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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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.



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 always love how they just sort of prop or set the broken item back and assume you're not going to notice. Like nailing the dead parrot to its perch.

So many destroyed things. Had one cleaning lady I kept for years. She wasn't very good - but she had a very light touch!
I have not had someone move my speakers or subs, but I did have my sister-in-law while staying with us prior to the Philadelphia folk festival drape her underwear on them. Before anyone gets any ideas, we are all in our early to mid 60s. So...
As a licensed and practicing therapist I get asked this question repeatedly in different settings, but it’s the same fundamental question. Whether it be her moving your things, scoffing at your motorcycle, getting rid of your old torn t-shirts, whatever. My response is always the same:

How does she look in her underwear?