What people describe.

A poster believes a neighbour is retaliating for an earlier noise complaint by playing a repetitive low-frequency sound all night that only they can hear, and asks how to record and identify it. A reply explained most mics cannot capture very low frequencies and suggested wiring a woofer as a makeshift microphone, warning it would mostly pick up their own belongings rattling.

Feature on Korean inter-floor noise conflicts: a downstairs resident retaliated with a ceiling-mounted woofer and a fan rigged to strike the ceiling (from an online video); other complainants report insomnia, hair loss and neurasthenia. In one case a mediation visit traced night-time 'hammering' to air in a boiler's water pipes, which was then removed.

“윗집에서 나는 물소리 때문에 잠을 잘 수 없었다”

A college dorm resident kept up at night by loud neighbors says polite requests brought insults, so they angled a subwoofer at the adjoining wall so only those neighbors would hear it. After the neighbors left a hostile note, the RA and an advisor sided with the poster and the neighbors were reprimanded.

A poster kept awake nightly by an upstairs neighbor's bass says ceiling-banging and confronting the neighbor's mother failed, so they pressed a home-theater subwoofer against the ceiling and played loud game audio for 90 minutes, then left a warning note. They report the nights were quiet afterward.

A poster says a neighbour has been playing low-level, low-frequency bass around the clock for nearly three months, calls it harassment, and says they are one of roughly 1 in 50 people who can hear it while nobody else can. Replies said only a room-within-a-room would block it; no resolution.

“I have a neighbour who is harassing me with low level bass.”

A college dorm resident says neighbors ran a subwoofer late at night and that requests and RA complaints failed, so they transmitted a high-power radio signal that blew out the neighbors' subwoofer. The neighbors went quiet.

In Cheongju, after months of noise disputes, a resident mounted a large retaliation speaker on the ceiling and left it playing baby crying, hammering and washing-machine sounds while at work; the downstairs household called police thinking a baby was in distress. The resident was booked on assault-related charges; police said extreme noise causing harm can constitute assault without physical contact.

“신체 접촉이 없더라도 극심한 소음으로 피해자가 신체적·정신적 피해를 본 경우 폭행죄가 성립할 수 있다”

Report on retaliation woofer speakers sold in Korea with a manual telling buyers to ignore mediation and police. Anonymous reviews express satisfaction that the upstairs household is 'in a frenzy'; one buyer who had psychiatric treatment for noise wanted the upstairs neighbors to suffer too, and a Namyangju buyer claimed the upstairs neighbors moved out. Police note ceiling-speaker retaliation can be punished under the Minor Offenses Act.

“속이 다 시원하다. 윗집이 난리가 났다”

Australian poster believes a neighbour uses a low-frequency subwoofer or speaker specifically to disturb them: quiet tones at night, then a sudden boost to jolt them awake. White noise through earphones seems to amplify it, and recordings do not capture the tone. Single reply suggests building a case and going to police.

“when I even managed to finally get some sleep, they boost it up to abruptly jolt me awake.”

A poster (quoting their own earlier 2009 comment) described a ringing, pulsing pressure felt inside the ears with no audible sound even outdoors, plus jitteriness, raised heart rate, tingling and chills, which they believed a neighbor was directing at their home with a homemade device. Earplugs did not help. Replies suggested ultrasonic pest/alarm devices or blood pressure and stress.

“the sound/pressure is a sound that is only audible to my inner ear and can't be heard the traditional way.”

Oregon homeowner says two neighbors play infrasound/sub-bass at all hours; one is described as weaponizing it, causing eardrum pain that permeates the whole house. The renter's landlord dismissed complaints; asker wants a sound engineer to set up monitoring to get proof.

“After a night of it, I feel like my ears are bleeding.”

A tenant says the people upstairs use something that shakes the apartment with a low vibration whose frequency they vary, running day and night with almost no audible sound; the poster believes it is a remote-controlled 'building shaker' sold to annoy neighbours and asks whether a vibration meter could prove it. One commenter suggests a treadmill and asking management to come discreetly.

“It's a low vibration and they change the frequency.”

Under a video testing whether a 震楼器 really works, a commenter (801 likes) says they are using one right now because they had no other option, having previously stood outside the upstairs door pleading with the neighbours 'like a grandson'.

“我现在就在用，实在是没办法”

Fact-check piece on Korean 'retaliation' products (rubber mallets, ceiling hammers, woofer speakers). Online posters claim success, e.g. that the noise ended as soon as a woofer was installed. It recounts a 2018 Incheon case where a downstairs couple aimed woofer noise upstairs; the upstairs couple were diagnosed with anxiety and depression and moved out, and the court ordered about 30 million won in damages and rent.

“들은 체도 안 하던 윗집이 고무망치 사용 첫날 찾아와서 바로 사과하고 조용해졌다”

A top-floor tenant says that after asking the new downstairs neighbour not to run subwoofers after midnight, the neighbour turned the volume down but kept pushing bass so the floors everywhere pulsate and vibrate; the poster asks whether a bass system of their own could cancel it.

“Everywhere I walk and lay in my apartment vibrates and pulsates.”

A downstairs resident posts an unboxing of a 震楼器 bought to retaliate against a newly arrived upstairs family whose children jump every evening; says they spoke to the family, called property management and police without result and now resort to 'fighting violence with violence'. In a later pinned comment the uploader says they know the device is not illegal 'but disturbing residents is', that they tried many countermeasures and the shaker was the least effort, and that 'everyone ended up hurt'.

“物业，警察都找过但是还是不改，现在只能以暴制暴了”

A downstairs resident documents running a 震楼器 plus a 共振音响 (resonance speaker) against an upstairs family whose children run around; the description says that when the upstairs went quiet at midday for a nap the poster switched the devices on 'so they can taste being woken up', and references an earlier video in which half the building's residents came to the poster's door after the shaker was used. A 2023 uploader comment says they have since moved out 'escaping the sea of suffering' and plan to sell the shaker cheaply.

“我也让它们尝尝睡觉被吵醒的感觉”

Report that Korean noise victims are buying low-frequency woofer speakers for retaliation (one listing with ~1,900 purchases and 3,000+ reviews). Reviewers say no authority solves inter-floor noise; a forum user posted installation photos; another describes escalation where the upstairs neighbor added more devices after each complaint about night-time vibration noise. Police said they would apply the new Stalking Punishment Act to repeated noise harassment.

“경찰, 이웃사이센터, 관리소 등 아무도 층간소음을 해결해 주지 않는다.”

A former student describes a neighbor who harassed them with complaints and wall-banging at night; after a sleepless night they played a low-frequency tone through a subwoofer pressed against the shared wall in retaliation. The conflict ended when the neighbors moved out.

A resident suffering from upstairs noise uploads a 50 Hz hum audio file described as a 'weapon to fight back against upstairs noise', dedicated to 'friends who are likewise suffering from upstairs noise'; 173k views, 160 comments. A commenter (30 likes) says they put it against the wall to shake the next-door unit while wearing earmuffs themselves.

“给同样遭受楼上噪音的友友们”

An apartment tenant says neighbours have blasted a subwoofer from 9 pm to 5 am nightly for four weeks; after complaints they switched to one-minute full-volume bursts every twenty minutes through the night. Knocking and building security visits made it louder, phone recordings fail, and the poster is weighing buying a subwoofer in retaliation versus going to police.

“turning their base on for about 1 minute at full volume and then turning it off for approximately 20 minutes”

A poster whose household was disturbed by weekday parties downstairs says asking the neighbors to quiet down failed, so they played a video game through speakers pointed at the floor for several hours. They report the neighbors' noise became reasonable for the rest of the lease.

A tenant whose downstairs neighbours were on a final eviction warning for night-time bass reports that two weeks later a clear floor vibration began, first one hour on and one hour off at night, now about half the time; it is felt in bed and was confirmed by a visiting sibling. The poster suspects a retaliation device, notes it seems to start when they walk around, left a note, and is reluctant to involve the landlord.

“I can feel it when I'm laying in bed which sucks.”

An adult child reports that a long-feuding next-door neighbour of their parents set up a subwoofer playing a low-frequency tone or looped bass test tracks, producing a constant deep hum in the parents' house. Police previously ticketed him for loud music, but since the switch to low frequency officers cannot hear it on arrival; the parents are considering selling.

“since the change to low frequency the cops can't hear the sound when they come”

A mainland Chinese resident posts a video titled 'I'm being shaken by my downstairs neighbour's 震楼器 (floor-shaker), what do I do?', asking for help as the VICTIM of a deliberate vibration device. The video has about 34k views and 228 comments; top comments argue about whether victims of shakers 'deserve it' for being noisy themselves.

“我被楼下用震楼器震了，怎么办？”

A college student says the downstairs neighbour, after months of jabbing at the floor, now leaves on a device that produces a constant buzzy vibration through the floor so that the poster cannot sit and has stood for hours; security was called but the neighbour would not answer the door.

“I can't even sit because all I feel is vibration”

An apartment tenant plagued by bassy booms from the neighbours' living-room home theatre set up their own subwoofer against the shared wall; the constant vibration through the wall now masks the neighbours' booms, and the neighbours texted to complain. Asks whether this retaliation is wrong.

“now that the wall has a constant vibration going through it, I can no longer hear the bassy booms”

A man in Jinju, angry at a neighbor over noise, mounted a woofer on his living-room ceiling and 21 times transmitted a low-frequency machine sound resembling phone vibration. The court ruled the repeated deliberate harassment constituted stalking and fined him 7 million won.

“이웃을 지속해서 고의로 괴롭힌 행위가 스토킹에 해당한다고 보고”

Under a viral clip about an upstairs neighbour installing a 震楼器 at night, a renter says they heard a massage-chair-like rhythmic thudding (咚咚咚) from the unit above in a previous rental, the characteristic sound of a shaker.

“听着楼上有按摩椅那种咚咚咚的声”

A renter says the downstairs unit's sound system shakes their floors and drowns out their TV, and suspects it began as retaliation after they complained about the neighbors' barking dog. The neighbors stay within official quiet hours, which limits recourse.

A New York supportive-housing tenant says a next-door neighbor plays low-frequency vibration through a transducer or bass shaker, especially when the tenant is alone, and describes it as a 'silent weapon'. Building management and city agencies reportedly did not help and they seek tenant-rights assistance.

A poster says neighbors play loud bass-heavy music and talking to them did not help, so they ask for the cheapest, loudest speaker or subwoofer (around $100) to play music back at them from a garage or outside as revenge.

A subletting tenant believes a neighbor deliberately wakes them every night with short bursts of vibration, alarms, subwoofer bass and ceiling thumping, leaving them exhausted. They are reluctant to complain because they are subletting against building policy and the downstairs unit has complained about their own footsteps.

A Japanese homeowner recounts a long feud with an elderly next-door neighbor that followed a plumbing complaint: a sustained low-frequency 'フィーー' tone like an off-hook phone around 4:30 a.m., shutters slammed repeatedly, boiler test runs at 10:30-11 p.m., grinding noise from 4 p.m., banging on the shared-side wall at night. A city employee and contractors inspected and found the plumbing fault was on the neighbor's side.

“フィーーーーーーん”

A poster trying to find a low-frequency noise in their home reports a spectrum spike near 25 Hz and a 150 Hz component they link to the third harmonic of local mains frequency, and tested by switching off appliances and eventually the main fuse.

