Neighbor With Loud Music!!!!!!

Radio Man · Feb 24, 2005

My basement apartment neighbor plays his very
loud cd stereo system. (rap music) His system is approximately twelve
feet from my 1st flr apt. I tried a rational conversation with
him as well as complaining to the landlord but to no avail.
Is there a means of electrically interferring with his stereo?
Unfortunately a signal generator has no affect. I don't care
about the legality of any suggestions i undertake! I just want
results!!! The above has been cross posted with other groups.

Thank You

Anthony Fremont · Feb 24, 2005

"Radio Man" <puns@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Get a ham radio license. An indoor antenna and the proper selection of
frequency and output power will fix you(him) right up.

Chris W · Feb 24, 2005

Radio Man wrote:

Getting one of those gadgets to play your portable mp3 player on your
car radio, through an FM station, would work. Put in some classical
music, and plug this thing
http://www.myfmstation.com/html/audiax_ii.html
into the head phone jack of whatever is playing the music and tune it to
the station he is listening to. On second thought getting one of those
test CD's that have a "white noise" test signal on them might be better,
or maybe plug it into the output of an AM radio that is tuned into some
good static lol.

If he is playing CD's or tapes, you will need something more than a
simple transmitter to stop it. A strong electromagnetic pulse can,
depending on the strength and distance, permanently or temporarily
disable any electronic device with in range. I wouldn't recommend doing
that though, since it could kill anything electronic in your apartment
and his. A lower intensity pulse would be safer but you would have to
be very close to his stereo to have any effect.

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JeffM · Feb 24, 2005

Rich is right. This is a legal matter.
Doing something illegal yourself will weaken your case.
Let the cops and judges do their jobs.
You're paying them anyway.

You often only get someone's attention when it starts costing him
money.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.electronics.basics/browse_frm/thread/72480b207dbaceb5/b7f12270acbf9b61?q=disturbing-the-peace+have-them-arrested&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3Ddisturbing-the-peace+have-them-arrested%26qt_s%3DSearch+Groups%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#b7f12270acbf9b61

Bob · Feb 24, 2005

The word "rap" should never be used as an adjective for "music".

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man afire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Bob

Gareth · Feb 24, 2005

Radio Man wrote:

Maybe, but a signal powerful enough to do so would interfere with lots
of other electrical devices in your area. This could result in you
getting into serious trouble, as well as being a danger to your health.

I suggest that you look up the relevant laws in your area and make a
complaint to the relevant authority. For example, in England it is an
offence under the "Environmental Protection Act 1990" to cause a noise
nuisance. I'm sure your country will have similar laws.

Try Googling for:

<your city name> "noise nuisance"

Gareth.

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mike · Feb 25, 2005

Radio Man wrote:

If you're unconcerned with legality, forget about electrical devices.
Devices from Smith & Wesson have been known to provide excellent
results.
On the off chance that you really ARE concerned with legality, borrow a
sound level meter
and verify that the noise exceeds the legal level in your situation.
Cops may even have one they can help you with.
Often, annoying sound levels are perfectly legal. Know where you stand
legally before you proceed. Intentionally interfering (electromagnecly)
with his music
IS illegal. You may become the only criminal involved in the dispute.
mike

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Mar 8, 2005

Would those "noise-cancelling headphones" work in this case?

Mike

Fred Abse · Mar 8, 2005

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:16:20 -0800, mike-nospam wrote:

The ones that some airlines (notably American) hand out with the DVD
players certainly do work. Wearing those, I can actually sleep on an
airplane.

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Roger Johansson · Mar 8, 2005

mike-nospam@darrettenterprises.com wrote:

Yes, if you can afford them. But it becomes very irritating to have them
on for long periods of time. You can hardly learn to sleep with them on,
and getting to sleep whenever you feel like it is essential in this
situation.

It is possible to build a big version of noise cancelling headphones, so
you can live inside the chamber instead of just putting your ear inside
it.

Build a passive shield. Walls and a roof over a big bed with
television, computer and stereo inside. If the disturbance from from
under your apartment you can start by putting a thick layer of mats on
the floor. The quality of the walls is not so important, as long as it
dampens the sound 20-40dB or more.

Mount a big loudspeaker in the wall closest to the noise source. Put a
microphone further away from yourself outside the walls.

Amplify the signal from the mic and send it to the loudspeaker, with a
polarity switch, so you can choose the best cancelling polarity. The same
speaker can serve as the center bass speaker in your stereo inside the
walls, mix the bass signal and the noise cancelling signal.

I have not tried electronic noise cancelling yet, but I am working on it.

Not that I have extremely noisy neighbors but I am used to live in the
forest and I am hypersensitive to noise from neighbors.

Another strategy you can try is to print out flyers or small books about
creationism in theory and practice, and explain how detrimental to
humankind these old traditions and initiation rites are.

It can be in the form of an initation to join the "Humanists against
Creationism" movement. A movement which tries to put an end to the
traditional "creation" of manly minds and the "creation" of the eternal
love, and the "creation" of the holy marriage, and the "creation" of the
holy mind, based on the holy wrath.

