Why not try the obvious trade apartments..... especially if your first floor
one has a cement floor.... even if it doen't you won't hear much....

Rgds:
Eric
"jason" wrote in message
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Barry Mann wrote:

A carpet with a thick pad upstairs would help.

That much he has...

A microcassette recorder is the wrong technology to use for this
purpose. A very good microphone and recorder would help, but even if
you successfully recorded the sound, I don't know how you would play it
back and make your point.

Consider: If you recorded a train rushing by, then played it back on a
small home audio system, the recording would lack impact. The actual
situation might take your breath away and/or trigger body responses
that occur only when it thinks the end is near. It is unlikely that you
will have access to a playback system the will generate the required
impact.

Good point...That plus the inability to pick up the low freqs. I
actually tried taping my dishwasher, but noisy as it is, it sounded
muffled, and had zero "impact".

If you used some sort of sound pressure measuring device, you could
build a better case, but only if one of you is expert enough to
interpret the measurement results and can explain them to the other(s).

Hmmm...that's interesting. I talked to Radio Shack about a decibel meter
- not sure if it's the same thing. But they said it should be integrated
with a recorder so the results would be credible. So it's kind of a
circular thing. Hard to get around that recorder... Plus it would be
nice for the neighbor to hear it, because he's not likely to believe his
walking makes so much racket without it.


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Cheers,
jason