Guest suddenly takes it upon herself to move my speakers


Has this ever happened to anyone here?

You have your speakers positioned just as you like them, and then a guest takes it upon themselves to suddenly move your speakers?

Obviously I’m not going to get any sympathy from anyone in the non Audio world, so I thought I’d post my frustrating experience here.

I also imagine that many of your speakers can’t simply be slid out of position due to spikes or carpeting or sheer weight. Probably a good number of you, who like me have speakers on hardwood floors, have some marks in place to be able to return speakers to their exact position. (Which I didn’t)

But a recent female first time guest was sitting on the floor positioned between the speakers as we listened and for some reason decided that they should be pointed directly at her. Now some people might think “how obnoxious,” and others might think, ‘hey, a woman who wants the toe in angle optimzed for her seating position! She’s a keeper! Let her handle whatever she wants!”

And while I did like the enthusiasm, there was a supertweeter precariously balanced atop each speaker fireing rearward that could have easily toppled off and broken. (And no, there are no kids in the house).

I still haven’t found the exact sweet spot I had them in. For a long time I felt like a bit of an audio slacker since I never installed the factory spikes or rounded cones TAD provides for the CR1’s. Until a few months ago I read on another forum that many CR1 owners choose to just keep the stands on the floor, or haven’t found a benefit to using the spikes/cones on hardwood.

Obviously I’ll use the incident to try and eventually find an even more optimal positioning than they were in, but it still irks me that someone would just assume it’s okay to move a sophisticated audio setup that they truly know nothing about.

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Give her a break. Women tends to be touchy before and
during valentines day.
seriously though, she’s “at home”. Either a good thing or
a bad thing?; only you can decide.
One Christmas day I watched in horror as my mother-in-law backed into my Martin Logan Aerius and tipped it over.
I swear it seemed like I was watching it all unfold in front of me  in slow motion
That’s why there are sites like Audiogon. Only audiophiles understand fellow audiophiles 
I have that covered. Anyone who tries to move my speakers is going to get a 6000 volt shock from my custom adjustable high voltage power supply which I felt no need to cover. Certainly not UL approved:) 
You now have the perfect excuse to invite her back for a speaker-position-tweaking session!  And her ears may be better at it than yours, because she is probably completely free of our preconceived notions!

Audiophile etiquette can be picked up but audiophile enthusiasm for "dialing it in" cannot.  If she innately cares that much about sound quality, dude, give it every possible chance to work out between you. 

Duke