Thumps in the night

03/Sep/2010

Name and address supplied.

Comments: 6 readers have left a comment

WHAT is it that people cannot understand about thumping music?

Not everyone wants to be up at 11.30 at night having to put up with the racket that comes through closed windows and doors as if it was in the kitchen.

It came in from two different directions last Saturday. It’s bad enough when it is going on early in the evening but when it gets cranked up late at night, it is too much.

Offenders: how about you learn consideration for others who would like to get some sleep?

What everyone else is thinking

norm snell

20/09/2010

I agree with the writer of this letter. Low frequency sound has the capacity to travel through brick walls while other frequency levels are blocked out. This results in a continual thumping. It is similar to a range of industrial noises, which under zoning laws would not be permitted. Those who argue for freedom to do this would be upset if the tables were turned and thumping bass was directed back at them as ongoing noise pollution. It is a fairly recent phenomenon and is the consequence of sound technologies that are now widely available in the market place.

Stanley

14/09/2010

Yes Peter, good music dose need bass but at a party it is realy only background noise that you all have to shout over to hear each other. If it's too loud for some then they have protected their hearing over the years whereas you yourself could be very tone deaf from loud bass vibrations. Have you had your hearing tested lately ! before it's all gone.

Peter

14/09/2010

Sorry Stanley but music needs bass...if its too loud your unfortunately to old:(

Stanley

09/09/2010

LOL, Oh come on Peter, fessup. It's realy not just ONE night a year is it. All you need to do is keep the thumping bass turned off and you will still have your music without the thumping hangover soothing head banging bass shaking the ground for miles around you.

Peter

06/09/2010

Not everyone wants to put up with people going to bed so early either. Nothing worse then a party being cut short at 12pm, when most parties start getting good, because a neighbour has complained to the police, about the one night of the year that their neighbour has decided to celebrate something. Have some consideration for those that want to entertain people at their house instead of going out to violent areas. Music should be loud enough to have some quality fun and as long as partying doesnt extend past 3am, up loud should be ok. If people want to push their quiet ways of life on to every body else then why cant people who make noise do the same. The lovers of quietness need to share the environment, they get it their way 99% of the time, its about time they learnt to give others the chance of living life the way they like it even for just ONE night of the year.

Stanley

03/09/2010

Thumping music, if it can be called music, is what makes people tone deaf from the loud base thumping away. The deafer they get the louder they need to have the thumping to hear it. Sadly for them it gets to the point that they are feeling the vibrations around them thinking it is the music. Turn the bass off or keep it high at mid range to stop the thumping vibrations and save your hearing.