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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I did laugh out loud at this thread, so spouse and houseguest asked “ what’s up? “ so I gave them the synopsis...

long silence from houseguest who also housesitter at our Seattle place...

she says - I didn’t want to say anything because I thought you knew that the gal who cleans house moved the speakers out into the room - it looks like you are getting ready to paint...

I have been over the last year moving them out 2” every visit and have now got them out an additional 14”....

wife looks sideways at me...

I told her how to slow boil a frog
Call the insurance company, there's a claim to be made. And please don't be too hard on the gal, she might have just been comparing the setup to her i-phone ear buds, a classic rookie mistake. What was playing on your system and where you out of the room (doing what) when it happened? 
@stereo5 wrote: "You gentlemen are very good at blowing this off as nothing. I would love to see your reaction if it happened to one of you. I bet everyone of you who said to “get over it” would not be able to."

I had it happen in the final half-hour leading up to the opening of an audio show. A well-meaning friend came into the room and "fixed" my speakers’ toe-in. So I let him listen like that for a song or two then put them back the way I wanted, which to his surprise actually worked as advertised. He learned more that way than if I had taken it as a personal affront. 

Some things may be worth taking offense over, but most are not.

Duke




Guests are allowed to do anything. Otherwise the host is not that great.


Thats ridiculous. So if a guest wants to place his drink on top of an expensive speaker possibly marring the nice finish and also lowering its resale value, I should just suck it up and not ameliorate the situation because “the guest is always right?”

Sorry, no. I think you are looking at this from only one side. I wouldn’t want to incaringiy ruin anything my host owns when I’m invited somewhere. And I don’t teach my kids “you can do whatever the hell you want at someone’s house because your the guest.” Do you?