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What happens when the Wife cleans the audio room

Well ladies and gentlmen,

I sat down last night after work to enjoy some music. To my suprise the sound stage was left of center on the first track I listened to so I tried another track same thing. I looked things over and noticed my left speaker had been moved. No big deal I will just move it back. Not. I got the sound stage centered again with a loss in bass :(.

Now mind you the speaker had not been moved more than an inch. Yes it made a profound difference.

The moral of this story is clean your audio rooms yourselves and then the only person you can blame when something goes wrong is yourself.

I am not looking forward to the hours I will now have to spend to get the speaker positioned correctly again. Toe in here, toe in there, 1/4" here, 1/4" there.

Have a good day.

Michael
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pehare
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Michael, consider yourself lucky-I found a marred/damaged edge to a Martin Logan SL-3 I used to own provided by my wife via the vacuum cleaner. Guess she'd be more careful if she knew how much they really cost. ;)
wrtickle
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I have traced on my floor in pencil a partial outline of two of the cone supports for each speaker. This way when we have parties or clean the apartment I can move the speakers without worrying about dialing in the position again.

nutella
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Once you have found your ideal speaker position, write it down. Be very detailed. That way if you do decide to move them (or the wife does) you have your position recorded.
My ex-wife once cleaned all of my gear with orange glow. I spent a hours trying to get the streaks out of everything. She even once offered to put all the light bulbs (tubes) in the dishwasher to make them "nice and sparkly".
On the upside our house was spotless.
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