This is no joke.

Personally, I dont think they do anything at all other than look weird. (My wife hates them, but she wont let me have a cat so I'm punishing her).

The sand bags may change the sound but not necessarily for the better. A lot of speakers are designed to have 'live' sounding cabinets and it's one reason why mdf is used less than plywood in speaker cabinet making.

I have mass-loaded my cabinets though with 12.5 pounds of lead in each. I think the change was very modest, not really noticeable to me (tin ear maybe).

I was wondering when the PC police would arrive to clean up this site. Doesn't everyone feel more secure now that they're here?

Didn't think so.

Fpeel - absolutely, the pc police have a very distinguished history - let's not forget all the good they did in another country in the late 30s and early 40s - how well they protected people from the whole 'degenerate art' movement - what was that group? You know the one with goebbels and the little guy with the funny mustache.

Musicnoise,
If you really consider your references to "cats nailed to speakers" an art form, you are sadly mistaken.
And your attempt to paint those, who are disgusted by your perverted "sense of humor" as fascists, is sadder still.
And will you stop crying about being misunderstood already?

Fpeel and NOISE:

Get a grip on humanity and join the race.

This is an audio forum, not a sadistic-freak-serial killer to be, or not to be forum.

Read the news lately (people are being prosecuted, as they should, for abusing animals)?

I find your comments (and defense of such) to be both offensive and alarming.

I'm not PC (as you put it) and suggest that you both...