Asker's close neighbor leaves a TV on 24/7 and the resulting throb is felt as vibration rather than heard, so a decibel meter will not register it; they ask how to record it. Unanswered, but an embedded answer from another user describes six years of LFN from an upstairs flat and sleeping under an improvised mattress shelter.

“The sound travels through the space between the floors where there is no insulation and the goes through the ceiling into my bedroom.”

A poster says their bed vibrates from a low tone they believe comes from the neighbour's house and asks engineers whether something is physically coupled to their home or whether the sound travels through ground or air.

A German resident reports humming noises audible only at night with varying intensity; the heating had been checked and neighbors asked about night-time appliances without result. They suspected a neighbor's medical device such as an oxygen concentrator; a commenter suggested a washing machine spin cycle.

A Spanish resident describes a constant low-frequency noise of somewhat variable intensity that their sound meter does not register and that they could not locate by asking neighbors; a professional replied that such noise usually comes from poorly anchored climate-control equipment transmitting vibration through walls and floors.

A German ground-floor tenant hears a constant electrical-sounding hum, most noticeable at the walls and at night, that prevents sleep. They suspect the new building heating installed seven weeks earlier, a lift emergency phone line, or humming electricity meters in the basement; the noise persisted with the heating off and the utility denied its meters were responsible.

“Nachts wenn draußen alles ruhig ist, lässt mich dieses Geräusch nicht zum Schlafen kommen.”

A building professional asked on behalf of a client whose house, 150 feet from a neighbor, hears a muted pulsing at night whenever the neighbor's deep-well pump runs, with nothing audible outdoors, suggesting ground-borne transmission through granite bedrock. An editor reframed it as submersible well-pump noise and said they had never seen such transmission.

“There is no noticeable sound outside the house,as it would be if traveling through the air.”

A UK homeowner in a semi-detached house describes an incessant low-volume pulsing LFN from about midnight to 8 am for three years, causing exhaustion and headaches, only noticeable indoors. They bought a measurement microphone to capture evidence for the council and suspect a neighbour's always-on equipment such as a security server, or building vibration.

“an incessant pulsing but at a low volume”

A multi-unit resident says a next-door neighbour's sound vibrates their walls on a set daily schedule, often from 10:30 am until 2 or 3 am, and asks how to record it through the wall as evidence.

“My walls are vibrating at 2am!”

A mobile-home resident describes neighbours' bass below 250 Hz that they feel more than hear, with sleeplessness, hours-long headaches, rattling dishes and pictures falling; police said they could not hear it and demanded proof. They bought a sound level meter and tried a laptop mic, rubber mats, tyres against the wall and white noise, none of which worked; replies suggested a calibrated acoustic consultant and small-claims court.

“I feel the vibrations more than hear them.”

A US homeowner measured sub-250 Hz bass at 78-105 dB(C) that shakes the suspended floor, walls and ceiling, rattles dishes and knocks pictures down; they feel it more than hear it, cannot sleep and get hours-long headaches. Neighbors deny owning subwoofers, police say they cannot hear it and will not act without proof, code enforcement was unhelpful, and earplugs caused ear infections. Replies suggested hiring an acoustic consultant for court-grade measurements or small claims court.

“I feel the vibrations more than hear them.”

Residents of a first-floor Victorian conversion describe a persistent low hum/buzz originating in the lounge party wall and carrying through the flat so it feels like the whole property vibrates, running in roughly 30-minute cycles from about 7:30am to midnight. The adjacent upstairs neighbour hears the same buzz and each thought it came from the other; downstairs flats hear nothing.

“its feels like the whole property is humming / vibrating”

A French co-owner reports a night-time noise since August 2017 that grew constant and loud, heard by other residents, keeping the family awake and giving their 3-year-old headaches. After cutting electricity in each unit and the building's water without effect, they traced it to loose caps on rooftop ventilation columns and defective guy cables making the TV antenna mast vibrate through the building.

“Depuis Aout 2017, un bruit se déclenche la nuit”

A couple two months into a Queens apartment say the downstairs neighbour's speaker system shakes the living-room furniture and vibrates their bed through the floor several nights a week; two polite door visits got a shrug. They have iPhone recordings but ask how to capture the bass convincingly for the landlord and are considering moving.

“the bass vibrates our entire apartment”

A homeowner says a neighbour across the street and three houses down plays bass so loud the house shakes like an earthquake and a dish fell. Phone videos did not capture it, so on police advice she used C-weighted SPL apps and recorded up to 112 dB(C) plus video of water jumping, against a 50 dB city ordinance; dispatch still did not act when called. Follow-up to an earlier post.

“I quickly learned that the SPL meter cannot read bass through the A-weighting scale; you need the C-weighting”

Renter on the first floor (British usage) has had several days of an idling-motor vibration felt through floor, chair and bed, unlocatable outside; letters to neighbours about new appliances got no reply, phone meter reads a constant 30 dB, radio does not mask it. Repliers suggest a stethoscope, breaker test, fish tanks, and one recounts years of idling trucks a block away rattling dishes until they moved.

“I feel like the whole building is buzzing around me. Hardly slept a wink last night.”

Apartment resident feels the shared wall, floor and bed vibrate with a whirring, spinning-up sensation but hears nothing; lying on a living-room mattress the vibration went through their chest. The considerate neighbour admits owning a subwoofer but doubts it is the cause; visiting friends felt it too.

“These are all just feelings, I can't hear anything. Once I had my mattress on the living room floor and the vibration went right through my chest”

A Washington State resident says they constantly detect infrasound and low-frequency vibration (roughly 0.8-30 Hz) at home and around the area, and uses the phyphox accelerometer spectrum to try to locate the source. A moderator explained accelerometer readings are not sound pressure and phone mics miss most infrasound; the poster acknowledged the app would not identify the source.

“I use the Acceleration Spectrum feature of phyphox to monitor infrasound and low-frequency vibration”

A Virginia tenant spent months tracing faint, intermittent bass before locating it two units over from the one directly above (after first suspecting the wrong neighbor); it comes from a shooting video game for hours, a maintenance worker confirmed hearing it, and the office has not acted. They ask about the right to quiet enjoyment.

“I recently read there was a right to quite enjoyment clause.”

A tenant on the top floor of a 1930s Paris-area building has felt a continuous droning for two months, louder indoors and in the bathroom; a phone spectrum app shows a peak near 25 Hz. They wake about twice a night, have anxiety attacks and tingling in joints when lying down, and suspect roadworks, an idling van, a street blower or a ventilation unit; tripping their own breaker changed nothing.

“Sa présence me mine psychologiquement et physiquement.”

Owner of a Dutch new-build hears a constant hum/airflow-like sound through the house, almost deafening at rest in the bedroom; earplugs cut traffic but not the hum. They shut off water, electricity, gas and ventilation without effect, and suspect an office building's ventilation outlet facing the home, a nearby station, or unsealed ducts; a reply suggested a neighbor's heat pump.

“Ik kan dit niet volhouden, je wordt er gek van.”

An apartment renter directly below a neighbour who plays video games says bass thumps rattle glasses and shake lampshades; phone recordings sounded like electrical interference, so they bought a 20 Hz-rated USB mic to produce proof for the landlord.

“Need proof for landlord.”

A work-from-home renter on the second floor of a Los Angeles complex says the ground-floor neighbour's subwoofer sends only bass into the unit, up to ten hours a day, shaking possessions. An iPhone could not capture it, so he bought a meter and logs 55-90 dB(C) against a 45-50 ambient; management issued toothless lease violations and security visits failed. He notes the noise is faint from the hallway, so he fears being thought an exaggerator.

“due to the low frequency, an iPhone does not pick up the evidence well”

A renter says a neighbor's subwoofer plays heavy-bass music roughly 7 PM to midnight and sometimes from 6:30 AM, waking them and their fiancé before early shifts; the bass vibrates through the wall but their phone cannot record it, and the leasing office now demands video evidence before acting.

“we don't hear the words of the music, just the beat”

A forum member (May 2022, post #31 in another person's thread) says that after complaining about a neighbor's very loud car audio and a home sound system powerful enough to shake picture frames, they now suspect 'infrasonic and low frequency noise harassment': constant whole-body vibration, gut spasms, worsened tinnitus and sleeplessness with no audible music, which only they can perceive. They ask how to detect and collect audio evidence.

“Sadly, I'm the only one able to perceive these feelings.”

Asker wants to record low-frequency vibration coming from a neighbor so it can be used as evidence. Answers explain sub-20 Hz vibration cannot be captured by a phone and suggest indirect methods (water tray, seismometer), noting court-usable calibration is costly.

A new tenant in an apartment complex says an unidentified neighbor plays bass-heavy music nightly until at least 3 AM; it worsens their headaches and ruins sleep and focus, and because neither they nor other neighbors can tell where it originates they feel unable to call police.

“I can't really call the police when I don't know where the noise is”

A couple feel bass vibration through the floor from a downstairs unit most afternoons and evenings; the neighbor denies playing music (says he watches TV with captions), management is reluctant to act after three complaints, the poster traced the source from the hallway, and their devices could not record the vibration. Noise drops for 2–3 weeks after each complaint, then returns.

“It sucks because it's not his volume/sound that's the issue its the vibrations”

A new tenant in a thin-walled complex traced nonstop wall-shaking bass to a neighbouring couple's sound system; the property manager checked, said they could not hear it, and only sent generic quiet-hours notices. The poster sleeps with earplugs, loses sleep when it starts late, and is considering terminating the lease.

“they go check and say they can't hear it”

A new owner in a 1930s building with shared heating describes a loud, washing-machine-motor-like hum in the bedroom, also felt as vibration, strongest at about 1.5 m height mid-room and recently shifting toward the bed. Downstairs neighbors hear nothing; the poster cut bedroom power without effect and planned to cut the whole flat and canvass neighbors about appliances or air conditioning.

“C'est comme un moteur de machine à laver”

An apartment tenant says a neighbour's car parks in a garage directly beneath their unit with bass heavy enough to bounce their dining chair; camera recordings sound muffled and the landlord wants more proof after years of letters. Answers suggested a Raspberry Shake seismograph, filming a decibel meter, and phone seismometer apps; police complaints had not helped and the tenant was looking to move.

“His car pulls into garage direct under my apt, bass pounding.”

A resident of a middle unit in a 10-storey Taiwanese apartment block describes an intermittent low-frequency sound at irregular early-morning hours (roughly midnight to 5 a.m.) with a fixed rhythm that keeps waking them; suspects a neighbour's washing machine, water softener, AC or pump and has asked the residents' group for a late-night appliance curfew. Replies include other residents who traced similar LFN to a downstairs outdoor AC unit, wind-driven structural resonance, and an AC compressor/water heater (unresolved after long arguments).

“頻率太固定了內心就會一起計算頻率”

A French resident living behind a college describes a constant low humming vibration in the house day and night, likely infrasonic, that prevents sleep and concentration and forces them to mask it with music. Cutting their own power at the meter changed nothing; the grid operator refused a test cut, police heard nothing, the town hall was indifferent, and an ENT ruled out tinnitus.

“Impossible de dormir correctement ou de se concentrer sur l'ordinateur : Obligé de mettre de la musique.”

