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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uncle monkey

Yup.

When I upgraded my turntable a couple years ago I took the plunge and spent a whopping amount on a Transrotor turntable which came with a really expensive cartridge. I didn’t even set it up for the first month or so as I re-built my equipment rack with an isolation base during that time.Finally, just before we went away on a week vacation the rack was ready, I set up the turntable and had time for about 1/2 hour listen just to make sure things were working. Yay. It sounded glorious.

Came home from vacation, went to listen to a record and...wha? The cartridge was hanging off the arm at a wild angle! Aside from being alarming it was completely perplexing? What the hell happened?

Then I remembered: The Cleaning Lady! She had come while we were away!

I called her and sure enough, yes, she remembered that big new shiny thing in the corner of the room. She was cleaning around it with a cloth and heard a sudden "bang!" Said she notice the long silver thing (arm) hanging at a weird angle. "I guess it caught on my cleaning cloth when I moved my arm." She placed it back like she thought it supposed to be and went on none the wiser. Yup, her cleaning cloth had snagged on the cartridge needle, yanking it off the arm and slamming the arm off the table on to the platter.

Half and hour. Just half an hour of listening to my new expensive turntable is all I got in before the cleaning lady ravaged it. Sigh...

I would truly like to understand how it would be acceptable to enter someone's house,and think it would be "ok" to move the hosts electronics,furniture or any other items in the house. This is NOT proper behavior. PERIOD. 
   If you think in any way,shape or form that it is ok,you and I are destined not to be friends or pleasant acquaintances. I was brought up to respect people and their property. 
   
    Sometimes,people suck.
Common sense would have prevented 99.47% of people from moving the speakers. This one got loose.
Common sense would have prevented 99.47% of people from moving the speakers. This one got loose.

Slight correction, common sense would have prevented 99.47% of adults from.....

Need a whole different percentage for young kids, they don't usually realize that the big people's speakers are revered holy objects, not just old boxes with cloth on them or funny little round thingies that move when you poke them.