Living in urban setting in an apartment building-monitor dilemmas.get real!

no one here ever discusses the vicissitudes of urban living and recording music in their humble abode. It seems taken for granted that we can all blast our music
our bass our treble our woofers and what have you. Well some of us just cant!
Never! If i play my music a trifle loud ( relative ofcourse ) the doorman will be alerted and a porter will be at my door listening in to verify the claim.
It is very easy for all of us to think that we can blast the bass and listen with great speakers/monitors when we just cant!
No one every talks about this. NEVER! There are never articles about this or atleast questions about it that i see........ Pretty naive to think we all live in the same environment. I use headphones MOST of the time and thats just a fact of life.
IT is what it is....................
now someone enlighten me here.

Glenn ,
Since you are somewhat confined to headphone listening let me suggest you look into quality headphones and related gear. There is some real magical gear available for the music lover particularly suited for your situation and your love of music. Your ears will thank you. Go spend some time over at http://www.head-fi.org/ There is a world of headphones, headphone amps, and DAC's that are incredible. The fact that you are in NYC means you will probably find a number of places were you can audition most of the gear you'd be interested in.
For not all that much green you can find something to put on your ears that will seem like your dreaming music with your eyes open.
I would suggest you get a dedicated outboard DAC for your computer and your CD player (if you use one). Then a dedicated headphone amp, solid state or tube. They are making some incredibly inexpensive headphone amps these days. Personally I prefer a tube/solid state hybrid.
Then of course the headphones.
If you have any questions you can email me for suggestions (and of course biased opinion).

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