A new occupant of a 16th-floor corner unit in a 20-plus-storey riverside tower reports a cyclic vibration-like sound (10-30 s on, 5 s off, episodes of 30-50 minutes) almost only between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m.; management checked the electrical room and the 13th-floor pump relay station and the upstairs neighbour denied hearing anything. In a follow-up two months later the poster, having ruled out elevator, AC, appliances and even opened the ceiling, found the source was two loose vertical burglar-bar rods vibrating in wind gusts and transmitting through the window frame into the wall; zip-tying them ended the noise.

An apartment dweller who describes themselves as highly sensitive to vibration feels a faint, constant, maddening vibration only at night in the bedroom and bathroom on the side of the unit next to the stairwell. They checked the hallway, stairwell and outside without finding a source; the vibration disrupts sleep and causes anxiety.

A 5th-floor resident of a 13-storey building (four years in the flat) suddenly starts hearing a compressor-like hum (嗡嗡嗡) every day from exactly 18:05 to 21:05, strongest in one bedroom; neighbours above and below hear nothing. In a follow-up three days later the poster identifies the source as an aging motor in the basement pump room driving a landscape fountain on a timer, measuring about 36 dB at 20 Hz in the flat and loudest on the rooftop, and begins negotiating with the management committee for damping pads, a smaller motor or a schedule change.

“最近家中突然出現低頻震動聲音”

A resident who joined their building's management committee recounts having tracked down at least three separate low-frequency sources in their building: elevator machinery (spectrogram showed ~38 Hz rising to ~80 Hz at start-up, fixed with anti-vibration pads and damping sheets), a pressurisation pump motor (~100 Hz for 30+ seconds at start-up, fixed by organising a group buy of quieter motors), and a common-area transformer. Recommends recording with the Spectroid app because low-frequency noise is hard to describe to technicians.

“我至少抓過三個，電梯機具震動、加壓馬達震動、公設變壓器震動。”

UK poster hears a steady ~120 Hz tone indoors from a detached neighbour's rooftop packaged heat pump about 20 ft away, noticeable since the neighbour re-roofed; measured ~58-60 dBC at 125 Hz outside a window and feels faint vibration in an interior wall. Says it affects sleep and anxiety; technicians did not know what to check.

A 10th-floor flat owner in a 12-storey building logs a motor-like low-frequency sound recurring every 7-8 minutes for about a minute, mainly noticed at night once their own AC/heater white noise was off; phone video captures only ambient sound. Suspects a booster pump in the subdivided rental unit above and is pursuing it with management and the landlord. Several repliers describe their own cases: an upstairs dehumidifier, a booster pump masked with an air purifier, and one who found an exercise bike's capacitor after unplugging appliances one by one.

“約7-8分鐘就出現一次，每次發出聲音約一分鐘”

A renter hears a constant low-frequency hum and vibration in their bedroom, worst at night, which maintenance traced to the downstairs unit (suspected ceiling fan). White noise, noise-cancelling headphones, sleeping on the couch and under-bed pads all failed; they ask what others would do.

Local news reports residents across North Vancouver, from Lower Lonsdale to Lynn Valley, complaining online about a mystery hum and vibrations, noting that tracing a low-frequency noise to its source is extremely difficult.

CBC reports on a long-running hum in an Alberta community, with a resident who says he can sense where it is strongest and investigators including an acoustic engineer analysing recordings without pinpointing a source.

A former engineer in Cambridgeshire says a night-time low-frequency hum destroyed his sleep for years, cost him three jobs, and drove him to move from a village to St Neots, where he now hears it too. He says councils will not treat it as a nuisance because it is hard to record and travels through ground and structure.

“It has destroyed my life and that of many others around the world.”

Three Dutch adults describe living with a bromtoon: a 67-year-old who moved to the German border and found the hum followed her, with night vibrations and panic; a 70-year-old with a drone like an unseen aeroplane; and a 58-year-old who feels a continuous trembling in his chest, once traced to a central-heating pump under his apartment and later to no findable source. Acoustic measurements found no source in two cases.

“Alsof er een vrachtwagen voor je deur staat te dieselen.”

A 2009 community discussion in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, in which residents report hearing a low hum that others in the same room cannot, with environmental health officers unable to find a source.

A UK homeowner describes a low-pitched hum that began after a nearby festival; his wife could hear it at night and could not sleep. Local environmental health officers would not act unless he supplied the address of the source.

A tenant in Spain who moved in two months earlier hears a buzzing that began occasionally and is now near-constant, worst at night and only in the main bedroom and kitchen, keeping her from sleeping. She suspects a wall-mounted streetlight or nearby high-voltage cables and asks whom to complain to; a reply suggests the municipal environment department measure decibels.

“cuanto más tiempo va pasando más lo oigo”

A French homeowner and their teenage daughter hear a faint constant low-frequency hum for months, worst at night with windows closed; the spouse (who has tinnitus) does not hear it. A neighbor's rooftop air conditioner was switched off without effect, and cutting their own power and checking appliances did not help.

“Toujours ce "bruit" très basse fréquence que je "ressens" surtout la nuit quand tout est calme.”

A resident on the hillside above Llandogo, Monmouthshire reported a constant two-tone low-frequency hum for six weeks causing severe headaches and sleeplessness, audible to neighbours near the house but not further downhill. Power-network noise experts, Welsh Water (which switched off nearby pumps) and council environmental health all failed to find the source; the resident offered a GBP 100 reward.

“It has continued unabated since, 24 hours a day”

Reader comments under a local blog post about the West Seattle Hum: residents say the hum has ruined their sleep for years, wakes them at night, waxes and wanes, and some use earplugs; commenters suspected a cement plant or glass recycler across the Duwamish.

“The hum has bugged us and ruined sleep for years.”

A videographer in Scotland describes a low mains-like hum (reported 40-80 Hz) heard in his bedroom around 1:30 am, also audible by his wife and a quarter mile uphill; he checked rail works and pylons and found nothing. The comment thread holds dozens of further accounts (Cornwall, Roslin, West Lothian) with nightly drone, nausea, dizziness and sleep loss, several suspecting a neighbouring property or generator.

A poster in Sweden describes a very low frequency vibration felt in the body rather than heard, at night or early morning, tied to particular houses they lived in; they suspect central-heating pumps vibrating pipes and propose it as a project for retired scientists.

“not a Hum but a low frequency that is only felt but not heard”

A homeowner describes a wave-like hum like an idling truck heard throughout the house day and night, which began after new neighbours arrived and which older family members cannot hear. After searching inside, they located a pump motor behind the neighbours' fence directly behind their bedroom, suspected a hot tub, and sought a way to get night-time relief.

A woman living near Barga, Tuscany, describes a persistent low drone like a distant helicopter heard at her gate in the early hours; her partner heard it as a fridge-like machine sound. It lasted at least half an hour, no traffic or helicopter was present, and she reports headaches and fatigue in following days.

“It was a persistent Hum, for me it sounded like a distant helicopter.”

Australian homeowner hears an exactly-100 Hz hum (measured with REW) only in a home study, not elsewhere in the house or outside, from late morning to evening, louder on 30C+ days. Disconnecting all electrical equipment, hot water and landline did not stop it; nearest transformer is eight houses away. Unresolved; suspects roof sarking vibrating at twice mains frequency.

“I can't hear it anywhere else in the house nor can I hear it outside the home.”

A mother of two in Sheerness, Kent, reported a persistent low hum since October 2015, morning to night, once strong enough that she felt her eyeball vibrate; she has not had a full night's sleep since, wears headphones and has considered moving. Her husband hears only a faint rumble; the council knew of no works or source. She was considering hiring a sound engineer.

“I'm used to noise, but this is a different type, and I do not know where it comes from.”

A 47-year-old man in a Colchester cul-de-sac reported a low persistent hum like standing beside a bass drum, felt as vibration, indoors and out, worse at night, causing poor sleep, headaches and exhaustion. His wife cannot hear it; one of his sons can. He first blamed new neighbours' appliances, which they denied; environmental health officers visited and could not identify a source.

“it is like I can feel the vibrations which the noise is making.”

US homeowner has heard a constant low-frequency hum in the house for years, assuming it was the hot tub; during a two-day hurricane power outage the hum continued, so it is not electrical. Poster has hearing loss in one ear.

“I lost power for 2 days during the hurricane. I still heard the hum”

National news piece on low-frequency hum with no legal standard; includes a Zuidhorn woman who wakes with a hum in her ears and head pain and cannot read or talk for the first hour, and a social-media post describing a pulsing low-frequency hum spreading through a whole village.

“Ik ben niet uitgerust en het eerste uur niet in staat om te lezen of te praten.”

A new tenant of a first-floor Victorian conversion flat hears a persistent low hum or buzz from the party wall that makes the whole flat feel like it is vibrating, running in roughly 30-minute bursts from about 7:30am to midnight. The upstairs neighbour hears the same buzz but downstairs neighbours do not; boilers were ruled out, and they asked whether an electrician could locate it.

“While this noise is not extremely loud, it is persistent and very annoying.”

Newcastle (NSW) columnist describes a persistent low background hum heard mainly at night that others in the household cannot hear and that a phone recording failed to capture; he wonders whether it is tinnitus or something else and notes hum-map reports in the Lake Macquarie area.

“No, theres been a definite hum, always at night, but apparently only audible to me.”

Windsor, Ontario residents describe a deep, omnidirectional low-frequency rumble, felt as much as heard, that rattles windows and ruins sleep; a hum hotline received over 10,000 calls in 2012. Ontario sensors in 2013 detected a 35 Hz rumble from the Zug Island steel complex across the Detroit River, audible 4 km away; a federally funded engineer considers blast furnaces the likely source; the operator declined comment.

“I must have gone to the window a good five or six times that night, and I definitely didn't sleep.”

Several Brabant residents' hum reports: a Den Bosch woman hearing a heavy-diesel-like hum indoors on specific October nights; a Waalre resident kept awake by a four-month nightly hum; an Eindhoven resident feeling pressure in the home and vibration in bed and bones that raised their heart rate; and a Den Bosch couple whose six-month hum and airway irritation stopped when an extraction installation was switched off.

“Gek word ik er van en brommend geluid de hele nacht.”

Reader responses to a hum story: a Helmond resident wakes every night to a 20-second low hum six to eight times an hour, suspected to be a pump; an Oirschot resident living behind a haulage yard is driven to despair by deep pulsing drones from refrigerated trucks and says the council will not enforce the noise-barrier permit; a Dommelen resident has had a hum in one ear for five years.

“Je wordt gek van de diepe pulserende bromtonen.”

Dutch LFN sufferers' foundation says people describe the sound as a humming like a festival loudspeaker's vibration or a diesel engine idling endlessly, with stress, sleeplessness and fatigue; the chairman, himself a sufferer, says a taboo still surrounds health complaints from low-frequency noise.

“Blijkbaar rust er nog steeds een taboe op het hebben van gezondheidsklachten door laagfrequent geluid.”

A Dutch homeowner in a terraced house near a ring road describes a year-long, round-the-clock diesel-engine-like hum, worst in the first-floor bedroom at night, that their partner cannot hear. They suspect springy new floors resonating with traffic; switching off the heating and underfloor pump did not help, and replies suggested a neighbor's heat pump or ventilation.

“Ik ben sinds een jaar hinder gaan ondervinden van laag frequent geluid in huis.”

A family in Lower Austria hears a deep hum in their home that they trace to neighbouring heat pumps installed nearby and running at full load in winter; the teaser says no one has been able to help them so far.

