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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what the heck was a supertweeter doing facing backwards?

big deal, each time you re-do something, it takes less time and you may get it 'righter'. In which case she did you a favor.

actually, toed in more would have given a wider center image, and retained l/r off center better for 2 people, she must have latent audio genes. make those marks for 2 corners movable.

how I wish I could move my friends speakers, but I wouldn't dare.
To the OP, go to Amazon and purchase Bosch GLM20 laser measure, good to a 1/16 inch. Less than $40.

As a young audiophile I had a Radio Shack 140w/channel receiver and the large Advents, pretty good for a 16 yr old.  My dad doesn't know a thing about it and thought it was a passing "phase".  The loudest it could be played safely was at about 5.  I was sound asleep and my dad had shut off the breaker to my room, snuck into my room and set  it at 10 and hit the power button, went back down and turned the breaker on.
I almost had a heart attack, dove for the volume and hit it to 0.  I was so
pissed off I didn't talk to him for several days. Amazingly nothing was damaged.

Its 50 years later and I still tell anyone and everyone not to go freakin' near my gear.  I never leave workman alone in my music room. Period.