I used to have my own tube radiola(record player combined with tuner amp and speakers) at the age of 4 along with collection of records including 78rpm.
Well, I don't have any dedicated listening room and my rig is in my living room. My son now is a-bit above 1 and he already broke a toggle(power) switch on my phono preamp. I wasn't dissapointed at all since my son is much more dear to me than my rig -- I've just ordered one and soldered back. He loves to tap the speaker drivers, but now he already understands my command to leave it. He knows already that tube amps I have is hot so he never even looks onto them. I believe that in half more year or less I will have no problem leaving my rig without risk.
My wife very often have to turn on music for him to listen while he eats.
Well, I don't have any dedicated listening room and my rig is in my living room. My son now is a-bit above 1 and he already broke a toggle(power) switch on my phono preamp. I wasn't dissapointed at all since my son is much more dear to me than my rig -- I've just ordered one and soldered back. He loves to tap the speaker drivers, but now he already understands my command to leave it. He knows already that tube amps I have is hot so he never even looks onto them. I believe that in half more year or less I will have no problem leaving my rig without risk.
My wife very often have to turn on music for him to listen while he eats.