“Eine niederösterreichische Familie leidet unter den immer beliebter werdenden Wärmepumpen.”

Several Dutch residents describe a low humming or thudding tone with vibrations felt in the body or coming through the bed; one woman sleeps poorly and takes medication, another has moved six times to escape it, a Rotterdam-area man hears a constant buzz like something rushing through pipes that nobody else perceives; one suspected a new pipeline but measurements found nothing.

“Met de toon kan ik nog leven.”

Several homeowners in Holland-on-Sea, Essex reported a persistent low-frequency hum that they described as torture; a Tendring Council chairman said all nearby facilities and utilities needed to be tested.

A poster who had never heard the hum before now hears a mechanical-sounding noise in bed that seems to come from near or under a window with nothing mechanical there; it fades when the window is closed and does not carry to other rooms.

“Sounds like it's coming from right near or under one of the windows”

A homeowner in a 1980s frame house hears a low, soft hum or whirr they cannot locate, audible in the basement but not outside, and which continued through a power outage, ruling out electrical sources. They suspected plumbing or a vent; one reply said a similar hum turned out to be a large carpenter-ant nest.

“It drives me crazy when all else is silent and I hear this low frequency sound that we can not locate.”

A Turangi, NZ resident complained to Taupō District Council in July 2019 about a hum that rises then fades after 20-30 minutes, keeping her awake at night and disturbing her by day; others likened it to a helicopter or a washing machine spin cycle. Theories included a local transformer, the Tokaanu power station, a 5G tower and drones; she noted the main problem was that not everyone hears it, and escalated to regional environmental health.

A woman in Mehlingen, Germany has heard a low persistent hum, mostly at night, since late 2018, while her husband hears nothing; it robs her of restful sleep. Affected people in online forums compare it to an idling truck, diesel generator or transformer station.

“Es dröhnt wie ein Diesel im Leerlauf.”

A journalist collecting accounts from San Francisco's Sunset/Richmond districts describes residents hearing a quiet persistent hum like a low bass throb or distant idling engine, sometimes felt as vibration, heard by some household members and not others. A former resident raised it with the City and a representative came to measure but detected nothing.

“While it's not loud, it can be very annoying.”

Podcast episode with recorded Windsor, Ontario residents describing the Windsor Hum: a furnace-like whomp felt through the chest, nausea, being woken at night, and talk of abandoning properties; the hum ended when U.S. Steel idled its Zug Island blast furnaces in 2020.

“It feels like it's going through your chest.”

Residents of Holmfield, Halifax describe the 'Holmfield Hum', a continuous low-frequency hum day and night for nearly two years, causing poor sleep, headaches, frontal head pressure, painful ears and anxiety; they blame nearby industrial units. Calderdale Council found 'lots of potential sources', ruled some out and said the probe continued; a 450-signature petition demanded LFN measurements and microphone-array triangulation.

“Residents have been unable to relax in their own home for nearly a year.”

A poster first heard the hum overnight and their sister heard it too; it felt as if it were in the air, left them affected for about 12 hours afterward, and they now react to machine and engine sounds. No source identified.

“I'm getting randomly triggered by sounds of machines/engines.”

A rural Ontario resident about two hours from any city describes a pulsing rumble around 3 AM like an idling truck that lasted hours; they felt it through the walls on a windless night and found no source.

“Makes me super uneasy.”

UK poster in a small terraced house hears a generator-like low hum at night, loudest with an ear to the party wall; a visiting friend heard it too, ruling out tinnitus. They suspect neighbours but do not know them well. Many repliers describe their own hums, traced variously to a hotel extractor fan, a boiler standby mode, an aquarium, or never found.

“It surely cannot be on all the time 24 hours a day though?”

An owner-occupier who had lived in her apartment five months describes a constant low-frequency hum from the unit above, guessed to be a very loud refrigerator, audible in every room and felt in the body like club bass; it began as occasional night-time noise and became 24/7, wrecking sleep and concentration. She is afraid to confront the upstairs man and is considering a hotel.

“I can hear it in every single room and can even feel it in my body.”

A night-time hum in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, was reported by a 'considerable number' of residents as preventing sleep; the council initially said it had no complaints, then sent environmental health officers who confirmed a legitimate problem across several areas and considered specialist equipment to locate the source.

“due to the wide area where the sound has been reported it is difficult to pinpoint the exact source(s)”

Residents in the Coolnagard area of Omagh, Co. Tyrone report a persistent low buzz or hum, sometimes with a sense of vibration, mostly between 10pm and midnight; council noise officers heard it but could not locate it, and air-conditioning units and power lines are being investigated.

“a persistent buzz or hum sometimes accompanied by a sense of vibration”

A top-floor apartment tenant asks for help locating a low-frequency pulsing hum heard intensely only in one bedroom and only in certain spots, with head movements making it louder or quieter.

“a low frequency pulsing hum in my top floor apartment”

A woman in Eindhoven describes a constant low droning tone heard day and night that fades and returns; the source is unexplained. After her story ran, many other Brabant residents contacted the broadcaster with similar complaints.

“Het lijkt als of er in de verte een lage, dreunende toon is.”

UK poster hears an intermittent low rumble only inside the house, mostly at night; their son and a neighbour hear it too. Environmental health left a recorder for a week during which the family heard it nightly, yet the device registered nothing at that frequency. It stopped for a couple of years and has returned. Several repliers report their own hums.

“Local environmental health put a recording device in my home for a week and the recorder heard nothing in that frequency.”

An Australian poster has heard a nighttime hum for about ten years; it vanished during a summer trip to the Kosciuszko high country and returned in the suburbs, so they suspect an environmental or urban cause rather than something in their head.

“I don't have the hum in my head!”

A blogger in Ipswich, Massachusetts describes a low oscillating hum like a distant idling motor heard in bed at night, which stopped during COVID lockdowns and returned; household equipment ruled out. Dozens of commenters from Massachusetts towns, Oklahoma, Colorado, Australia and the UK describe similar nighttime hums, some felt as vibration, with self-reported sleep loss, headaches, ear pressure, vertigo and nausea and almost no official response.

“When it comes it is maddening.”

Asker hears a constant idling-truck hum only indoors. One answerer in rural Alabama hears it at the same time nightly, feels vibration through the floor, has switched off all appliances, and her husband cannot hear it; another repeatedly goes outside at 4am looking for a nonexistent truck.

“And I can actually feel the vibrations through the floor. I live out in the country”

Seattle resident reports 'the hum' has returned: a slow-pulsating low-frequency sound heard all day for four weeks. Replies through 2026 add a ~70 Hz hum measured with a phone app disrupting sleep, a house-vibrating machinery hum louder at night and inaudible outdoors, a 4am peak that earplugs and brown noise cannot mask, and one hum traced to rooftop ventilation fans at a community center.

“a low frequency sound that occurs in a very slow pulsating pattern”

A poster hears a low, steady mechanical sound like an idling engine or plane almost nightly between 2 and 4 AM; going outside reveals nothing, and it has followed them through moves away from airports and factories. They insist it is external, not tinnitus.

“This isn't tinnitus. It's clearly external.”

A resident south of Raleigh, NC describes a steady low-pitched drone heard indoors and outdoors mostly between 3 and 4 a.m. for weeks or months, which does not fade or move like aircraft; HVAC and appliances were ruled out and a spouse and others also hear it. Commenters suggested data centers, pipelines or a water treatment plant, and one said they had tracked a similar hum to a treatment plant by car.

A poster in Sardinia hears a low pulsing hum only when lying down; it fades on standing and is masked by headphones or air conditioning. Family members cannot hear it and the poster reports anxiety and a feeling of being watched.

“as soon as I stand up or move around”

A poster who also has tinnitus says the hum is distinct and external; they have heard it in Oakland, Hawaii and Connecticut, mostly indoors and near train tracks, and cannot find a pattern. Nobody they know hears it.

“I wish I couldn't hear it at all.”

A poster shares a recording of a pulsating hum that stops and starts; it gives them headaches late at night and they are certain it does not originate in their room or house.

“it always gives me a headache late at night”

After about five months of relative quiet, a hum-hearer says the noise suddenly became unbearably loud one night; fans on high no longer mask it and they worry about sleeping.

“it's unbearably loud”

Comments on the Hum researcher's blog: one person says they hear the Hum every waking hour wherever they are and believes it is mechanical and man-made; another writes from Ireland that the Hum is audible as they type.

“Writing this in Ireland with the Hum being heard.”

A homeowner hears a directional noise roughly weekly, mostly in winter and between Friday and Monday, that seems to bounce off houses; their home and one neighbor's are worst affected, and they have not managed to speak to those neighbors.

“Happens between Friday and Monday, every week, mainly during the winter.”

A condo resident in Côte Saint-Luc has been kept awake by a pulsating low-frequency hum starting around 10-11 p.m. and lasting until morning, strongest on her upper floor; it ran for five weeks in late 2025 and returned in March 2026. She canvassed neighbors, ruled out a neighbor's drone, and public-security officers barely heard it at ground level; suspected sources include a generator, railway, commercial HVAC or underground pipes.

“Only exhaustion permits me to finally fall asleep.”

A newcomer to Jena's southern district notices a steady hum on weekdays, especially at night, and asks whether others know the cause. A later community post mapped Brummton reports from the city's south and west.

About a week after moving into a 1970s/80s East German apartment block, the poster hears a constant low hum, mostly at night, loudest in a bedroom corner bordering a neighbor's room and the hallway. They suspect a refrigerator-like source and plan to ask the neighbor whether she hears it too.

Residents of Table View, Parklands, Blouberg and later Edgemead and Milnerton in Cape Town report a low night-time hum costing them sleep; a ward councillor set up a WhatsApp line that received 148 reports/recordings and asked for addresses to triangulate. Refinery, pump stations and a water treatment plant were ruled out; data-centre fans, transformers and ships remained theories.

“It seems to obviously carry on the wind”

Residents of Holmfield, Halifax report a hum felt across about a mile and a half that disrupts sleep and affects mental health; they formed a Facebook group and a Change.org petition with 280+ signatures after the council's investigation found many potential sources without a resolution.

Residents of Calhan, CO near a 145-turbine wind project attribute headaches, nausea and dizziness to the turbines' infrasound and shadow flicker; one woman avoids going outside or opening blinds. The county says the claims are false and cites studies; the operator must respond to complaints within 30 days.

A family in Lower West Pubnico, Nova Scotia abandoned their home 400 m from the nearest of 17 turbines, reporting lost sleep, headaches, concentration problems and a bodily sensation whenever they return, which they attribute to inaudible low-frequency vibration. A federally released engineering study found infrasound below perception thresholds; a retired audiologist who tested the home disagreed about perceptibility.

“whenever we return, we feel this sensation in our body”

A long-time West Jordan, Utah resident describes sleepless nights from the hum of a nearby data centre, and a neighbour says generators are run at unpredictable times that wake him as a light sleeper.

“They run them at random all the time, and I'm a light sleeper, so it wakes me up in the middle of the night”

Neighbors of a crypto-mining building in North Tonawanda, NY describe about four years of loud, droning, nonstop fan noise that wakes them at night; a class action alleges distress, lost comfort and increased health risk.

“It's every day. It's every night. It doesn't stop.”

Buffalo Avenue residents in Niagara Falls describe a constant hum from a bitcoin mining facility, likened to jet engines at 6am and audible up to a mile and a half away; one now sleeps with earplugs in their own bed.

