I’m so god damned tired of listening to the low end of everything you listen to. You like bass? Hey, me too. But guess what: you live in an apartment. I live in apartment. Right next door, in fact. Have you heard my music? I love loud music, man, do I! But you haven’t heard it. Because I have neighbours and I’m not an asshole.
You know where I set the volume of my sub? I don’t, I keep that bastard unplugged. It’s not a matter of volume, it’s a matter of physics. It shoots right through the walls and I hear those low frequencies louder than you do. Indistinct sound: bizarre mumbles and rumbles. Phat beats. I hear it through headphones. I hear it through earplugs. Yeah, the good lords know I’ve tried to compromise. I feel it through my body.
Crank it on Friday night for two hours, blast it for three on Saturday. I’m not an unreasonable man. But keep it to an absolute minimum, because, you know, every day for hours is just a bit too much.
Maybe I’m studying. Maybe I work from home. Maybe I work nights and sleep all day. Maybe it’s the dead of winter and I can’t go for a walk because it’s -30 degrees celsius with windchill and I value my skin.
Kill the sub. I’ll beg you. I’ll get down on my knees and I’ll promise you my firstborn. But kill the sub bass. And after awhile you won’t even notice it’s gone. I promise. —Bobby D.
This article appears in Jun 6-12, 2013.
Nicely put Bitch Bobby D, and good on you for really trying to cope–I love loud music too, but I hear you over the dawg. Too bad I am not your neighbour–hope it works out for you, you seem like an uber-reasonable (read: cool) guy:)
I have big towers and I haven’t needed my sub for anything but movies but I sure as hell cut down on the 40-100hz range while listening to music as I don’t want to piss people off. Air pressure can be fun, especially when watching movies. If you want to create the sub-woofer effect without being a total dink, get a butt-kicker. It vibrates your furniture with all the low frequencies your speakers can’t produce. I’m working on introducing them to my system as it really does feel awesome while limiting what neighbors hear.
Hey FC, thanks for the tip–must look into a butt-kicker myself when I get a little cashola….btw, love your moniker FuckingChrist, and your sense of humour!
The name actually stems from my frustration over other monikers being taken. I’d be happy to offer advice when you get it or go to get one. smoketronics seems to have the best prices in Canada as you pay the same you would in the states. Still haven’t found a good Canadian equivalent of Parts Express (solen.ca doesn’t have the same selection and lists every speaker in CM instead of inches. I get it, we use the metric system but for fuck sakes, it hinders things sometimes).
I extend my offer to assist anyone else in their efforts to get one of these units as it will improve not only their quality of life, but that of the people around them. Up next, I will figure out a cheap system to allow the use of headphones and these units.
I know a deaf girl who loves music. Why? Because she’s a huge bass fan. She cranks up the bass and just sits there vibrating in the absolute depths of heaven.
She gets a pass. Everyone else just looks like a giant douchebag showing off their horrifically cheap, fuzzy sound system.
Thanks FC–I will remember that when I am in the market and try to find you on here, it wont be for a while tho. Btw, your moniker is GREAT–I will def remember who to holla for:)…eats_crayons, nice share about the deaf girl you know–that is really cool and I totally agree, she could blast anytime of night or day around me and I would just be “go sista”! Hope the day is treating you both well, with lotsa cool tunes at just the right level;)
You get what you pay for I guess. If you don’t want to share a paper thin wall I would suggest moving to a better place. You put yourself into the situation and expect others to change and accomadate you. Give me a break!
Well Blip, not everyone can afford better accommodations. Normally when that’s said, someone interjects with “well they should stop spending money on X”. Not always the case. Maybe they can’t get enough hours, maybe they have to pay for medical expenses for themselves or others. That said, I don’t think this is a case of “paper thin walls” as you’d get a lot more than low end through that. Bass travels as air pressure, causing surfaces like drywall to flex which causes the space between their wall to become compressed, which in turn puts pressure on the opposing surface.
Even though I could not hear them, I knew my crusader neighbors were playing music, which is offensive to Supreme Allah, (P.B.U.H.). When I requested them to stop in the name of Supreme Allah (P.B.U.H.) they advised me to perform upon myself acts of a sexual nature that would be a sin in the eyes of Supreme Allah (P.B.U.H.)
