Noise reduction from neighboring properties - ideas?

Unfortunately, you have to be able to afford peace and quiet, you can almost determine that down to the euro. I notice that too and try to come to terms with it. (Zu) much really happens in the mind during such disturbances.

As far as your problem is bass-specific, sound diffusion will help little because low tones primarily propagate vibrationally – with diffusers you only scatter the overtones of the low tones – in other words, relatively high low tones and mid tones – but not the low tones themselves. Low tones need a lot of energy and therefore weaken after a short distance. The stronger low tones "arrive," the more they have probably been transmitted as vibrations rather than sound – and consequently through building components rather than through air.

Kids change a lot – but headbangers don’t turn into symphonic music lovers. The child would have to scream endlessly before the goth mom gives up her black lipstick.

So before I start with measures like counter-sound, I would try to have a conversation. Most people here are very nice, and I know the problem is in my head. I don’t want to appear as a constant grumbler in this new neighborhood, where we will probably all live together for a long time, just because I am very sensitive to music (bass).

If you mean a Makita radio, then is he working on the terrace? Then it’s just a temporary problem, right? Was it the first time now? Or do you think he will be constantly listening to the radio outside now?

I’d try curtains.
And if it really only happens a few times a year, then during that time go to Ikea, the hardware store, or the playground.
However, you won’t be able to always run away from bass or social noise your whole life... once summer comes, terraces are used, sometimes until 10 pm (or later). What about yoga? Totally serious :cool:

Whether this will become a permanent situation will probably only become apparent in summer, it will likely cool down soon. Right now he’s tinkering there, yes, and yesterday unfortunately right on our house side. So there were only a few meters of direct air distance between the radio and our house. I will definitely try curtains.

Oh yes, when I’m annoyed by noises in our current rental apartment I sometimes put on my noise-cancelling headphones without connecting them to any music medium. At least then I have some quiet time to relax and read a book or concentrate on something. I’ve also done that in the office :)

Yes, I could also try putting on the Bose, that feels quite good.
I’m quickly as annoyed by any “countermeasure” as by the disturbance itself. Then it immediately simmers inside me when I can’t behave normally as I usually would, but now have to carry around an annoying headphone / be displaced from my own house (keyword going to the playground/to Ikea etc.) / have to play counter music even though I don’t want to hear any – that just makes me internally even angrier. Hard to explain.

Is your baby really waking up or are you just afraid that it will wake up?!
Be glad you don’t have a neighbor who has the "hobby" of wood and rabbits. He’d be busy with the splitter all Saturdays;)

It’s hard to say, the baby woke up once shortly after the music started – of course I can’t prove that it was because of the music. But since he had only slept a few minutes, it seemed obvious.
We also have neighbors with a fireplace, but the chopping wood doesn’t bother me. Conversations or cars don’t bother me either. I’m really only sensitive when it comes to music.
I think it has to do with the fact that I cannot switch off in my head that my brain is following these bass lines. It tries to recognize patterns and analyzes the stuff continuously. I find it very hard to filter out music. I can’t listen to music while gaming either. I can’t focus on that. I even often turn off the game music in the settings because it distracts me. I also prefer music I already know over new music. Even if my favorite artist releases a new album, I first find it stressful to have to listen to this new music, to basically “get into it.” Most other people look forward to a new album from their favorite band. :D My ex-boyfriend found all that so curious that he suspected some kind of talent and said I should do an IQ test. So I did that once for fun, but it contained little that was specific to music patterns, so now I know my IQ approximately, but I didn’t get any further with the strange perception of music. :D

Unfortunately, peace is something you have to be able to afford, you can almost calculate it down to the euro. I notice that too and try to come to terms with it. (Too) much of such disturbances happens really in the mind.

That happens mainly in my head, that’s true. But that doesn’t solve my problem. ;)

Maybe I'll wait until next summer. Then everyone here will know each other better, and I'll see whether this is more of a permanent situation and he often has his "Makita" on in the garden, or if it was maybe unfortunate now because he just laid stones at the corner of our property. When mowing the lawn, he uses headphones anyway, and if he does something more centrally in his garden and the hedge is bigger, the sound might not carry as much here anymore.

I think that's good. I could also imagine that if he wears headphones when mowing the lawn, it doesn't bother him to put them on more often. Maybe you'll happen to see once if he sometimes wears headphones inside the house as well. From that, I would conclude that he knows the tension between noise/music/bass-unwanted listener and understands your concern.

Be glad you don't have a neighbor who has the "hobby" of wood and rabbits. He would be busy with the splitter all Saturdays long;)

Very good example that shows me how important the interpretation of sounds is. Wood splitter noises, church bells, etc. have never bothered me in the countryside because, as a former city child, I associate them with country life and village idyll, and in my mind I immediately picture the hardworking, tirelessly active farmers who work for our bread. Whereas in terms of bass, I react just like the thread starter.

I think it has to do with the fact that I can't switch off in my head that my brain is following these basslines. So it tries to recognize patterns and constantly analyzes this stuff. I find it very hard to tune out music. I also can't listen to music while playing video games. I can't concentrate then. I even often turn off the game's music in the settings because it distracts me. I also prefer to listen to music I already know rather than new music. Even when my favorite artist releases a new album, I initially find it stressful to have to listen to this new music, to basically have to "get into it."

You describe this really well, thanks for that, because I feel the same way and haven't been able to put it into words so well before.

Wood splitter noises, church bells, etc. never bothered me in the countryside because, as a former city child, I associate them with rural life and village idyll

I would have actually said it’s the other way around. People from the countryside know it and hardly notice it consciously. You’re probably the exception ;)

In our case, some newcomers even take legal action against church bells/cowbells/odor of manure etc.