Hello Golden,

I keep a small New York City apartment and use an EP500 as an end table at one end of my couch. However, when I purchased the apartment, I intentionally bought on the main floor of the building (the room with the elevator motors is underneath me). No apartment except the one above me shares any common wall. No complaints so far.

By the way, using forward-firing subwoofers will not in any way lessen the potential transmission of acoustical and mechanical vibration through the building structure. Deep bass below 100 Hz is essentially non-directional. It radiates in every direction from a subwoofer, which is really a big, low-frequency air-pressure pump. How those pressure waves interact with the walls, floor and ceiling as well as the framework of the building can't easily be predicted.

Like others here, I would have reservations about using the subwoofer as a TV stand.

Regards,

Alan

Alan Lofft,
Axiom Resident Expert (Retired)