“I have to sleep with earplugs in now just so I can sleep in my own bed”

A family near the Kent Breeze wind farm in Thamesville, southwestern Ontario say that since turbines started in May 2011 they feel vibration in their bodies while lying in bed, suffer vertigo, nausea and poor sleep, and sued for CAD 1.5 million and shutdown.

“When you lie in bed at night you feel a vibration on your body”

Windsor, Ontario residents reported a low-frequency pulsing noise for about a year, which they attributed to the Zug Island industrial area across the Detroit River; a 900-member Facebook group and a local politician pressed governments to act.

A homeowner describes a recurring hum at about 200 Hz, worst on still nights, that appears for days every few months. They used a phone spectrum-analyser app, found it strongest at the window, initially suspected a nuclear plant 5-6 miles away, then traced it to a rooftop HVAC unit at a small manufacturer about 0.4 miles away on the same line of sight.

“always exactly the same frequency (about 200 hz)”

A Myrtle Beach-area couple blame a Santee Cooper electrical substation for a persistent low-frequency hum and house vibrations that shook their bed at night, causing sleeplessness, head pressure that grows nearer the substation, tremors and severe mental-health deterioration; a consultant measured elevated low-frequency noise, utility found no link, neighbors reported similar problems.

“This has devastated us financially, personally — in every way.”

Residents living 1.8-2.7 km from the 140-turbine Macarthur wind farm in Victoria report headaches and nausea they attribute to infrasound, have written to the operator listing health problems and are running their own noise tests; an operator-commissioned acoustic report found no measurable change in infrasound before and after construction.

“The infrasound emitted by the turbines is severe.”

Neighbors of Falmouth, Massachusetts' town-owned Wind 1 and Wind 2 turbines reported insomnia, headaches, vertigo and tinnitus; a Superior Court judge ordered operating limits after the zoning board found the turbine a nuisance.

Residents of Zuidhorn, Kommerzijl, Niehove and Saaksum have for years heard a low hum and many suspect the NAM gas-processing site at Grijpskerk; residents kept sound logs and in some cases the hum in their homes coincided with low-frequency noise measured near the site. Municipality passed data to NAM and national government.

“Een grote groep inwoners van de gemeente Zuidhorn heeft al jaren last van een lage bromtoon.”

A retired couple near Goderich, Ontario describe tonal, thumping and whomping noise from turbines since 2015 that prevents restful sleep; provincial officials measured noise-limit violations at their home in 2015 and 2017.

“We've been having issues since they turned the turbines on.”

Home-studio user says an old machine running day and night near their home produces a loud humming rumble that enters the room and vibrates the floor, making voice recording impossible even at night. Repliers measured the rumble near 130 Hz and suggested filtering; the machine's source was never resolved.

“a lot of annoying humming noise which comes in my room and my floor also vibrates”

A Queensland ground-floor unit owner next to a franchise boxing gym describes thumping bass, banging equipment and dropped medicine balls vibrating through the unit in morning and evening blocks from 5:30 AM; sound testing brought temporary changes, the franchisee was hostile, they keep a noise diary and have contacted council, and cannot afford to move.

“The noise starts each morning at 5.30am to 10am”

A resident who has just moved into a ground-floor flat discovers the basement level below is the building's water-pump room; the pump runs for hours at a time and the low-frequency noise is seriously affecting daily life. The video is a recording made with a decibel-meter app. 70k views, 152 comments.

“经常一响就几个小时，严重影响了生活”

A top-floor resident describes a constant low-frequency rumble from a ground-floor restaurant's large rooftop cooling unit installed directly above them, which carries into every corner of the flat and is driving them to nervous exhaustion and daily irritability. The restaurant added air-cushion dampers several times and replaced the steel frame without effect; its technician said it could not be fixed, so the poster is seeking their own acoustic inspector. A neighbouring rooftop resident replies they cannot open windows by day because of a similar open-type unit.

“實在快被這個低頻噪音搞得神經衰弱”

Residents near the Windpark N33 turbines at Meeden and Veendam report low-frequency humming tones, mainly in the evening; after adjustments the hum decreased somewhat but residents say the problem is not solved, and the municipality targets reductions between 22:00 and 07:00.

“Omwonenden hebben daar last van en horen vooral in de avonduren bromtonen.”

Great Oak subdivision residents in Manassas, VA say they are subjected to a constant buzz and whir from the adjacent Amazon data center and planned a protest, describing stress and reduced quality of life.

Manassas, VA residents next to a new Amazon data center say the constant noise causes migraines and keeps babies and adults from sleeping; they took their own decibel readings showing exceedances of a 1989 county ordinance and asked supervisors to update it.

“the constant noise the buildings put out is catastrophic”

Northern Virginia residents in Prince William and Loudoun counties describe constant cooling-fan noise from data centers at an obnoxious frequency, say it regularly exceeds the 60 dB limit, and expect it to worsen in winter when trees lose leaves.

“a constant whir at a frequency that's obnoxious”

As Falmouth's turbines came down, an abutter recalled noise and a pulsing-air sensation that produced a feeling in his chest and drove him out of his garden; other neighbors reported insomnia and headaches.

“It was like a feeling in my chest, that I couldn't stand to be out there anymore.”

For a few weeks a poster has heard a sound only indoors at night from about 9–10 PM, not at work or elsewhere; they suspect a nearby natural-gas pipeline and mask it with an engine-idling recording.

“don't hear it at work, don't hear it anywhere else.”

A Loudoun County, Virginia resident who moved to a wooded lot in 2021 began hearing an eerie hum in early 2023 that grows louder at night; she first assumed constant lawn work until neighbors said it came from nearby data centers. Headline says it keeps residents up at night.

“started hearing an eerie hum that got louder at night.”

A homeowner in North West England is woken several nights a week by cyclical vibrational/tonal noise in the bedroom, attributed to a wealthy neighbour's new air-conditioning or heat-pump plant room; two seven-night acoustic surveys found cyclic events 10 dB above background at 40-160 Hz, within 5 dB of the DIN 45680 criterion. Neighbour denies responsibility.

“ruining our lives”

Long-form report on residents of rural Hood County, Texas living beside a bitcoin mine: a constant hum that grew from fan-like to jet-engine-like, walls and windows rattling, insomnia, migraines described as head-in-a-vise pressure, vertigo and vomiting episodes, tinnitus and palpitations; at least ten people went to urgent care or the ER.

“When they crank this thing, I'm wide awake.”

Residents near Granbury, Texas sued the bitcoin mine operator over noise and vibration; they say the sound comes through walls and windows at night, recordings reached about 85 dB, and one describes daytime disorientation and motion-sickness-like episodes.

“We don't sleep at night”

A rural resident uploads footage of wind turbines near their village with a title complaining that the low-frequency noise from the turbines genuinely disturbs residents. 4.7k views, 58 comments.

“农村风车发电低频噪音真扰民啊”

Buffalo, NY residents petition the city over persistent low-frequency droning hums they say carry over two miles from two named industrial facilities, causing sleep deprivation and stress; they ask for independent acoustic investigation, certified meters for police, and enforcement of the 5 dB ordinance.

“These persistent low-frequency noises have disrupted the daily lives of residents across Buffalo”

A Schiedam resident hears a droning tone around 75-80 Hz most days from about 1.5 km away, suspects ship engines in the nearby harbours, and notes it depends on wind direction and was absent during their first seven months there.

A Dutch resident is affected by a pulsing low-frequency hum from a gym's ground-floor cooling unit bolted rigidly to the building structure without vibration isolation. The municipality measured facade noise above limits, but the resident fears the gym will only treat airborne noise, not the structure-borne vibration.

West Haven, CT residents describe a persistent low-pitched hum, often overnight, that some feel more as vibration than sound; a petition with 130+ signatures cites disrupted sleep, stress and physical discomfort, and one resident's meter read 40-50 dB. The city believes the source is industrial and approved $16,000 for an acoustic firm to deploy about ten monitoring microphones.

Residents of one West Haven, Connecticut neighbourhood report a persistent hum causing disrupted sleep, stress, anxiety and physical discomfort, and a petition with 140+ signatures blames local industry. The city council approved $16,000 for an acoustic firm to monitor with ten microphones for seven days; the source was unidentified at publication.

“a quality-of-life issue, no doubt”

Long-time residents near a 300 MW AI data centre under construction in Vineland, NJ report a loud, consistent humming that varies in intensity, keeps them awake and that one resident could feel pulsating through his house. Cumberland County health inspectors took readings and were still confirming the source; the developer said it was construction and compliant with the city ordinance.

“feel it pulsating through the house”

Residents of Commack/Hauppauge, Long Island describe a new tonal ringing plus a constant 24-hour rumble they attribute to large ventilation/air-purification systems at pharmaceutical plants in the Hauppauge Industrial District, causing sleep trouble, stress and difficulty working from home; they ask officials to investigate.

“constant rumble that is present 24 hours a day”

Sterling (Loudoun County) residents describe constant noise from a data center running gas turbines day and night, likened to a buzzing in the head; one says it is audible indoors and sometimes wakes him. Residents also monitor air quality.

“There was this constant, just like a buzzing in your head.”

A man in the Maaspoort district of Den Bosch has heard a constant low-frequency drone like an idling truck since 2020, sleeps badly, cannot concentrate, sometimes sleeps in a hotel and is house-hunting. He believes a large industrial installation is responsible; municipal and environmental-agency investigations in 2022-23 found nothing.

“Het enige wat je kunt doen, is bijvoorbeeld de radio aanzetten als afleiding.”

Three Sturtevant, WI residents near Microsoft's Fairwater data centre filed a class action alleging a consistent, pervasive noise from chillers, cooling towers, condenser fans and generators; the complaint argues much of the 'low hum' is low-frequency infrasound not captured by dBA readings. Microsoft had acknowledged a 'tonal humming sound' noticed by residents to the north and said it added mitigations; the village said no formal complaints since.

“have noticed a tonal humming sound”

A couple in Dowagiac, Michigan say a 30 MW data center across from their home produces a constant mechanical hum that makes it hard to sleep and relax; the husband's logged readings rose from ~52 dB in 2022 to over 60 dB with spikes. Two neighbors are suing the operator over inadequate sound barriers; an audiologist told local media the levels likely won't damage hearing but add stress.

“It sounds like a distant but encroaching NASCAR race that never arrives.”

A poster describes a renter neighbour who stays up all night with a subwoofer at maximum volume; police visits did not stop it and they ask for help.

“She doesn't work, stays up all night and cranks the subwoofer to MAX.”

A Japanese homeowner says a model home built a month earlier on the vacant lot next door has an EcoCute heat-pump water heater close to their house, and its low vibration has left them unable to sleep; they ask whether at least the outdoor unit can be stopped.

“1ヶ月前に西隣の空き地にモデルハウスができました。”

Neighbours on a Barking housing estate complained that a tenant's music bassline shook walls and windows across the estate; he ignored two council notices, played music with windows and balcony door open and blamed the vibrations on the wind. The court rejected this, fined him £500 plus £1,204.74 costs and his stereo was seized.

“the bassline shook walls and windows across the housing estate”

Neighbours in Hornchurch suffered stress and exhaustion from house/dance music played overnight, sometimes until 7am; Havering Council officers could hear lyrics through the wall and feel the bass vibrations by touching walls in neighbouring homes. After an abatement notice and monitoring equipment, DJ decks were seized; the man pleaded guilty to two breaches, fined £500 plus £500 costs, equipment returned.

