I’ve lived in my apartment for 2 years and have had no issues with any complaints until a new downstairs neighbor moved in a month ago who claims they can here bass coming from my apartment. I’m not throwing any crazy parties or have it at a high volume. I have a speaker on a table that’s sitting on hardwood that I use to listen to music on throughout the day.
I was wondering if anyone knew how I could reduce the sound from it traveling through the floor? Would a rug underneath the table be helpful? What would you recommend?
Love people reading the title and not the body.
You need to decouple the speaker from the floor, it’s likely just vibrating through. Plenty of options out there, I used Auralex Mopads when I lived in an apartment and they helped with my neighbors.
Open communication with the neighbors is super helpful too, especially while you’re trying to solve the problem.
Yeah absolutely this. There is a way that everyone wins here. I will say, I lean more to the side of “it’s my place and I will play my music how I want” but there is a tactful way to approach it. Obviously avoiding quiet hours, and decoupling your speakers as much as possible is a logical step. But it’s impractical for them to expect silence too.
Vibrational energy through the cabinet is going to be a tiny fraction of the bass energy created by the moving cone as part of the operation of the speaker.