Cat damaged speaker, Help

Lemmycaution,

A year and a half later, do you think he has figured out a plan of action for his dilemma?

Shakey

This thread is so stupid, I want to get sick.

Replace your woofer, and keep your dam cat away from your system.

And get a life.

The op wasn't stupid. The direction just took a turn in the wrong direction. I own a cat and I own a dog. I'll never get another cat but I love this one enough to not care about the resale value of my equipment. She's not the greatest cat ever. She's not a lap cat etc. When she goes I won't replace her, however a day will not go by that I don't own a dog. If you see something up for sale from me, I will proudly state that I own a dog. It's wife, dog and then hi-fi for me. Then the kids. lol

I repaired the woofer without incident and the cat hasn't bothered them since. He is now too fat and old to jump up on the speakers. And for the person who said to "get a life", all I asked was if anyone knew of a product to fix the speaker. Personally, I think you are a horses ass.

Stereo5,
I wasn't going to chime in here since the thread was resuscitated long after you posted, but since you posted, I'd like to offer an advice and share my cat experience, which was similar to yours.

My girlfriend came with two cats, neither one declawed. When she moved in with me into my large studio apt in NYC, I asked her whether the cats would scratch my Totem Hawk speakers, which do not come with grills, and essentially have the same driver configuration as your Odysseys. She said no, and one of the cats of course tore a little "V" in the mid/woofer surround soon after. I wanted to kill the fcker and we almost broke up over it. I ended up using Shoe Goo to patch it up and it seemed to work very well. I then moved the speakers so that the drivers would face the wall every time I was doing listening, which was very tiresome. I then started using big paper shopping bags to cover the drivers. They are the type you get when you shop at the mall and fit nicely over the top of the speakers, and cats do not seem interested in that texture so they ignore it. Pretty? Hell no, but essentially free and very effective, and I could sleep soundly.

After that, I simply negotiated my own listening room when we moved into a new apartment, a compromise of sort - she gets to keep her cats, I get to get my own listening room where cats are not allowed. Every time I read a review or a post where people have their cats anywhere their equipment, like Sam Tellig from Stereophile, I cringe. There is no room for mistake here. My equipment is just too valuable to take any chance with cats (dogs might be a different thing perhaps). Once I experienced first hand what cats do at night when I had to share a small space with them in NYC, I will never let one anywhere near my stereo, even if declawed.