All this "creating" requires a lot of violence and mobbing, to make men
very very angry, determined and controlled before the girls make him
happy, or he dies.

These social "creation" processes have been going on for many thousands
of years. These traditions and gender roles are beginning to dissolve in
our modern world, but they are still very much alive.

We see how women in the western industrialized world try to become more
like men. But it is probably not a good idea, to abolish the male
dominated structure by making everybody into men.

The feeling of invincibility and almightyness the man born from anger and
love experiences is nice for him personally, but it has detrimental
effects on all others in his social environment.

The others are naturally scared, because a real man is a powder keg just
waiting to explode, even if he can be a symbol for safety and protection
too. His selfconfidence and "love" are built on a foundation of extreme
anger, which take years to build up. All who accept his mental
dictatorship feel nice and cosy with him, like his own girl friend/wife.

Their kids have no choice but to accept the intensive mental atmosphere
they grow up in. It can be a positive or negative experience, but it is
always more intensive and excited than the untrained natural mind. The
not-created mind is closer to a natural state of mind, but most of us
have been strongly influenced from the creationist lifestyle in the
society around us.

As long as we are convinced that the "supernatural" male mind power is
friendly, as we are as kids, it can seem like a positive thing. When we
are thrown out of the social environment through violence we are in a
terrible situation.

If you want more information about humanism versus creationism use
google.

Create a nice document from this and put it in all mailboxes in your
area. Create a web page too, and a yahoo group

put links to the web
in the flyers. Make your neighbors understand how many humanists there
are, in one way or another. Make them understand which side is which. Who
are working to conserve the traditions and who are trying to replace them
with new ideas, like democracy, individual freedom, equality, human
rights, civil rights, ets.. Make them shut up in shame.

If you are lucky this will put an end to all noise and disturbances.
If you are unlucky you will just have started a global civil war which
will go on for generations. That's why a lot of people are trying other
alternatives. You see and hear them all the time in media.
This is what everybody is talking about, all the time, on all channels,
more or less successfully.

You need an unnaturally excited brain to hear what they are really
saying.

With good sound proofing you can ignore it all and sleep, and build
electronics, instead. And think more clearly than any of those minds
which are blinded by anger, created love, self-determination, ego, sex,
alcohol, will-power, etc..

Welcome to the real world.

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Rich Grise · Feb 24, 2005

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:24:43 +0000, Radio Man wrote:

Is there anything in your lease about noise? If the landlord
is not providing a habitable space, you probably have legal
rights. Look over your lease very carefully. There is very
likely some kind of organization you can go to that can help
you out with this - like an injunction where if the landlord
doesn't stop the noisemaker, you can legally withhold the
rent or something.

THAT will get his attention!

But in any case, don't lower yourself to his level of classlessness
by retaliating - that only makes things worse.

Good Luck!
Rich

Kitchen Man · Feb 26, 2005

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:35:04 GMT in sci.electronics.basics, "Anthony
Fremont" <spam@anywhere.com> wrote msg
<s7pTd.42283$cW2.1810@fe2.texas.rr.com>:

A CB radio might do the trick. Believe it or not, similar problems
arise in military barracks. I saw a case where the problem was
reversed, a friend who never intruded with his music would get his
speakers filled with lively trucker conversation from a fellow
downstairs who ran a CB base station. I'm not sure what level the
interference creeped in at, he said the CB audio would not be picked up
when doing audio recording.

Bear in mind that intentionally becoming a nuisance is a bit boorish.

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Roger Johansson · Feb 26, 2005

Kitchen Man <nannerbac@yahoo.com> wrote:

You can put up a screen of your own sounds, by playing some music all the
time, 24/7, which will mask most of the sounds from the neighbor. Your
music does not have to be anywhere near as loud as your neighbors music,
because you are a lot closer to your own music. I have found this to be
the best remedy against disturbances from neighbors.

Put stereo loudspeakers very close to your bed, so you can rest in your
own universe of sounds, which is under your own control. Choose some
music you can get used to hear constantly. If the disturbances consists
mainly of bass sounds you can choose music with a lot of bass, to mask
the bass sounds. Using a sound editor like cooledit you can even create
special sound files, which disturb yourself as little as possible, and
mask the unwanted noises as much as possible.

You can also build passive sound screens around the places in your
apartment where you spend most time. Around the bed, and the workbench.
The masking music works even better if you have some passive isolation
too, because you can hear your own music, inside the screen, better than
the noise, from outside the screen. And the screen dampens the sound of
your own music, so your other neighbors do not complain about you.

A passive soundscreen can be made from some wooden planks and some heavy
cloth material, like mats, old type mattresses, blankets, etc.. Modern
light materials like light-weight foam plastic and microfiber blankets
are useless for damping sound. The material has to be heavy.
Fiber board is good, with heavy materials like wool blankets covering all
surfaces, both inside and outside.

You can use a passive soundscreen in just one direction, or in more
directions. Maybe you end up with a small house around your bed, your tv,
your stereo and your computer, a small house inside your apartment.
Your own little world, where neighbors cannot disturb you, where you can
rest and sleep any time of day.

--
Roger J.

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