Ian Iveson wrote:
D.M. Procida wrote:

Would speaker spikes help cut down the sound transmitted
to the
occupants of a flat on the floor below? If not, what
would?

I believe the floor is carpeted, and the speakers are not
very huge
anyway.

If the floor is resonating, some experimentation with layout
of furniture may help slightly, but it would have to be
really heavy to make much of a difference.

Otherwise your only hope is to persuade them to turn it down
or roll off the bass somehow. Your local council may help if
you get desperate, but it's a long haul that way.


Apparently the noise has to be 35dBA or 10dBA above background to
qualify as 'noise nuisance' under the Anti-Social Behaviour Act.

If I play music at say 75dBA it doesn't even register on my sound meter
(which starts at about 35 dB) in the room directly above, but I can
certainly hear it, and it would annoy me. At 70dBA I'm pretty confident
it wouldn't bother my neighbours - in fact I've rarely heard anything
from them save the odd door slam. I wouldn't put the subwoofer on, though.

I doubt it's much comfort to the OP, but if he likes to listen to music
at night, it bothers the neighbours and sound insulation is poor, it
does look like a move is in order. My Victorian terraced home is pretty
good at containing noise, with a hall one side and a gennel t'other.

Rob

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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Would speaker spikes help cut down the sound transmitted to the
occupants of a flat on the floor below? If not, what would?

I believe the floor is carpeted, and the speakers are not very huge
anyway.

My experience is that bass is the sound that travels the most from one house
to another, and that speakers tend to sound less bassy if you lift them off
the floor and put them on something else - my girlfriend's stereo can
produce a lot of bass and there's a big difference in the sound when they're
stood on the wide cabinet with her hifi to when they're just on the floor.

Hi

The following web site (for good or ill) has some advice that I have
taken:

http://www.quieterhomes.org/noise_pr...nment_hifi.cfm

Playing TVs and stereos without any sound being audible in the
apartment below or above is not really possible. Certainly, I can hear
my neighbour's TV now and again. I am sure he can hear my hifi on the
same basis. You have to hope that live and let live prevails.

By the way, don't take any notice of Phil Allison, just add him to
your blocked senders list and move on. That's what I did. I only saw
his posts because I have installed new software and forgot to update
things.

Regards

David

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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Would speaker spikes help cut down the sound transmitted to the
occupants of a flat on the floor below?

No. The vast majority of the sound transmitted to the occupants of a flat
on the floor below is first transmitted via the air in the room.

If not, what would?

Using headphones or turning down the sound.

Isolating your entire listening room from the rest of the building.

Seriously.

D.M. Procida wrote:
Would speaker spikes help cut down the sound transmitted to the
occupants of a flat on the floor below? If not, what would?

I believe the floor is carpeted, and the speakers are not very huge
anyway.

If you're not sure whether the floor is carpeted, I guess you aren't the one
with the speakers. Either way, do you know how the speakers are sited at
present, and what the floor is made of?


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