Guest suddenly takes it upon herself to move my speakers


Has this ever happened to anyone here?

You have your speakers positioned just as you like them, and then a guest takes it upon themselves to suddenly move your speakers?

Obviously I’m not going to get any sympathy from anyone in the non Audio world, so I thought I’d post my frustrating experience here.

I also imagine that many of your speakers can’t simply be slid out of position due to spikes or carpeting or sheer weight. Probably a good number of you, who like me have speakers on hardwood floors, have some marks in place to be able to return speakers to their exact position. (Which I didn’t)

But a recent female first time guest was sitting on the floor positioned between the speakers as we listened and for some reason decided that they should be pointed directly at her. Now some people might think “how obnoxious,” and others might think, ‘hey, a woman who wants the toe in angle optimzed for her seating position! She’s a keeper! Let her handle whatever she wants!”

And while I did like the enthusiasm, there was a supertweeter precariously balanced atop each speaker fireing rearward that could have easily toppled off and broken. (And no, there are no kids in the house).

I still haven’t found the exact sweet spot I had them in. For a long time I felt like a bit of an audio slacker since I never installed the factory spikes or rounded cones TAD provides for the CR1’s. Until a few months ago I read on another forum that many CR1 owners choose to just keep the stands on the floor, or haven’t found a benefit to using the spikes/cones on hardwood.

Obviously I’ll use the incident to try and eventually find an even more optimal positioning than they were in, but it still irks me that someone would just assume it’s okay to move a sophisticated audio setup that they truly know nothing about.

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Hahaha, yeah I’ve had idiots move my speakers. My drunken ex had a bunch of drunken friends from her HS reunion over. There might have been around 50 or more people at the house. My listening room was upstairs, looking down on the great room kitchen area where most people were. I had tunes going so you could hear throughout the house. At one point, a bunch went upstairs, moved my Thiel 2.2’s (on spikes) table and sofa so they could dance.

A spike fell out of one of the speakers (they just sort of slide into holes in the bottom) so it was listing to the starboard. No doubt they tried dragging first, but they were planted! Luckily no damage done to (70lb) speaker or carpet. I was cooking outside so I didn’t know what was going on, just one of my discoveries cleaning up late that evening.

And yes, I've got other horror stories over the decades. Luckily nothing severe.
Let's not move on the the horrors caused by cleaning ladies.
Turntable owners know this best.
Let's not move on the the horrors caused by cleaning ladies.
Turntable owners know this best.

Oh yeah. I've fought housekeepers for over 40 years. First thing is tell them the TT is off limits. Some of them start to freak when they see dust on the piano black and still try. Even with a dustcover they'll mess it up. Knocked off the stands, anti-skate laying on the base, belt off the track... 

But that's better than seeing a piece of "swiffer" hanging off of your stylus... 😭
Not having read the whole thread, did you mention whether or not you liked the sound better with the speakers in their new location?

I once set up a pair of Klipsch kg 1 on a pair of stands for my daughters graduation party.  I put my Revels in another room that was not being used.....good thing I did, I walked in and one of our guests was using it as a table,  he was literally eating potato salad on top of my speaker....   pretty rude