Child Damage Mitigation

I’d just nail some chicken wire to the walls and to a wooden frame too high for the rugrats to climb and screen off all the equipment that way, get a remote line-level volume control if your amp does not already have one, and you’re all set. Not pretty but the kids are gonna make a mess of the place for the next few years anyway, so who cares?

...and then there’s that old advice I heard that may be of use in extreme situations....

Seal the child into a 55 gal. wooden barrel with 2 ’bung holes’; 1 at the top, labeled Input and 1 at the bottom labeled Output.

After 18 years, plug the holes.....

Just kidding....likely related to the observation that Bach had so many children because his organ lacked stops....

"...too high for the rugrats to climb..."

How high would that be? Higher it is, more chairs will be stacked to reach it.

@krelldreams Nice story of heirloom equipment. Care to say which speaks you are referring to?

@noroMy first pair of “good speakers” were Magnepan MG-1.4 (~1987). Those had the L-shaped feet, so they tilted back, with nothing extending to the front. Our first child (who was about a year and a half then) casually toddled up to the left speaker and pulled it forward. It fell right onto the floor, right in front of my eyes! She was fine, the speaker was fine (non—true-ribbon maggies are actually pretty tough). No harm, but that started my routine of repeated “reminding”! I’ve also had MG-1.5qr, SMGa, MG-3.3/R, 1.7, then 1.7i. I’ve owned other speakers as well, but always feel something that “I like” is missing from the various box speakers I’ve owned and heard.