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I just found out that my speakers have been projecting bass down into the apartment below me and causing at least one tenant there grief. I know this, because he knocked on my door to yell at me for a while earlier tonight.
His frustration is understandable--but totally preventable. There've been precedents. First his speakers did the same in the reverse direction. Then mine did, and he mentioned it. So I rearranged (lifting them off the floor, putting cloth and cardboard below and behind them, etc) to mitigate the effect, and left him my phone number so that he could easily tell me if the bass was still booming down to him.
A few months pass, no phone call, no complaints, so I think it's all good.
And then tonight's yelling fit. And the funny thing is I completely agreed with him. There really is no reason any sounds from our apartment should be keeping those below awake, or preventing them from studying properly. That was the very thing I went to talk to him about early on. Furthermore, since I was playing music at a normal volume during the times that he was being bothered, I agreed with his point that we need to not have subwoofers at all if we're going to prevent this problem.
So, seeing as I'm both reasonable, and actually agree with the assessment of the problem as well as the solution, why didn't he just tell me before he got to the point of getting so frustrated that he felt to need to yell at me for a prolonged period? I almost feel bad, but not really, since I gave him a pretty easy way to remedy the situation: call 1 "dude, your music is too loud", call 2: "your music is still too loud. I don't think there's any way to stop a subwoofer from causing problems except to disconnect it". Less than 1 minute total.
It's funny that I'm frustrated with him, considering he was the one who had to put up with random bass blasting him. But it was so eminently preventable-I gave him my number and said "call me if my music is ever reaching down to you." I don't understand why he wouldn't, when it's such a clear step towards remedying a problem. I suppose he might have villified me in his mind, since he didn't even want to let me say anything during his tirade. I will admit I derived some small amusement from his surprised expression when I managed to get
in, 'You're absolutely right, and I would have stopped earlier if you had just called me!'
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