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Childproofing Speakers

I have a pair of Totem Hawks and a 8 month year old daughter who is now crawling and trying to use anything she can to help learn how to stand. Unfortunately, these are not the most stable speakers they are relatively light and have only three speaker spikes in a tripod like design.
Does anyone have any experience making these speakers more stable. I have been considering outriggers from Soundocity but this would only help protect from pushing left to right and not front to back. Also, I believe, but am not sure, that I would need to drill into the speaker base to use these outriggers.

Ideas?
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rlwainwright
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It might be time to consider replacing your floorstanders with some wall mounts and subwoofer(s). The Gallo Strada 2s and Reference AVs are *very* fine-sounding speakers that can be mounted up and away from the wee one. Mate them to a Velodyne Digital Drive subwoofer(s) with DSP and you will have a VERY good-sounding system indeed.

You could certainly live with these for 5-6 years until the child is old enough and stable enough on her feet to not pose a problem...

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tboooe
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What about using one of those modular play pens/cages? I created a circular pen around my speakers when my daughters were younger.
rlwainwright
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That is a good idea, Tbooo! And not very expensive, either. Good thinkin', laddie!

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tonyangel
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If you have grills for your speakers, leave them on. It makes the speakers much less interesting, on top of protecting the drivers. As far as protecting the kid goes, the pen idea is nice, but you also have to consider that she might be able to get around it somehow. Kids are resourceful.

I'd either get speakers up on shelves or make the ones you have more stable, ie, add a larger base.
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philjolet
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I remember when I brought some speakers over to my sisters house her five year old son walked right up to one of them and pushed the tweeter dome in (as I watched in shock).

needless to say I agree with Tonyangel

good luck!
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