Unpopular Opinion

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

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

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

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.

Why would you think that's an unpopular opinion?

Wear the headphones. Be a considerate neighbour.

headphones don't exist in your world?

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.

Headphones for the love of god.

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.

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

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

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

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

Oh no, consideration for other people

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

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

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

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.

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.