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I don't agree with your characterization of this as "minor". Loud stereo speakers are an unignorable assault on the liberty of others to be unmolested in their homes. Doesn't the person trying to get to sleep have rights too?

Well, we have a lot of people who think that forgetting to put a gun lock on your gun is a major offense. We have people that think that stepping one foot over a line near an abortion clinic with a sign is the worst thing you can do. If the majority decides that those things are major offenses, like you do with the subwoofers, will you accept seizure of your property for those offenses and accept it willingly?

We have to think about protection of fundamental liberties....even for people we hate, dislike, or have no feelings for.

If the government attempts to seize Hillary Clinton's car and make her prove that it wasn't used in a crime I would speak up because I believe that act to be unconstitutional and against what the nation was founded for. Same thing here even though I don't like subwoofers at the stoplight at all. Fine them, give them a 10 day public service, order them to remove the speakers, hold them in contempt if they don't. But the government should not be in the business of paying its way by seizing property from its citizens. Dangerous for all.

You seem to totally forget the liberties of the people assaulted by these stereo systems - this is not a theoretical harm like a gun lock or an invented one as in the abortion clinics', but real actual harm. People have the right to sleep in their own homes without this audio assault.

Those examples simply aren't appropriate. An appropriate example would be claiming the right to shine floodlights into peoples' houses. If you can do sound, why not light (or smell)? Should I have the freedom to make a stinky garbage pile next to my neighbor's house, drowning them in odors? Is that an essential liberty that the Founders fought for?