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Thank you for the URLs.

I wonder if what doesn't record is loud enough to activate it.

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The sound meter has an output jack after the preamp to let you either record the signal being measured, or to look at it on a scope. Other than the plastic nose piece and yellow knob, it looks quite a bit like my 20+ year old Radio Shack meter.

This all sounds a bit hasty to me. Have you actually tried a) talking to those making the noise, who may not for all you know , be fully aware of the nuisance they cause, and b) talking to the landlord about it? If so, what was their response(s)? usually these things can be settled with quiet but firm words in the right ear, rather than jumping to collecting 'evidence' and geting into legal action. Just my .02 worth

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Higher end digital sound recorders seem to not be a Buy More/office supply/Radio Shack type item. But I've seen them in the local electric guitar store's flyers. A bit pricier than the Sony, $150-$300 and more. Also probably a good place to get a better than average quality microphone. (Also, there's probably a store or two in any major metro area that specializes in pro and semi-pro video production equipment, maybe even rentals).

Or maybe Radio Shack still sells their sound level meter, (or Frys, or one of the mail order electronic instrument outfits). Combine that with a video record what it sounds like during of the events.

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So call the landlord, and let them deal with it. No recording is going to be worth a hill of beans, because you have no indication of the volume of the sound. A sound meter would work, but a recording is worth exactly nothing.

Then what are you doing here? You are asking how to take action, and saying you don't think it is necessary. I'm confused.

Is that in the lease? Padwan, you have a lot to learn in this life.

Appreciate your approach, but all that has been already exhausted.

A video & audio recording of the sound level meter would. One with a valid time stamp, or small 'Atomic Clock' next to the sound level meter would be even better.

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Does the dBC spec follow sound pressure?

Or, does it follow the Fletcher-Munson Curve?

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Excellent site!

That verifies the C-weighted curve extends flat to lower frequencies.

Good luck 'Squelching' them. ;-)

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Thank you for this URL !!!

Received from Harbor Freight within 5 days of order. Nice product.

The output is from the microphone/preamp, and not meter display. If it had been meter display, could have borrowed one of those chart recorders with time of day, and marked which ones are from offending tenant.

VERY INTERESTING meter peaking measurements:

TV, set at our normal listening level =3D 56 TV, set for poor sound films, a bit uncomfortable =3D 58 Conversation above TV =3D 60 to 62 Heavy diesel trucks outside =3D 62 Water faucet full output =3D 66 Bathroom exhaust fan =3D 68 Roaring motorcycle (also outside) =3D 68

Tenant usual thumps (like dragging furniture, or kicking walls) =3D 60 to 64 Tenant made concussive sounds (like throwing weights on floor) =3D 66 to

the morning of March 25, tenant made such sounds from 2:10am through

So, thank you for this meter. It provides evidence supporting our claim that these sounds are obtrusive and not just a subjective impression, nor based upon a 'sensitivity' to sounds.

Hells bells! Have you spoken to the other tenants about this?

Noise levels like that during the night must have woken most of the immediate neighbours.

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You're welcome.

Actually, no one else is greatly affected. Flats are 'sound proofed' causing sound to only go vertically. Thus from top floor down into our flat. Absolutely barely hear anything in the hallway outside origin flat.

Sometimes the tenants below us have pounded on their ceiling (our floor), evidently thinking it's coming from us. And, that really catches us in the middle.

According to management, no one else has complained. But that always strikes me like a customer service complaint response, "No one else has that problem." ...ok

I did find a tenant adjacent to the offending flat that claimed to hear, and properly characterize the origin, "sounds like throwing a ball around the room" and promise to call management, but weasels is weasels, it never happened. In spite of 3 requests and 3 promises to complain.

Talk about serrendipitous timing. Just today caught part of a Korean TV KBS show called 3 Days. In the segment I caught, a Sr. Program Director corrects a rooky PD who is editing a piece to be shown later that night. The rooky PD had used the phrase "irritating deciBel level" and the Sr PD corrected him saying, "That's confusing. Be specific. Just, say 70 deciBels." They think 70 dB is irritating! We get hit with over 72 to 74 dB from the tenant above!

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It may just be out of stock. They pull a listing when something isn't availible. It has happened to me several times, then I walk into the local store a few weeks or months later and they are back in stock. Also, they change the stock number if they change suppliers.

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I'll check later. I was surprised at the $14+ price. I can't even get boxes w battery compartments, let alone knobs, switches, panel meters, etc for those kinds of prices.

But, everything from Cen-Tech looked extremely low priced, like everything is discontinued.

Examples, laser level for $49, non-contact thermometers for $22 etc