Childproofing Speakers

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.

I've been through four kids and now half a dozen grand kids. The "fence" works to an extent, but as they grow it becomes less effective.

If you have full size speakers with threaded inserts for the spikes, you have threaded inserts that will work pretty well to hold a broader base to the bottom of the speaker. It's just a matter of choosing a base material and popping the holes.

I'm now saying that this will withstand anything that you could throw at it, but it will help to prevent those blink of an eye "oops" situations.

I remember having to deal with this with my last child. I had Studio 40s on stands and those weighed 40lbs each. They were also pretty easy to knock over.

Personally, I just gave up on the whole situation. My wife wanted an entertainment center to keep things up and out of the way as well. I just resorted to using really small speakers on shelves in the entertainment center. I'm running Silverline Minuets now.