I then had them charged with Islamophobia
An Ivan by any other name?
Perhaps if you approached your neighbour or asked the building manager to have a word with them, they just might not be aware that they’re annoying you?
Here’s one to get your blood boiling this morning, Baz.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-londo…
I’m actually more pissed off with the magistrate who bought her her pathetic excuse about “only making fun of the design”.
The unpaid community work should involve clearing mines in Khost.
Ivan – love the new logo, my blood had boiled over a few days ago when i saw that response.
Alex Jones – is this guy insane or boosting his ratings?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB7ZaK7Oa88
LOL – Both
He’s just cribbing from a whackadoodle named Jim Marrs, who acts as a sort of Publishers Clearing House for every silly-ass conspiracy theory and paranoiac fantasy peddler with a modem and a stupid name. One of Jesse Ventura’s
primary sources.
I was reading that a UK group called Tell Mama has reported a “shocking” increase in islamophobic attacks since the murder of Drummer Rigby. It seems that expressing your revulsion to a British soldier being butchered on the street, halal style, is as virulent a hate crime as, well, butchering a British soldier on the street halal style. And of course the dhimmis at “the Guardian” (guardian of what – mecca?) are buying into it lock, stock and burka.
Of course, its not all grim news:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57588…
SOBova thought I was going to have an aneurysm from laughing so hard when I read about this>: )
Landlords should actually test high-amp sound systems in their apartment buildings and try and determine what decibel level is actually acceptable to the adjacent apartments on all sides and then write it into the lease. Another thing, why is it so hard if you want to listen to blaring music to use headphones? Seems like common decency to me.
Subwoofer. I always thought that was the underdog in a pack of canines.
Perhaps a friendly knock and request that they keep it down a bit might help? I’m with ya on the bass annoyance. My neighbours used theirs with their surround system and it’d shake everything on my walls. I simply let them know when they had their shit up too high and they were great about turning it down. Eventually, they figured out they should move their tv to the uncommon wall.
If that doesn’t help, contact your super/landlord. Just make sure interactions with your neighbours are friendly.
Great points and advice PK and Reg:) Hope you’re both having a sweet Sunday!
We had a saying in the Dorms….Don’t turn it off, just turn it down.
Oh Reg, what a silly idea. Just plain silly.
And PK, we all can’t just ask our parents to turn it down. Some people have real neighbours that they’re not related to, hard to believe isn’t it.
Not related to the bitch, but I have breaking news guys!
I just slept with sex partner number 90! Ten more to go and I would of slept with 100 women.
I tells ya, it’s great to be me!
Brawdove, as the prophet Muhammed (P.B.U.H.) said in Sura 29 of the Holy Quran:
“Cursed be he who hitteth it and verily then quitteth it.”
anyone who’s seen howard stern’s ‘private parts’ know why even a deaf girl likes to pump up the bass….
I hate bass too… at 5am on a wednesday.
>:-[
Blip, I thought you’d fallen off the radar!
It is nice to some positivity back on the board and everyone does appreciate your constructive criticism. It’s not like you have bitterness and venom dripping off every post. Why would you? You have the love of Jesus on your side.
Nor does it seem like you’re here using up thread space trying to settle old scores and stir up outrage. Anyway have a wonderful day and hopefully not accidentally trip any seniors or kick any little dogs.
With love Reg.
I saw the piece on CBS Sunday morning; Mumsie is now eating minge, or something equally kid friendly.
I’m waiting for the porno version of the Friendly Giant.
In the “new canadian” version : Friendly is in hiding, after drawing a cartoon of Mohammad, the castle has been turned into a mosque, Jerome is forced to grow a beard, Rusty has his throat, windpipe and carotid artery slashed and he’s exsanguinated with his head pointing toward mecca, Angie and Fiddle are stoned to death, the music room is trashed and turned into The Non-Holocaust Museum, and the rocking chair, and big armchair for 2 to curl up in are put out to the curb to make more room for kids to lift their arseholes to allah. And it airs five times a day.
You don’t even want to know what they did to Mr. Dressup when they found out he had a little boy AND a dog living in his backyard. But the video is currently the most shared link on every i-phone from Dubai to Dagestan.
I also heard they stoned the Littlest Hobo for being, well, a dog FFS.