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Noise cancellation advice

TJ

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for problems with nuisance noise please, especially neighbours playing bass music. Do any noise cancelling headphones actually work without playing music yourself? I was having palpitations today so any advice would be much appreciated Slight smile

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  • Bass is tough! Lower frequencies are 'felt' in our bones. So you may be able to 'hear' it in your legs for instance. You could talk to your neighbours and ask if there's a better solution. Sometimes the harmonic frequencies resonate "louder" (it's difficult to explain) further away like shockwaves after an earthquake. They could be playing at a low level but it could be resonating on the floorboards and into your flat. Certain elements can amplify these lower frequencies. Sometimes putting a bass amp on rubber flooring can help. 

  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey

    The lower bass frequencies have wavelengths of a couple of metres in length so their energy couples with things of similar size - walls, floors, windows etc.   so they are the most annoying - you can literally feel them vibrate your house.    The only way to get rid of that is to change the sympathetic frequencies of those wall & windows - damping - adding curtains or tapestries or heavy 'paintings' to the wall to increase their mass so there's not enough sound energy available to get them to vibrate.

    Another way is isolation - using different materials to block the path of the energy -  a layer of thin polystyrene with a layer of MDF on top - the polystyrene has no mass to transmit the energy and what gets through isn't enough to bother the MDF.

    In windows, you can add 'Decoralead' fake leaded window material that adds mass to the thin glass - random patterns will kill most frequencies.

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  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey

    The lower bass frequencies have wavelengths of a couple of metres in length so their energy couples with things of similar size - walls, floors, windows etc.   so they are the most annoying - you can literally feel them vibrate your house.    The only way to get rid of that is to change the sympathetic frequencies of those wall & windows - damping - adding curtains or tapestries or heavy 'paintings' to the wall to increase their mass so there's not enough sound energy available to get them to vibrate.

    Another way is isolation - using different materials to block the path of the energy -  a layer of thin polystyrene with a layer of MDF on top - the polystyrene has no mass to transmit the energy and what gets through isn't enough to bother the MDF.

    In windows, you can add 'Decoralead' fake leaded window material that adds mass to the thin glass - random patterns will kill most frequencies.

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