It fucking sucks listening to music in an apartment and feeling no emotional effect from the loud parts besides anxiety about 'oh god will my neighbors complain'
It fucking sucks listening to music in an apartment and feeling no emotional effect from the loud parts besides anxiety about 'oh god will my neighbors complain'
i don't have any answers or anything but it does suck. headphones are not the same.
Get open back headphones. They're specifically for audiophiles who think headphones aren't the same. I have some and love them. Ear buds and normal headphones feel like you're trapped in your head. Open back simulate being in the room with music.
Also, fuck you if you play your sorry ass music loud enough that your neighbors can hear it or feel it. I don't care if it's just the sweet part of Fade to Black or the riff on Aerodynamic, if a neighbor plays that shit pound enough to broadcast the muffled remix, it's fucking war.
Edit: actually an unpopular opinion, upvoted
If you want a good open-back pair that is under $100, I thoroughly recommend the Philips SHP9500 to anybody reading this. Been using the same pair I got a few years ago for both gaming and listening to music, and these are some of the best headphones I have used to date. You can often find them in the $50-$75 range online.
1000x this
I got a set of AKG K240s which aren't even close to the best but of the options available at the guitar center (various Sennheiser, Grado, Audio Technica, etc) the clarity really impressed me. Love those things.
I personally recommend Samson's SR850 open back headphones. For $50 they're God damn amazing. Ain't audiophile quality, but a fantastic investment in general and a great way to get a feel for what audiophiles are chasing after.
If you blast your music loudly enough to bother your neighbors you deserve to reap the bullshit you've sown.
beyond a certain point sure, but there's no way to estimate how sensitive they are to reasonable noise either
If I occasionally faintly hear a short sound, but it's not noticeable when I'm focusing on something else and it's only every few hours, I'm fine with it. Any more than that is unacceptable IMO, unless all your neighbors do it and are okay with it somehow.
Maybe I was spoiled by thick walls.
True unpopular opinion over here.
headphones are not the same.
Correct. They are a way better option to enjoy music. Unless you're listening to it live, imnho there's no better way to enjoy music than a nice set of headphones. They are perfectly calibrated to produce sound at exactly the right location into your ears. Unless you're comparing them to hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on speakers and sound engineers, no speakers you can buy for under that even come close. That $250 garbage you're annoying your neighbors with certainly does not.
Why would you think that's an unpopular opinion?
Wear the headphones. Be a considerate neighbour.
headphones don't exist in your world?
I don't agree with them, but it's literally addressed in the second sentence...
Headphones are better than blasting music with speakers. Noise cancellation brings a new level to music, I’ve noticed details that I’ve never heard before. Be civil and respect your hood.
Headphones for the love of god.
Addressed in the second or so sentence.
It's the one reason I like my shitty little house. My 4 12" subs on my home theater system are not exactly apartment friendly.
Unfortunately that also means having a yard that I hate mowing in the summer, and loathe having to shovel in the winter.
I have 2 15" subs in the living room for the same reason. The railing of my stairs in the other half of the house starts shaking when I turn them up.
My house is even made out of brick.
I couldn't enjoy my music if I was worried about the neighbours also having to enjoy it. Get some quality headphones.
Even with headphones I'm worried I'll start singing or rocking out and they'll hear me. And I don't even live in an apartment.
Nice to see an unpopular opinion post that's actually unpopular every once in a while.
The first thing I did after I bought a house was crank the subwoofer to listen to some proper Drum and Bass music.
I bought a 5.1 setup with a 15" sub. Everyone hates it but me.
As long as your only rattling your own windows it's all good!
Kittens
By underworld
Or spybreak
By propellerheads
That Matrix lobby scene. Decksandrumsandrockandroll
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Get decent monitors that you can hear music clearly with at lower volumes.
Oh no, consideration for other people
This is why I use Reduce Loud Sounds on the AppleTV, and Night Sound on the Sonos soundbar after 10pm.
no space and no kitchen storage and everyone in my zone of touching walls knows that i am "The Farter"
People need at least one acre of land between each other to live happy lives.
You can't hear shit through my apartment's walls unless someone is literally banging on the wall/floor/ceiling. I listen to everything the same volume I listened to it in my old house. I don't even have my room mates bitching it's too loud like they used to.
Nah fuck them neighbors. Be polite and don't play music loud before 11am or after 7-8pm. But beyond that you live there and pay rent and deserve to enjoy your domicile however you want given it doesn't hurt anyone. Do you have neighbors with dogs, that bark all the time like I do? Then fuck em, you deserve your music at reasonable times if they get to have dogs that bark for hours at 3am.
Edit: wanted to mention, usually when I get a new neighbor I put a post it on their door with my number saying if the musics ever a bother to call or text me. Be polite like I said, but don't just sit their in agony on a perceived notion that your neighbors will mind a little music during reasonable hours.
Yeah I'm surprised so many people are against this, everyone makes noise, and I pay $1500 too much to live here so I'm going to make my own version of reasonable noise at the appropriate times.
Yo fuck all these people saying to use headphones. How am I supposed to jam out with headphones in? Then you just have the anxiety of them flying out or off of your ears.
Nothing like cranking the tunes and dancing your heart out.
Luckily I live above a business and they are gone after 10 and loud music during the day as long as it's not for too long isn't a big deal.