Car stereos...

[Dreamstalker]

Unrelated, but similar. I used to get into (unintentional) thumpa-thumpa wars with the girl in the apartment next to mine during senior year. The walls were shit--basically drywall over steel frame. Voices from her place didn't carry, but her death-metal did.

What finally did the trick?

The resident audiophile's uberspeakers against the shared interior wall, a set of earplugs, and a taiko CD. I could actually feel my desk vibrating.

[JustADude]

The resident audiophile's uberspeakers against the shared interior wall, a set of earplugs, and a taiko CD. I could actually feel my desk vibrating.

Bah, you didn't have it up loud enough if it just vibrated.

A guy I know that's a huge audiophile built himself an ultra-high fidelity system that he can't ever turn up past 4 without things starting to rattle. The one time he got some earplugs and cranked it to full volume the furniture near the Sub-woofer started to 'walk' across the floor.

[Dreamstalker]

Well, those apartment units were known for being built by the lowest bidder, and I didn't want anything coming crashing down that wasn't supposed to. Had this war taken place in the dorms (cinderblock construction), I would have been tempted further.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

People keep telling me my Caliber has attitude (De la gueule, to use the literal term).
so I decked the interior with Mickey Mouse accessories.

People keep telling me I'm cute.
So I blare Wierd Al's "Trigger happy" or even "La petite Grenouille" at every stoplight.

(If any Quebecorkians in here, you'll know what "La petite Grenouille" is. I sing along to that one)

My Stereo can boom boom, but it doesn't need to do it at 2 AM.

[Dragon_Dreamer]

I used to get into Volume wars in college, and we did have the cinderblock walls.

My Gateway 2000 Altec Lansing speakers, blasting classic rock at half volume, tended to usually WIN vs boomboxes at FULL volume a floor and a few rooms away.

Sadly, they need repairs from a fall they took off my desk. They have metal grilles on front, so that part of it's fine, but their connectors need replacing because the speakers ended up hanging from them. They've been flaky since. New splice, when I can find the time, and they'll be good as new.

[JustADude]

So I blare Wierd Al's "Trigger happy" or even "La petite Grenouille" at every stoplight.

Is that "The little frog?" or is Babblefish acting up again?

Oh, and I've got a car that should practically have a windup key sticking out of the back window, but it's got a great (stock) sound system. Loud, good fidelity, and has good low-end without excessive Thump. Whenever I'm up near a group of Wiggers*, I like to pop in a mix of parody hip-hop that has mostly Weird Al (White & Nerdy, All About the Pentiums, Amish Paradise, etc) with a few others for filler, and crank it up to as high as I'm comfortable with. Always gets a good look from them since, while I'm pure Euro-mutt and drive an econo-box, I'm still Blacker than they are**, and my best friend, who I usually hang out with, is one of the seemingly 10 Black people in town.





*Wiggers are the closest we've got to gang-bangers around here. I'm not kidding. The 'ghetto' around here has less crime than the middle-class areas where I grew up.

**Most of my friends in K-12 were Black, as were most of the customers at Blockbuster job. Apparently I picked up up on enough of the style and attitude to get at least minimal credibility where it actually counts.

[Pagan]

Just what is the whole process for disinfecting your speakers after running that thru them...megasnicker

After running what through them? Irish music?

[myswtghst]

Speaking of home stereo wars, thanks to my brother and father, who upgrade their equipment constantly, I have plenty of high-quality, noisy audio equipment in my place. So when my neighbor decides to have an impromptu 80's dance party with herself in her apartment, listening to the worst dance music of the 80's and singing along (she's tone deaf, I must add), I simply turn up the metal/hardcore (KSE, Soilwork, Shadows Fall, Pantera, etc) music I have from college, and wait. It usually takes less than 5 minutes for her to give up.

[ArenaBoy]

I can usually end a car stereo war by blasting KMFDM, Alice in Chains, Faith No More, Soundgarden, Jane's Addiction, or Steve Vai . Same things for home stereo wars but of course it helps if you have a father who has a background in sound.