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i don't have any answers or anything but it does suck. headphones are not the same.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Get open back headphones. They're specifically for audiophiles who think headphones aren't the same. I have some and love them. Ear buds and normal headphones feel like you're trapped in your head. Open back simulate being in the room with music.

Also, fuck you if you play your sorry ass music loud enough that your neighbors can hear it or feel it. I don't care if it's just the sweet part of Fade to Black or the riff on Aerodynamic, if a neighbor plays that shit pound enough to broadcast the muffled remix, it's fucking war.

Edit: actually an unpopular opinion, upvoted

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you want a good open-back pair that is under $100, I thoroughly recommend the Philips SHP9500 to anybody reading this. Been using the same pair I got a few years ago for both gaming and listening to music, and these are some of the best headphones I have used to date. You can often find them in the $50-$75 range online.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I got a set of AKG K240s which aren't even close to the best but of the options available at the guitar center (various Sennheiser, Grado, Audio Technica, etc) the clarity really impressed me. Love those things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I personally recommend Samson's SR850 open back headphones. For $50 they're God damn amazing. Ain't audiophile quality, but a fantastic investment in general and a great way to get a feel for what audiophiles are chasing after.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you blast your music loudly enough to bother your neighbors you deserve to reap the bullshit you've sown.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

beyond a certain point sure, but there's no way to estimate how sensitive they are to reasonable noise either

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I occasionally faintly hear a short sound, but it's not noticeable when I'm focusing on something else and it's only every few hours, I'm fine with it. Any more than that is unacceptable IMO, unless all your neighbors do it and are okay with it somehow.

Maybe I was spoiled by thick walls.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get good over-ear headphones. That should really do. And go to the club for bass treatment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s fine for some people but most people don’t enjoy going to dance clubs.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

True unpopular opinion over here.

headphones are not the same.

Correct. They are a way better option to enjoy music. Unless you're listening to it live, imnho there's no better way to enjoy music than a nice set of headphones. They are perfectly calibrated to produce sound at exactly the right location into your ears. Unless you're comparing them to hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on speakers and sound engineers, no speakers you can buy for under that even come close. That $250 garbage you're annoying your neighbors with certainly does not.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

headphones don't exist in your world?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't agree with them, but it's literally addressed in the second sentence...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Why would you think that's an unpopular opinion?

Wear the headphones. Be a considerate neighbour.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Headphones are better than blasting music with speakers. Noise cancellation brings a new level to music, I’ve noticed details that I’ve never heard before. Be civil and respect your hood.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the one reason I like my shitty little house. My 4 12" subs on my home theater system are not exactly apartment friendly.

Unfortunately that also means having a yard that I hate mowing in the summer, and loathe having to shovel in the winter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have 2 15" subs in the living room for the same reason. The railing of my stairs in the other half of the house starts shaking when I turn them up.

My house is even made out of brick.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Headphones for the love of god.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Addressed in the second or so sentence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I couldn't enjoy my music if I was worried about the neighbours also having to enjoy it. Get some quality headphones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even with headphones I'm worried I'll start singing or rocking out and they'll hear me. And I don't even live in an apartment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Nice to see an unpopular opinion post that's actually unpopular every once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first thing I did after I bought a house was crank the subwoofer to listen to some proper Drum and Bass music.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought a 5.1 setup with a 15" sub. Everyone hates it but me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As long as your only rattling your own windows it's all good!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kittens

By underworld

Or spybreak

By propellerheads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That Matrix lobby scene. Decksandrumsandrockandroll

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Get decent monitors that you can hear music clearly with at lower volumes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh no, consideration for other people

[–] jeanofthedead 3 points 1 year ago

This is why I use Reduce Loud Sounds on the AppleTV, and Night Sound on the Sonos soundbar after 10pm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

no space and no kitchen storage and everyone in my zone of touching walls knows that i am "The Farter"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People need at least one acre of land between each other to live happy lives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can't hear shit through my apartment's walls unless someone is literally banging on the wall/floor/ceiling. I listen to everything the same volume I listened to it in my old house. I don't even have my room mates bitching it's too loud like they used to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah fuck them neighbors. Be polite and don't play music loud before 11am or after 7-8pm. But beyond that you live there and pay rent and deserve to enjoy your domicile however you want given it doesn't hurt anyone. Do you have neighbors with dogs, that bark all the time like I do? Then fuck em, you deserve your music at reasonable times if they get to have dogs that bark for hours at 3am.

Edit: wanted to mention, usually when I get a new neighbor I put a post it on their door with my number saying if the musics ever a bother to call or text me. Be polite like I said, but don't just sit their in agony on a perceived notion that your neighbors will mind a little music during reasonable hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm surprised so many people are against this, everyone makes noise, and I pay $1500 too much to live here so I'm going to make my own version of reasonable noise at the appropriate times.