Why do we hear our upstairs neighbors but rarely downstairs neighbors?

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Why do we hear our upstairs neighbors but rarely downstairs neighbors?

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A lot of the noise gets transferred into the floor. Whenever you are walking or moving around you constantly make noise at the floor. But you rarely put something at the ceiling with enough force to make much noise. Even just a speaker sitting on the floor will make some of the sound go directly into the floor, people do not tend to hang speakers from the ceiling.