“could the bass vibrations by touching the walls inside neighbouring properties”

A Huddersfield man's bass was making neighbours' floors vibrate; he was fined £100 and his stereo and speakers were seized by the council (TV and DVD player returned), with the hire-purchase stereo liable to be crushed.

A Bradford man appeared in court for the second time in a year for repeatedly playing bass-heavy music throughout the day in breach of a council notice; he was ordered to pay over £3,500 and warned of further daily fines if it continued.

A Japanese resident asks lawyers about ill health attributed to vibration and low-frequency sound from a neighbor's water heater / outdoor unit; they want the neighbor to repair or move it but say the neighbor will not engage in discussion.

“相手に修理を依頼したいが、相手とは話しあいにならない。”

An Austrian homeowner says the neighbours' outdoor heat pump, running since September 2007, produces intermittent humming and droning on their terrace and in the garden (38-40 dB at night) and enters the living room; the neighbours refused to relocate it unless the poster pays, and the poster asked about filing with the building authority. A 2009 follow-up reported no change.

“unangenehm”

A downstairs/adjacent tenant in a Westfield, MA apartment complex said a neighbour's music was loud enough to shake his walls all day and banged on the shared wall in protest; when she called police on him, the responding officer heard the music from his cruiser and charged her with disturbing the peace.

“loud enough to shake his walls all day”

An Oregon homeowner sued the operator of a 50-turbine wind farm near Ione for $5 million, claiming low-frequency noise caused dizziness, sleep problems, fatigue and headaches; he described an audible noise that wakes you plus infrasound he feels but cannot hear, and moved away a year before filing in August 2013.

“It's hard to explain it to people unless you experience it.”

Washington State homeowner has had county police visit both homes, negotiated limited hours with the neighbor and even bought the neighbor headphones, but still has bass/subwoofer sound in the house. Lawyers advise repeated police calls, code enforcement, cease-and-desist, then nuisance suit, noting no duty exists if no ordinance is broken.

“I do not want the base sound in my home any more! What can I do?”

A 2014 New York court decision in a cooperative-apartment dispute in which an acoustic consultant concluded that low-frequency noise in the complainant's apartment came from HVAC units in neighbouring apartments.

A German condo owner whose living room sits above the complex's heating room (about 50 units) hears a constant droning hum throughout the heating season. A commissioned measurement gave 23 dB(A), just under the 25 dB(A) limit, so the property manager refuses to act; they ask how to compel action on grounds of unreasonable nuisance.

“Leider ist während der Heizzeit (Oktober-Mai) immer ein störendes Brummen/Dröhnen rund um die Uhr zu hören.”

Neighbours in central York complained of music so loud it made a neighbour's floor vibrate; after the man breached an abatement notice, City of York Council officers with police seized his CD player during Noise Action Week 2016 and he was convicted in his absence, fined £660 plus £760 costs and surcharge (£1,486 total).

“so loud it caused a neighbour's floor to vibrate”

Thread on a neighbor's heat pump: the opener says police and mayor did nothing and admits trying to damage the unit through the hedge. A later poster describes sleep disruption requiring sleeping pills (with medical certificates) and an unusable home office; they assembled a bailiff's report, witness statements and installer guidance, filed an urgent civil claim for abnormal neighborhood nuisance, and the court ordered the neighbors to stop using the heat pump and pay damages.

“le cauchemar est terminé pour nous!”

Two Ota-ku (Tokyo) residents sought about 3.6 million yen claiming roughly eight years of health damage, including raised blood pressure and sleep problems, from noise and low-frequency sound from a neighbor's EcoCute heat-pump water heater plus parking and garbage noise. The commission proposed a settlement; the applicants did not respond and the case was deemed withdrawn.

A New Jersey homeowner says the next-door neighbour plays bass-heavy music from his house, yard and parked car so that only the thumping bass is felt inside; about twenty police calls produced temporary turn-downs because the neighbour switches off when he sees officers coming, and an officer advised simply calling repeatedly until they catch him.

“I can hear/feel only the thumping bass without hearing much of the music”

A Toronto condo owner describes unpredictable bass booms from a neighbor's home theater that disrupt sleep and TV. A polite note, complaints to management and security, and an agreed-but-unscheduled mediation left the problem unresolved after a month.

An elderly French couple in their house of 47 years describe continuous dull vibrations and pulsing noise day and night since autumn, with painful infrasound peaks, strongest on the ground floor. They believe a neighbor's appliance transmits through the foundations; three neighbors refuse to say what they installed, a police log entry was filed, and the town hall declined to act because agents heard nothing. They report insomnia despite medication, exhaustion and eardrum pain, and ask how to force a power-cut test at the neighbors'.

“nous pensons que le bruit se propage par les fondations”

An Ohio parent says a neighbour's sound system runs nightly until about 3 am with bass that shakes mounted TVs and has knocked pictures off walls; police attend, knock or do not, leave, and the volume rises the moment they go. Dispatchers acknowledge many complaints against the address; the toddler's bedroom faces the neighbour.

“the bass alone shakes the TVs mounted in my house”

A lawyer summarizes an Incheon District Court ruling: a downstairs couple who filed dozens of complaints allegedly installed a ceiling device (reported as a woofer) producing noise and vibration upstairs; police and neighbors corroborated the sound. The upstairs couple were diagnosed with depression and moved out, and were awarded 10 million won for distress plus 19.6 million won in replacement rent.

“주거의 안정이라는 중요한 부분을 침해당하였기에”

Orlando renter who works from home says a neighbor's subwoofer resonates through the wall; they have complained to the complex over eight times, called police, filmed the noise, and the neighbors have visited to hear it, yet nothing changes. Asker now wants to break the lease without penalty.

“We have videos of their music coming through the walls. The apartment complex does not take any action, and it is driving us insane.”

Retired couple in a New Jersey condo say a new downstairs neighbor plays bass from 1 AM that vibrates floors, walls and ceiling; a sound expert told them LFN insulation is very expensive, and the town ordinance measures decibels rather than vibration. Lawyer advises using condo bylaws and the board, then a private nuisance suit.

“The PROBLEM is that town ordinances are based on decibels rather than vibration intensity. The sound I hear does not qualify based on decibels.”

Townhouse owner in Maryland says next-door bass runs past 1 AM; police will not act because they cannot hear it 50 feet away, the HOA defers to police, and the neighbors agree to turn it down but do not. Asker can feel the vibrations.

“It is so strong that I can feel the vibrations and my wife and I can't find any peace in our home”

A top-floor tenant in a new, quiet building abroad (does not speak the local language well) says a new downstairs neighbour runs a subwoofer at low volume from about 4 pm to 4 am, producing a constant humming bass with occasional explosions like a cinema next door; it is not loud enough to call police. Other residents on the building's Facebook group confirmed hearing it; a note on her car had no effect, and a retaliatory techno blast achieved nothing.

“a constant humming bass with large explosions and drops here and there”

A homeowner in Clearwater, Florida, says neighbours constantly run subwoofers strong enough to vibrate the walls of a house a street away; police have been called several times with no result, and the poster asks what the HOA can legally do.

“the soundwaves are large enough to vibrate my walls a street over”

Social-housing tenant reported from April 2020 being woken two or three nights a week by an 'up and down' low-frequency vibration noise lasting all night and echoing through her home, causing tiredness and anxiety; neither she nor the landlord could identify which neighbouring property it came from. Landlord later suspected air in plumbing. Ombudsman found no maladministration.

A duplex owner in Holmes Beach, FL called police at 6am about a stereo in the adjoining unit (owned by a city commissioner) whose bass vibrated the walls of his home for nearly two hours and kept him and his wife from sleeping. Police measured 45 dB in the shared stairwell, found the volume alone did not breach the ordinance but the wall vibration plus duration did, and posted a warning.

“the bass was vibrating the walls of his unit”

A condo owner whose only shared wall is the bedroom wall says next-door neighbours have played thumping bass nightly for ten months, lately all night, ruining sleep. They denied being home when reported, the HOA process requires 30 days and a hearing, phone recordings barely register, and the owner suspects a retaliatory window-shade violation complaint.

“When I try to record the music on my phone, the sound is barely audible.”

A Victorian resident on a public-housing waiting list says a neighbour runs karaoke through DJ speakers with subwoofers past 1:30 am on weekends; he has called the police station four times in six months without visible result, the neighbour dismissed him with 'it's the weekend', and he expects the council will only ask for a diary.

“i had to bang so loud, thats how loud the subs were”

A Florida homeowner says a neighbour about 300 feet away sits in his car playing low-frequency bass that thumps through walls, floors and windows, and switches it off whenever the Sheriff arrives. They wanted a court-usable recording because they understood Florida courts reject decibel meter readings; replies said only a calibrated logging SPL meter or a certified acoustic firm's report would be admissible.

“he keeps an eye out for the Sheriff, Sheriff comes he turns it off”

A duplex resident says the neighbor's TV, movies and music thump bass through the shared wall all day; after talking to the neighbor several times, contacting the landlord, attempting soundproofing and once retaliating with music, they plan an attorney's cease-and-desist and possibly court, and ask for unconventional tactics.

“It's actually the bass that's the big issue”

Flat resident reported from August 2021 a low-pitched humming vibration travelling through the walls, suspected to come from the lift, boiler room or electrical storage area; a contractor and surveyor found nothing. Ombudsman found maladministration because the landlord did not show the inspector was qualified to assess vibration, awarded £250 and ordered a technical expert inspection.

A disabled home-worker renting a middle-floor flat in Islington says the owner-occupier above plays drum and bass all day; after a letter he lowered the volume but the bass still booms through, and his bare wooden floors transmit every footstep. The landlord, the neighbour's brother, refused an early lease break; commenters say the council must be tried before any court action.

“I can hear the bass going boom boom boom”

A condo owner in Tempe, Arizona measured an 18-21 Hz throbbing pressure at 74-78 dB SPL indoors, traced by spectrogram to the adjacent unit's attic air handler. Reports ear pain after 20-30 minutes, doubled sleep onset and halved REM/deep sleep, and moved the bed to the living room. The neighbor refused repairs and a $300 isolation offer; an HOA technician found loose fan screws but called it normal; code enforcement closed the ticket; a police visit turned into questions about the poster's mental health until the officer felt it. Planned to see an audiologist.

“It is bad enough that sitting in my office for 20-30 minutes results in ear pain.”

A family in an Alberta townhouse condo says a tenant through the shared wall produces bass felt in the bones that headphones and moving to the basement cannot escape. Police can only act if someone opens the door, bylaw officers said their meter cannot measure bass and referred them to the condo board, and the board has been slow; a bylaw officer hinted at a small-claims mental-health argument.

“because the majority of the problem is the bass (which cannot be measured by whatever device they use), they say they can't help”

A couple in a top-floor apartment say new downstairs neighbours produce floor-rattling bass from a stereo and TV day and night; the neighbour said they would be playing loud music a lot and denied playing when confronted. Daily complaints to the property manager changed nothing, the cats were frightened, and the couple gave 60 days' notice to break the lease.

