No, that's not what I am saying at all...really, read what I said. The reading, by law, is taken in the hallway. I don't care what happens in your bedroom anytime, but not here either, because that's not the law. It seems dumb to me that 2 people having a conversation in the hallway is the same dB as what they got coming thru the door of the apartment into the hallway, but one is fine, the other is not...unless you're going to tell me that people having a conversation in the hallway is now illegal. And yes, I realize that the noise they'd have to be making would be much louder than that in their apartment, but essentially, if the conversation is legal and the noise coming out of their apartment is not, the legality is strictly hinged on whether it's coming thru a door or not. "well, cap'n, we read 60 dB in the hallway, should we ticket someone?" "Depends...is there a door involved?"