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Child Damage Mitigation

Last week the wife and I brought a new baby home - our first - and it's been fun introducing her to the music we love. It dawned on me this morning that this child will be crawling before I know it and my lovely pair of Magnepan 3.7's might be sitting ducks. They're less agile than the cat, closer to the ground than the house plants, and more fragile than the couch. As I've calculated I've got approximately 6 months to find a way to prevent any child-induced damage so your input is greatly appreciated. What can I learn from the grand wisdom of AG about how to keep the kid away from the speakers? 
hapafoto
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freedeez
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Machine gun emplacement with landmines has worked for me.  Seriously if you can't move them to another more secure room, I would fence them for the first two years then teach them not to touch afterwards.  Either way, you have to assume that they will touch it and possibly damage it.  My buddy opened his Oppo player tray only to find it packed with Peanut butter.  If it does happen it gives you a good reason to upgrade and the wife can't argue. 
isochronism
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I also recall a friend's child tried to play a PB&J sandwich in their VCR.
jetter
3,035 posts
 
I find it interesting that some posters think that buying monitors and placing them on stands (whether weighted or not) is a wise move.  To me it is a recipe for disaster.

As a young kid my son would open the glass door of the stereo cabinet and push on the power button of my then integrated.  Then one day he managed to do it concurrent with turning the volume to 11.  Shocked both of us, and funny he was more reluctant to mess with the stereo thereafter..  
glupson
7,842 posts
 
"I also recall a friend’s child tried to play a PB&J sandwich in their VCR."
This reminded me of something unrelated to speakers.

If you have a CD/DVD player or something like that and you cannot find some CDs/DVDs in their cases, take the cover off, remove all 10 CDs/DVDs that you daughter managed to push in the player without you noticing, put the cover back on. It is surprising that these players play with a bunch of discs crammed inside (not on the tray, though).
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surferandy
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Train your child by all means but the real danger is when their FRIENDS are in your house. Especially if you have tube amps - the ultimate child magnet.
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