My Dartboard is too LOUD!

If you've ever had complaints from your neighbours about the repetitive thud of your dartboard being too loud you might just want to sick around and watch this video.

I install and test out the Winmau 'Wispa' to see if I can ease the headache of my Mormon friends next door!

[paulbrown]

Putting a wispsa board up at 1:20am in the morning and your worried about the neighbours complaining about noise lol 😂 oh Sam you crack me up lol 😂

[wilks]

I've got the Wispa, it still does make sound in the room, but it travels WAY less. And more importantly, it doesn't vibrate through walls.

[vulcanus]

The question is not so much about how much it reduces the decibels in the same room, but rather whether the sound is transmitted through the wall to the neighbors. Therefore, if the dartboard is more separated from the wall, the difference for the neighbors is like night and day.

[DionPilkington]

Worried about pissing off the neighbours then the man is drilling at 1 o'clock in the morning

[MatadorDarts]

What I've noticed with the wispa is that the best effect is playing without the surround. The sound from the board travels through the surround, onto the system and then into the wall. So although it is quieter in other rooms if people say they can still hear it late at night etc. just take the surround off

[twoone]

The room is the biggest factor imo. I had mine on a stand in my kitchen, so loud but eliminates the thud on the wall. I've now got it in a small room screwed to a rubber floor mat on the back of my door it's so quiet I can play darts at 3am no problem.

[micxael_]

I have the same product as I live with my nan and she goes to bed quite early so this product is perfect for the noise

[callumlumb]

Love that from you Sam this is why you’re the goat

[diximat]

I have a Wispa. My family is happy. It goes from a thud to a tick.

[DavidLee-teoz]

My neiebour could hear darts on normally mounted board throughout his entire house. With wispa he hears nothing in the next room exactly the same as a stand that i was having to use. I used a decibel meter on my phone placed 2 rooms away. The darts could clearly be heard on the wall but absolutely no response from the decibel meter. In the room directly behind the darts on the wispa could still just be heard as a gentle tick. Compared to the normaly mounted it was over 75 percent quieter. Same result as using a stand. I have given my stand away and can play at night.

[kyleleslie]

Personally I think having a couple bits of carpet underlay is more beneficial and does the same job

[thomasfjendbo]

How do you know with size using in the hans drill? And is the bradrawl for marking the center om the wispa board?

[The_OG]

Question, when rotating the board do you need to unscrew the plate and drill new holes?

[Sharkfin]

About 4-5 months ago I decided to move my setup from the other side of my room next to my neibours wall but not on my neibours wall. I started playing at about 10 o’clock at night and played for about an hour. The next morning I got up and started playing again and then I heard a knock at the door. The old prick from next door was standing at the door questioning the tapping/ banging noise which he could hear that was “driving him nuts”. He Reckoned it was disrupting his and his wife’s sleep and they were struggling to sleep with the sound of the darts. I had to get a wispa which cost about 80quid and I assumed this had solved the problem so I started playing again. But I was wrong it hadn’t solved to problem I was still getting complaints so once again I had to move the board to a different wall.

[smojogo]

Neighbours complain about the noise.... Solution: Get your drill out at 0:40am 🤣

[jamiedrummer]

Was that first hole in the back of the board drilled straight🤣..

[kyleleslie]

Did you find your board shakes with it up?

[gregcarnall]

Does this stop you being able to rotate the board easily?

[AAB-xn]

Says he’s worried about the noise for the neighbours but starts drilling and dropping the board at 20 to 1 in the morning 😂 must hate them

[chrisreddy]

Before you pay 80 odd quid for this, fit some underlay to the back of your board. It fills the gap and takes out the boom effect. Worked for me and my neighbours. Have you tested the karella?