“We had no choice but to break the lease with a 60 day notice this weekend”

A graduate student living with parents in suburban St. Louis County, Missouri, says a neighbouring couple's sound system runs until about 1 am and the thumping bass enters the bedroom through foam earplugs even on quieter nights; she asks whether the county's technical ordinance on frequencies, vibration and decibels would cover bass rather than volume.

“it even goes through foam earplugs because it's so hard to block those low frequencies”

A homeowner says a neighbor's subwoofer-level party bass has shaken their house for years, day and night; the kitchen vibrated hard enough that an appliance fell off the fridge and broke. Repeated police calls produced no visits or fines, and they are considering going to the station in person.

A couple in a Langley, B.C. strata complex logged 20 incidents of bass from a neighbour's Sonos system between Feb and June 2022, peaking at 63 dB and running for hours on weekend evenings; they said the bass permeated the house and could be felt. After strata fines failed, the Civil Resolution Tribunal awarded them $3,500 for nuisance; they moved out in November 2022.

“It was more the bass level permeating the house and we could feel it. That's what shook us.”

A household reports a month of nightly bass vibrating their apartment until about 11 PM from a neighboring unit; they have knocked on the door, filed complaints, emailed the manager and called security nightly, and management has issued a lease violation, but the neighbors have not changed behavior.

“A month straight now, every single night.”

A flat dweller in the UK says the neighbour opposite plays bass so loud it shakes the walls, sometimes just a continuous bass note as if testing how loud the speaker can go, and asks what legal options exist.

“Sometimes it's not even music, it's just a continuous bass note”

A Kamakura resident filed a cause-determination claim attributing discomfort, pressure sensations and sleep disorder to low-frequency sound from a neighbor's air-conditioner outdoor unit. The commission conducted on-site sound examination and an expert causation study; search summaries indicate the claim was dismissed.

“令和6年2月13日”

Illinois homeowner says a neighbor's amplified subwoofer is inaudible outside but its vibration travels over 120 feet and makes the house re-radiate the sound; attempts to talk led to an order of protection against the asker. They have logs and video of water moving in a bowl. Lawyer says vibration can be a civil nuisance.

“the vibrations travel over 120 feet, causing my house to recreate the sound internally, much like the effect of two cans tied to a string”

An Ottawa homeowner says life changed the day the neighbor replaced an air conditioner with a heat pump: a constant low-grade mechanical hum plus buzzing and rattling that travels through walls, with shaking of walls and floors, nightly waking and distress. The City measured 36-39 dB indoors, under the 50 dB bylaw limit, so nothing could be enforced; a rubber mat under the unit cut vibration but not noise. The author launched a poster campaign for vendor noise disclosure.

“has turned into a buzzing, humming, rattling zone”

A tenant describes neighbors who play loud music through subwoofers, slam doors and fight, and says they intend to report them to the landlord again just before moving out so the neighbors are evicted. They ask whether this makes them the asshole.

A Belgian couple is bothered by the constant cycling low hum of a neighbor's garden ice-bath chiller. The unit now runs fewer weekday hours but still runs all weekend; they ask about mediation and their legal position.

A UK resident is kept awake by a neighboring tenant's floor-standing subwoofer and says repeated requests were brushed off. The landlord and letting agent did little, so they reported it to the council, complicated by the tenant's frequent absences.

A San Francisco renter says a downstairs neighbor has blasted bass almost nightly until 3-4am for months, and reports developing tinnitus and vertigo. Despite 15+ noise complaints and reports to the landlord nothing changed; they ask which agencies can help and whether their audio recordings are useful evidence.

A tenant in Germany describes a pulsing low-frequency hum and vibration through the ceiling since June, blamed on an upstairs portable air conditioner sitting on a bare floor, causing headaches and sleep loss. They cite decibel readings, tried earplugs, an anti-vibration mat and a breaker test with neighbors, and ask about rent reduction and early lease termination because the landlord has not heard it at its worst.

An apartment tenant says a neighbor's late-night heavy-bass music makes the shared wall vibrate like a speaker and fill the room; earplugs help but not enough to sleep. Asked about sound-deadening board or fabric given lease limits; replies suggested police, landlord, decoupled wall, cork, masking noise and inviting the neighbor to hear it.

“It is still too loud to sleep through, especially the bass.”

A tenant hears a downstairs neighbour's TV several hours a day as a low-frequency rumble through a wooden floor; headphones do not block it and it has lasted about three years. Asking the neighbour failed and the landlord only acts on blasting noise; they asked for a sub-$1,000 floor insulation fix, and replies offered rugs, books, white noise, or moving.

“it isnt very loud, but it is very noticeable and annoying.”

A resident of a property-owners association reports music from roughly 750 feet away on Saturday nights until ~3 a.m. that arrives in their bedroom as booming bass like a car stereo outside, leaving them exhausted; POA security failed to stop it and they asked about foam over a large window. Replies said bass that resonates belongings cannot be blocked.

“I need to do something, I'm completely exhausted, but I can't sleep.”

A poster hears a neighbour's bass thump day and night and masks it with pink noise, asking whether to keep raising the masking level as the neighbour raises the bass. Replies covered mass/vibration blocking, landlord escalation and a phase-cancellation idea; a later reply said pink noise barely masks low frequencies.

An apartment resident tried masking a next-door neighbor's day-and-night bass thump with pink noise and found they had to keep raising the volume as the neighbor did. Replies covered wall mass, phase-inverted cancellation, talking to the landlord, and a later warning that masking noise above ~80 dB risks hearing damage and that pink noise barely masks low frequencies.

A poster says a neighbour has played low-level bass around the clock for nearly three months, which they call harassment, and that they are one of the few people who can hear it. They asked how to block or deflect it; replies said only soundproofing at the source or a room-within-a-room would work.

“I have a neighbour who is harassing me with low level bass.”

Asker says an upstairs neighbor runs a machine that sends vibration into their apartment and keeps them awake, and the neighbor will not cooperate. Answers range from confronting the neighbor, to withholding rent for an unlivable unit, to decoupling the bed with dense foam and anti-vibration pads.

A parent in an upstairs unit asked how to cope with a low hum from the downstairs neighbor's constantly running ceiling fan, which is just audible enough to make sleep difficult; white noise machines also bother them. Replies suggested cork underlay and thick carpet, earplugs, steady-rhythm sound machines, and waiting for habituation.

A second-floor loft resident says the couple next door play music for hours daily and the bass booms through the shared living-room wall into the corner where their couch sits; a polite in-person request was received coldly. They consider hanging art or moving the couch to dampen it.

“mainly their bass just booms in the corner that my couch sits next to”

A tenant who moved into a thin-walled apartment reports nonstop bass that vibrates the walls, apparently from a next-door couple's soundbar or sound system, often restarting late at night; they sleep in earplugs, left an anonymous note, and are considering breaking the lease after the property manager said little could be done.

“it starts up again at late hours”

A resident of an older concrete high-rise says the only neighbor noise that penetrates is a neighbor's subwoofer bass; vibration can be felt with a hand on the wall. The neighbor lowered it after a request but it crept back; open window, white noise, TV, headphones and sound dampeners have not helped.

“ive contacted her about this before and i know for a fact she has a subwoofer”

Los Angeles renter is bothered at night by a bass player in a neighbor's wooden shack about 100 feet away; phone spectrum app shows chords at 65-130 Hz. Repeated requests to lower volume or add bass traps were ignored; poster proposes mass-loaded vinyl panels in the gap behind the shack. Repliers explain low frequencies diffract around barriers.

“Multiple requests to the neighbor to lower the volume or install bass traps have been ignored.”

A Dutch couple is disturbed in their bedroom by low-frequency murmuring from the downstairs neighbors' living room coming through an old wooden floor. They ask about floor insulation options on their side that would reduce low-frequency airborne sound beyond the existing felt underlay.

A tenant feels and hears an upstairs neighbor's bass more than the music itself through thin walls; the neighbor turned it down when asked and management says it has spoken to him but will do no more. The poster asks whether covering the ceiling of a 15 x 12 room in egg-crate foam would help.

“I can feel and hear the bass more than I can actually hear his music.”

A 12th-floor resident replying to the thread above describes their own 59 Hz low-frequency noise that appeared two to three months earlier at fixed daily slots (09-11, 15-17, 19-21), traced to the courtyard pond's waterfall circulation pump. Switching off the evening cycle as a test stopped the noise; the schedule was then cut to one hour each in the morning and afternoon.

“解決方法是取消晚上時段，上午和下午改1個小時，生活品質直接upup”

A townhome owner feels subwoofer vibrations through the shared wall that disturb TV watching and cause anxiety. A general HOA notice changed nothing; they weigh a second HOA complaint, buying the neighbor isolation pads, or tolerating it with earplugs.

A homeowner says a neighbor's heat pump about 4 m from the boundary produces a low-frequency hum audible inside the house, about 45 dB at the bedroom window by phone measurement, with no improvement after the installer adjusted it. The neighbor replaced a hedge with a 2 m concrete fence; the poster plans a concrete wall on their side and asks whether it will help, with replies doubting it.

“Der Plan wäre jetzt, dass ich eine Betonwand statt den Thujen aufstellen lasse.”

A tenant kept awake by a downstairs neighbour's late-night TV after repeated requests, notes and landlord calls describes aiming a large subwoofer at the floor for ten minutes as retaliation and asks whether a hearing-impaired person can still feel bass. They had moved three times over noisy neighbours; the retaliation reportedly worked briefly.

A first-floor flat owner with a subwoofer home theatre learned from the downstairs neighbour that the whole system, including centre-channel dialogue, carries through the floor at normal listening levels. The owner exchanged numbers, cut evening volume and tested levels in the neighbour's flat after each equipment change.

A soundbar owner says the downstairs neighbour, believed to be deaf, never complained until a wireless subwoofer was added, and that the problem is vibration through the building rather than volume. Replies suggested lowering bass, suspending the sub, thick foam pads or an isolation platform.

“I think it's more the vibration than the volume.”

A West Village, New York tenant in an old brownstone describes bass-heavy thumping in the evening and a buzzing mechanical hum at 7:43 a.m. that jolted them awake; the upstairs and downstairs neighbors each denied being the source and the landlord guessed a treadmill. The writer resorted to earplugs and notes.

UK poster in a semi-rural area has endured daily bass thud from next door's garden speakers for about 18 months, audible with windows closed; polite requests work for a day. They have retaliated once with loud music, moved to the front garden, and the husband is considering moving house.

“all we can hear is the thud, thud, thud of the base from our neighbours outdoor speakers in their garden”

A tenant says the downstairs neighbor has a heavy bass speaker and they cannot tell whether it is music or beat-making; vibrations are tolerable by day but at 12:20 AM on a work night they ask whether to stomp on the floor to get it to stop.

“Should I start stomping on the floor to get him or her to stop?”

A UK flat resident says the upstairs neighbor runs a washing machine for many hours every day, apparently for a home laundry business; the noise carries through the whole flat and a kitchen light fitting fell from the ceiling. Three conversations changed nothing; they ask about escalation and proof.

“Upstairs neighbour running noisy laundry business from home all day every day.”

A basement-suite tenant in Canada describes an upstairs machine run up to twice a day between 5 am and 10:30 pm producing a deep vibration felt in the head so strongly they must move to another part of the house; a phone video captured no sound. The poster speculates about hide-processing or rock-tumbling equipment.

