Storage of other speakers in the room, shorting them while not in use? Myth or true?

Wait…now?  Haven’t we all been doing this already?  Now I’m embarrassed.

@nonoise ...not around me, you won't.

I do have some standards, and nude 'philes is just weird.  And only makes sense if one is a bass addict of preposterous proportions.....and not in just sheer girth.

"...land line phones..."  What about my cell?  The flat screens, wall & 'puters?

Any surface subject to sympathetic vibration....where to draw the line?!

What about windows, and I'm not talking 8, 10, or 11?!

How paranoid should I be?

Crazed 'n confused, J  😏

Connect electricity to a motor, it spins

Spin a motor, it becomes a generator and produces electricity

Put a load on the generator, it makes it difficult to spin

A speaker is a motor

Short the terminals, makes it difficult for the cone to move

And a dynamic driver, can be used as a passive radiator - albeit an inefficient one

But you really shouldn’t have any speakers in your room other than the ones your listening to…

Herb Reichert connects terminals on unused speakers in his review room. Also places them face to face when stored.

I think a double blind test is called for!  

Regards,

barts

There is absolutly no question that all other speakers in the room should be "shorted" to limit bass absorbing cone movement. I built over 200 HiFi stores with high end soundrooms  during my 40 year carrer in HiFi. When we designed and implimented a "shorting" speaker switching system, the measurable and audiable improvement was simply amazing. Now, having one or two pairs of "unshorted" speakers in the same room might not have the same effect as twenty or thirty pairs....but it can't hurt to just make up a couple short cables to short out your speakers in waiting.