ANC for Apartments: Reducing Neighbor's Loud Music with Bose Headphones & Directional Mic?

Welcome,

I am a person with quite good hearing and I am sensitive to noise. The neighbor in the apartment above me has powerful floor loudspeakers and often plays until 2-3 at night with a volume that makes me hear what he is listening to. Because conversations with him had no effect, I thought that instead of sleeping in stopwatches I could adapt e.g. Bose headphones from ANC to actively suppress noise in the room where the bed is located. I am thinking about buying them, stripping them and plugging them into a home audio system (I have decent playing equipment), e.g. releasing CD silence, instead of factory converters I would connect an amplifier with loudspeakers and instead of a microphone I would use some directional microphone directed to a specific place in the room.
I realize that this is a very difficult task and a lot of physical and acoustic phenomena are involved.
A question for you, is such a marriage likely to succeed? More and more cars have such systems on board (not only premium but e.g. some Fords), I have heard about methods of active noise suppression in office buildings, restaurants (run by John Mayer), so maybe it can be applied to a part of the room where I sleep?
I was looking for information on the net but apart from a few general materials I didn't find anything specific. There are such toys on Amazon as white noise generators to imitate rain or fan noise but this is not suitable for my needs.

Thank you for the hints.

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This can't be done because the source of noise that reaches you is diffused and comes in different ways and is subject to various delays and phase shifts.
Active systems can suppress directed sounds, i.e. sounds coming from one direction, e.g. from a ventilation duct or from a window, but in your case the sounds reach both from the vibrating ceiling, walls, through ventilation and through the air through doors and windows.
In this situation, these are only active headphones, because then the microphone will receive sound that directly reaches the ears, but the use of ordinary stoppers or soundproofing headphones will be much cheaper, similarly effective and similarly uncomfortable.

In such a situation, if you want to get rid of the problem, it's just talking to your neighbor or sending the police or a complaint to the building administrator.

Plumpi wrote:

This can't be done because the source of noise that reaches you is diffused and comes in different ways and is subject to various delays and phase shifts.
Active systems can suppress directed sounds, i.e. sounds coming from one direction, e.g. from a ventilation duct or from a window, but in your case the sounds reach both from the vibrating ceiling, walls, through ventilation and through the air through doors and windows.
In this situation, these are only active headphones, because then the microphone will receive sound that directly reaches the ears, but the use of ordinary stoppers or soundproofing headphones will be much cheaper, similarly effective and similarly uncomfortable.

In such a situation, if you want to get rid of the problem, it's just talking to your neighbor or sending the police or a complaint to the building administrator.

Fact, I didn't think about the fact that each band has a different transmission path, basses on the structure, walls, etc. otherwise medium band. And therefore the frequency and phase of the vibrations change.
While you can listen to music in active headphones, you can't sleep in them. Similarly, stopwatches - they are not comfortable and fall out during the night.

Unfortunately, all you have to do is enter the legal forum and see that, apart from negotiation, there is no effective method of fighting a bothersome neighbor. And they are not effective in this case. I was, I talked several times in a nice atmosphere, the man invited me to the apartment, presented the equipment for several thousand. zł. but what if it did not meet his understanding that even audiophile equipment reproducing jazz or blues music (which I listen to myself) can be burdensome for neighbors at night. And the rest of the neighbors are usually students renting apartments temporarily. So it remains sleeping in stopwatches or moving out.

bratScyzoryk wrote:

So it remains sleeping in stopwatches or moving out.

Or report to the police disturbing the silence of the night.
Fact - the final solution, but since the word and request did not arrive?

I don't know what status your house / block has, but if it is a community, cooperative or communal one, there is definitely a silent entry in the regulations. A few interventions of the cooperative, police or city guard should stabilize the situation.
I would like to add that combinations with active or (low-budget) with passive attenuation are of little use.

Regards.