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I live in a town house and i keep waiting for the neighbors to come banging on my door but nothing as of yet .

Also i am conscious of what time i do watch movies , nothing after 1030ish

Maybe Green Glue can help? At least help it enough to not annoy the neighbors so much? Just search for the "green glue" thread at AVS forum. I haven't used it myself, but the folks there (albeit the seller) are pretty helpful.

My first home I bought when I was 18 was a "mobile Home, trailer on a lot" ... the retired folks in the "mobile home" behind me didn't like my parties, no stop every night, 1974 lots of zepplin and whatever .. after many "incidents" and the big one where he came over and busted in my door and walked in my bedroom at 3:30 am while I was "entertaining" ... he finally gave up!

I got a lot of money for that house! He bought it! Well now that I'am older I see both sides ..... glad for the money worked out for me at 18!

Well i do not listing movies/music pass 10pm. Anyway to be honnest i am surprise how they can feel so much bass. I did myself few test upstairs and it's not that bad. But like he said he think he's like the sound box of the floating bass.
For now i did not got answer to my previous questions :

Do you think placing my subwoofer there, lower the volume, would give me a decent bass without disturbing the neighbor ?
Or placing only one subwoofer behind a couch isn't recommend ?

It's really hard to answer that question without trying. So give it a try. It's not going to cause any physical harm putting the sub behind the couch. It just may ruin the illusion of the bass coming from the screen, and localize it behind you. Only one way to know.

Here we call them duplexes as well.

I'd say talk to the guy and try and make friends. Invite him over for movies if interested and find out his schedule so you can watch movies loud when he is away or out of town.

Give him your number and ask him to call u if things are too loud and you will turn it down.

I've known them as duplexes all my life and more recently as semi-detached; my neice in Toronto now owns one.

Phillipe, the low bass the EP350 plays, as Alan recently pointed out, travels horizontally more so than vertically, this would be why it doesn't sound as loud upstairs.

If the bass is so loud over at the neighbor's house maybe you should be putting your sub over there so it'll be loud in your house instead

Hi Philippe, I’m the Buttkicker promoter you were warned about. I lived in an apartment for 3 years with a full up HT in the living room and never once got a noise complaint despite having my neighbor arrested (yes taken to county lockup) for playing his crappy music to loud at night.

Yup the trick was to turn the subwoofer down, even off very late at night, and using the Buttkicker to give the feel of deep bass, which is how we actually experience it anyway.

Alan is not the only one to think they are gimmicky but IMO if it’s level is tuned in with the rest of my system the low bass feeling is indistinguishable from having my sub turned way up only w/o also shaking the walls. I think most people who have Buttkickers probably run them “hot” so they feel over-the-top. If Sean reads this he can vouch for how it’s worked when he’s been over.

I’ve never really used it for music though that was it’s original purpose, to give bass feedback to stage musicians, though it’s evolved since then. The reason I don’t use it for music is that I’m usually looking for the midbass punch in the chest in music which the Buttkicker doesn’t do.

Otherwise there is really isn’t much you can do that will help to attenuate the very low bass. Placing it directly behind your couch very close may help you a little by having some of the sound absorbed into the couch before it can start bouncing around the room thus allowing you to lower the volume a little. But the reality is that the very low bass is going to pass right through the walls with little trouble.

Hi Grunt,

Thanks for the detailed feedback on the buttkicker. I've never used one. My impression was from a demo at a show, and usually those demoes are over the top.

A buttkicker might be the solution to Philippe's neighbor problem.

Regards,
Alan