The people upstairs have insisted upon playing some sort of hip hop with their subwoofer turned all the way up. I can't hear the music, only the steady pulse of the kickdrum. My solution? Fight fire with fire. I'm pretty sure my stereo would deafen me before they could drown it out, and I'm also reasonably sure that my stereo down here can overpower whatever they have upstairs, especially if I turned my mids towards the ceiling. And besides, if I'm going to have to listen to the pounding beat of a kick, it might as well be the furious double bass of Fear Factory's Demanufacture. Adam 1, neighbors 0.