“my phone did not pick up any sound as it is literally a deep loud vibration”

A tenant says a new downstairs neighbor randomly blasts subwoofers for hours, shaking the apartment and upsetting their dogs, and property management has not acted. They admit considering using their own subwoofers for revenge and ask for alternatives.

A discussion on low bass sounds and health in which a member with tinnitus and noxacusis (pain hyperacusis) says humming noises make their face painful and numb and that they recently abandoned a newly bought condo because of humming from the neighbor's air conditioner. Replies recommend masking, ear protection, and audiologist-led sound-tolerance retraining, with a caution against over-using earplugs.

In a discussion about exposure to continuous thumping bass, a member describes a seasonal neighbor whose stereo bass about 100 feet away vibrated their bedroom window, and says a tinnitus-masking phone app finally kept it from bothering them; another describes the thump as something you feel rather than hear.

A German tenant describes a deep, resonant hum coming through the wall at night from a neighbor's wall-mounted boiler, sometimes mixed with a second higher tone, louder on a night the neighbor turned the boiler up.

A Dutch forum poster describes a heat pump compressor producing mainly low-frequency noise that rumbles through their bedroom, and says earplugs do not block it.

A resident reports night-time home vibrations like a large truck idling in the driveway, plus body pressure, buzzing, muscle twitches, rapid heart rate, nausea, headaches and inner-ear tingling, worse with ears covered; shutting off household power changed nothing. They asked how to detect infrasound and whom to complain to; replies suggested consumer infrasound monitors, state environmental health, and vestibular sensitivity.

A homeowner in a residential neighborhood felt the house vibrate at night 'like a huge semi truck' in the driveway and attributed it to infrasound; cutting household power did not stop it. Reported muscle twitching, rapid heart rate, nausea, headaches, inner-ear tingling and sleep loss, and worried about being seen as a 'nutcase'. No source found; thread closed.

“like a huge semi truck is sitting in my driveway”

A 51-year-old Tokyo office worker says low-frequency sound from a neighbor's Ene-Farm gas cogeneration unit gives him headaches, tinnitus and nausea and makes him dread going home; he sued the neighbor and manufacturers. A victims' website collects anonymous reports of insomnia, 7 kg weight loss, dizziness, chest tightness and palpitations. Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency opened an investigation after 32 health consultations.

“頭が痛いし、耳鳴りになってしまうし”

A resident of a new senior-housing building with gypsum floors and no firewalls feels low-frequency vibration from a hard-of-hearing downstairs tenant's subwoofer; the tenant refused management's request to turn it down and management often cannot detect it. The poster cannot sleep in headphones and was considering thicker carpet padding.

“Management cannot detect the issue on a regular basis.”

Two Bay Area accounts: a household hears a low hum from the downstairs neighbour's ceiling fan that is silent in her own unit but just audible enough upstairs to disrupt sleep (2018); another hears a neighbour's hot tub pump motor running at 11 pm a few feet from their bedroom through double-pane windows (2013).

“a low hum that's just audible enough to be annoying and make us have trouble sleeping”

A German apartment resident reports a low hum and intense tingling that keep them awake and jolt them awake around 4 a.m., with rising blood pressure; the water surface in a container visibly trembles. They suspect the building's heating pipes or pump: after the pump was replaced and a caretaker bled radiators below, the hum eased and they slept through for the first time in two years, but it returned intermittently.

“ich schlafe hier immer noch sehr schlecht, werde regelmäßig um 4:00 wachgerüttelt.”

An apartment resident in France is woken for months by a low engine-like hum felt in the walls, bed and ears, typically 5-6 a.m. on weekdays, plus bass thumping and wall vibration from a downstairs neighbor's music. They first feared tinnitus, then linked the hum to an idling waste truck and distant gardening machinery amplified by the building's poor soundproofing; they report chronic sleep loss, migraines and irritability and saw a doctor.

“je n'ai plus de doute sur leur origine.”

A renter whose upstairs neighbor games late at night says only the low-frequency bass of the sound system reaches them, like a vacuum or a plane taking off for hours; even quiet continuous bass keeps them awake, they feel it as shaking in the skull, and earplugs do not block it. Same problem in previous apartments; asks if one can train to be less sensitive.

“When I'm laying in bed, almost asleep, and I suddenly feel a bass sound, I'll be fully awake again.”

A poster whose neighbour's sound system thumped through a shared wall says the HOA complaint got the bass reduced, but they still have daytime headaches and ear pressure that vanish overnight when the system is off, and asked how to document and prove causation. Replies suggested lingering stress, checking speaker mounting/decoupling, and trying noise-cancelling headphones.

A musician in a first-floor suburban apartment says the next-door neighbor's car subwoofer pounds low-frequency bass through the walls at random hours; they describe rage, quasi-panic attacks and inability to function, which in turn triggers their partner's anxiety. They have not yet confronted the neighbor.

“I can barely function when it happens.”

A studio tenant says the next-door unit's subwoofer sits against the shared wall and the bass vibration, not audible music, runs through the whole apartment with no room to escape. Knocking helped for a few weeks, a note was ignored, and after calling management the poster fears retaliation from volatile neighbours.

“it's the vibration of the bass that's driving me insane”

A French homeowner whose headboard touches the party wall with a neighbor's heat-pump-equipped house reports a dull night-time noise that recently intensified into a bass drone resonating in the head at bed height, easing further from the wall; four nights of poor sleep. They suspect debris in the fan and ask how to isolate the pipes in the wall.

“cela fait 4 nuits que c'est vraiment difficile de dormir”

Two weeks after moving into a 3rd-floor flat in a seven-year-old building, a couple begin hearing a rhythmic low-frequency vibration at 3-4 a.m. (once at 7 a.m.) lasting about an hour, too faint to record, which both hear and which stops them sleeping; they suspect upstairs but cannot confirm. Repliers suggest pump motors, water hammer, elevator rooms and transformers; one commenter says they lived with LFN for over ten years until white noise at night solved it, another's nightly hum stopped after the committee repaired a faulty basement component.

“很惱人，根本睡不著”

UK poster has had a humming noise and vibration felt through the bed for about a year, worst at night; switching off their own TV reduced the sound but not the vibration. Shift-working neighbours leave TVs, soundbar and heating on overnight but say everything is off; railway, factories and a pylon are also suspected. Poster says it is harming their mental health.

“it's really affecting our mental health.”

A tinnitus sufferer developed an intermittent low rumble/hum 'like a car engine' in one ear and linked flare-ups to the upstairs neighbor's children jumping and vibrating the floors and to TV; it was loud at night even over a noise machine and an MRI was pending. A replier with hyperacusis described a neighbor's subwoofer and heavy farm vehicles shaking the building re-triggering their low-frequency noise, which had brought them to tears.

“It comes and goes at all different times of the day and night.”

US poster suffered 25 months of a neighbor's constant bass thump (music inaudible, only the thump), moved into an RV park to sleep, then found a new 'thumper' at the next rental. Only one visitor could hear it; ENT says their hearing is unusually good; no help from police. Replies include a winter neighbor's stereo vibrating a bedroom window 100 feet away and rooftop grocery-store generators audible a block away.

“I hear it and feel it. There are times when the couch vibrates.”

A tech worker who had just escaped one noisy apartment reports the downstairs neighbor's heavy bass makes the walls vibrate constantly; it frightens them and raises their heart rate even though they can sleep. The neighbor claimed noise is permitted 9am-10pm; management was unhelpful; the police non-emergency line said daytime noise carrying ~50 feet is actionable.

“Yes we can sleep, but the thing is this just scares us and increases our heart beat.”

A thread asking why bass through walls is so hated: commenters said the rage comes from knowing a person is making the noise, several said their bass sensitivity began only after a bad neighbor experience, and one realized irritation at bass and stomping was itself a form of misophonia.

A mother in a UK terraced house reported a now-constant building vibration that ripples water in a glass; she and her son get pain at the top of the head and pressure that eases in the car, and she fears long-term harm. She suspects a neighbour's device (friends guessed soundbar/subwoofer); one neighbour refuses to talk. Environmental Health said they would visit but she must catch it in progress. A replier described years of head-felt bass and nausea from a neighbour's soundbar, resolved by asking the neighbour to shut that room's door.

“No one listens.”

A renter one week into a new apartment says the upstairs neighbours' floor-standing subwoofer sends bass waves down heavy enough to make glasses and plates vibrate and clink; knocking got no answer, the landlord phoned them and they promised to stop, but the bass returned louder at 11 pm on a Sunday.

“the glass and plates etc is vibrating and clincing”

A second-floor tenant of eight years says downstairs neighbours' bass vibrates the floors and walls and, because of a heart condition causing arrhythmia, makes her heart race or skip so that she must leave the apartment; another neighbour has called police after hours. She is nervous about leaving a note because the neighbours are four often-intoxicated men.

“the bass is constantly causing my heart to race or skip beats”

A 38-year-old in the Netherlands developed a throbbing low-frequency hum in one ear that sounds exactly like a neighbor playing bassy music or a car idling, building daily from mid-afternoon to evening, with a sense that the room is vibrating, ear fullness and headache. GP found only earwax; ENT pending. Repliers said they too had initially believed similar sounds were real external bass or that the hum was worse at home.

“it sounds like the neighbor next door is playing bassy music or a car idling.”

A tenant in an older building with thin floors says the upstairs neighbor's bass still comes through at reduced volume after police visits, a management letter and confrontations; they find it stressful, sleep poorly, and ask how to cope without earplugs, retaliation or moving.

An Austrian homeowner reports a deep exhaust-fan-like drone and vibration in the house for two weeks, coinciding with a neighbor's new air-source heat pump about 6 m away; no one else seems to hear it. They sleep only 2-3 hours even with sleeping pills, feel nauseous and cannot eat at home, and have been sleeping at their office. A neighbor supposedly switched the unit off but the poster doubts it.

“Ich kann nicht mehr schlafen, mit Schlaftabletten höchstens 2 bis 3 Stunden dann werde ich durch das Brummer geweckt.”

A top-floor tenant in a 1928 San Francisco building says that after complaints stopped a downstairs neighbor's house music, ultra-low-frequency tones started coming up through the floor, causing nausea, headaches and perceptible floor vibration. They documented everything, use headphones and white noise, and were awaiting SF Rent Board mediation.

A first-person essay by a noise-sensitive writer whose hearing picks up the bass of a neighbour's rhythmic music, which, per the title, drove them to seek hypnotherapy. The body is paywalled; the visible preview lists other trigger sounds (chewing, snoring, ticking clocks) consistent with misophonia.

An owner-occupier of a studio in a building where the unit above is split into four rentals reports a low-frequency resonance at night (and 13:00-16:00) that stops only when the upstairs window-type air conditioner switches off; it prevents sleep, and two friends confirmed the sound so the poster stopped doubting their own hearing. Replies discuss standing waves, spectrum apps, anti-vibration pads, and one commenter whose similar problem eased after talking to the neighbour (measured ~40 dB).

“因為低頻共振聲音明顯是機器設備造成”

A ground-floor renter in the Netherlands says an upstairs neighbor plays loud music day and night and that talking did not help. The low-frequency sound and vibration travel through the uninsulated concrete ceiling and walls and are felt in the body; they ask how to damp it.

A townhouse resident recovering from surgery hears deep bass from the adjoining unit most nights from about 11pm to 5am. Talking to the neighbor, ringing the doorbell and banging on the wall sometimes lowered the volume temporarily but the noise continues.