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?
Cut two tennis balls in half and rest the speaker on there. Should mitigate it a little bit.
Might have a nasty room-mode or room-mode(s) in play. Might want to measure your frequency-response and even out the modes. My room, for example, is on the second floor and the house is from the 50s so it’s made of paper.
Used to get comments from downstairs neighbours at the time, ended up finding a +15db room-mode at 45hz.
Turn volume down at least to half. It’s very frustrating for neighbors to hear loud music through walls and floors which sounds like under water sounds and which interferes with people’s own TV and music sounds. Especially thumping music etc. If they complain, then they definitely have a point because they should NOT hear it in the first place. So you really interfere with their privacy and right to have a quiet life.
high pass filter below 40hz
do your best to get the speakers off the floor. Get the speakers on spikes if they are not already, isolation pads between the spikes and floor will help reduce the bass being transferred downward, not only that it will give your bass a more natural sound.