just stupid people.

FNW · Guru

We invited our next door neighbor to one of our parties at the condo. He came and had a nice time. He also had a baby grand piano in his place and if I was real quiet I could hear him play.

The neighbor below us was never home and the unit on the other side of us was vacant at that time.

Mellow Momma · Sniff...sniff, sniff. Yay! A Bum!

ed11563 wrote:
What ever happened to the idea that, when you're having people over, you should invite the neighbors?
They are unlikely to complain if they're eating and drinking with you and your other guests.

I have never wanted to socialize with my neighbors. They have always been either WAY older than me (parents of people I went to high school with), or way too bizarre. Liek LGS said, there are lots of strange people out there and I don't like most of them. Lol. Just because you bought a house next door to me does t mean I want you at my party.

Ohfour · Hooker

Mellow Momma wrote:
ed11563 wrote:
What ever happened to the idea that, when you're having people over, you should invite the neighbors?
They are unlikely to complain if they're eating and drinking with you and your other guests.
I have never wanted to socialize with my neighbors. They have always been either WAY older than me (parents of people I went to high school with), or way too bizarre. Liek LGS said, there are lots of strange people out there and I don't like most of them. Lol. Just because you bought a house next door to me does t mean I want you at my party.

Plus, who said anything about having people over? Is he supposed to invite the neighbors every time he watches a movie? He's not throwing a party...he's watching a movie...

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I don't have anything in common with most of my neighbors.

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

When I first got married we lived in a small apartment complex. It was just two buildings about twenty feet apart. They were cinder block and the backs faced each other. You could literally hear someone in the next building flush their toilet. I had these neighbors,,,,,, the lady was a screamer. Oh was she a screamer. Man O man did she scream. She was German so it was DA! DA! DA! OHHHHHHHHH! DA! I couldn't even look her in the face on the street.

chef · Guru

I've lived in apartments for over 10 years now. I rarely hear my neighbors thanks to being partially deaf. I've long said that if you're loud enough to annoy me, you've probably already pissed off the rest of the building. I'm extra vigilant about noise levels because I can't hear well enough to know what's too loud. What's "normal" for my hearing could well be deafening for others.

Tinydancer · Guru

Southern_Belle wrote:
When I first got married we lived in a small apartment complex. It was just two buildings about twenty feet apart. They were cinder block and the backs faced each other. You could literally hear someone in the next building flush their toilet. I had these neighbors,,,,,, the lady was a screamer. Oh was she a screamer. Man O man did she scream. She was German so it was DA! DA! DA! OHHHHHHHHH! DA! I couldn't even look her in the face on the street.

hehehehehehe! Now that makes me laugh. Screaming is NOT necessary. Well maybe sometimes...lol

Honeys_Mom · Mod & Permanent Board Sweetheart

LOL, SB!

I think 11:00 is awfully late to stop the loud music, myself. I think our city ordinance is 9:00 p.m. every night.

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

9 is a reasonable quiet time. Not everyone stays up until midnight. The jets Keep me up late often but it's my fault for living next to a military base. We had to get surround sound so we can hear the tv on heavy training days.