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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Let’s consider all the possibilities. Maybe she was just a product of the militant fringes of certain audiophile forums who have a total disdain for experiences of others if different than their own. To test it, please ask her whether a USB cable can make a difference when a digital signal is involved.
Perhaps a simple question:

”Do you think it sounds better or looks better, in the new position?”
I have a simple, non gender specific solution...trap doors near the gear that immediately dump the over-curious into the basement or in the case of condo owners, the dumpster.
LOL!!!

The subject of your post makes me literally laugh out loud every time I read it! Mostly because it makes me laugh at myself! My god if anyone touched my speakers I would lose my mind!  I’m not religious but that is BLASPHEMY!

Thank you for making me laugh so hard at the end of a long week. 
@dworkman Glad I could entertain you.  That was the purpose, sharing an experience that only audio enthusiasts could appreciate.  I've since taken some time to experiment with new speaker placements, and I've marked the positions.

To answer a few questions, yes she was attractive and yes I was in the room when the "crime" occurred.  However I was on my phone adding to the playlist, so I didn't realize the first speaker was being moved until it was too late.  She was so quick that by the time I said "don't" she was already onto the second.  Like a car crash, it all happened so rapidly it was all a blur.  I'm hoping no permanent PTSD occurred, but I've increased my therapy sessions to two per week, just in case.  My therapist isn't an audiophile, so I'm currently looking for a new one, hopefully that embraces tubes in at least part of his system so he can help keep my anxiety in check through the current noisy 6SN7 issue I'm having.

There's more to the story that involves an infrared sauna, but perhaps it's best not to post that part.