How Do You Get Home Theater Bass Without Annoying The Neighbors?
Apartments and close neighbors make using a subwoofer all but impossible. The same is true of late night movies when the children are asleep. Getting enough bass to enjoy the movie without having the police knock on your door is possible without recalibrating your system repeatedly. Use a few tricks to tame the bass and let sleeping neighbors be. Soundproof the theater with double drywall or sound absorbing materials. Bass transfers through any open spaces so adding wall insulation to deaden sound helps. Take advantage when building a new home and invest in a fully soundproofed theater installation. Use an interior room where bass waves have a chance to dissipate before getting out of the house or apartment walls. Line the room with heavy fabric wall coverings to reduce bass travel. Hook up a bass module to lower the bass level in the room without the booming, wall shaking power of a subwoofer. Bass modules don’t go down to the frequencies of a subwoofer but can nicely fill a room with
