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Kids, Dogs, and Speakers

We have 2 dogs (25 lbs and 35 lbs) who tear around the house and preschool grandchildren. I like the sound of my Spendor A4s, but they are very narrow and top-heavy, and we worry they could be unintentionally knocked over (mercifully, this hasn't happened yet).  We need speakers which are harder to knock over.  This is the room we spend the evening in, so we can't exclude kids or pups.

Our budget is $7k to, at a stretch, $15k. I'm considering the KEF Meta R11 meta, the Sonus Faber Olyimpica Nova 2 and 3, and the Spendor D7.2 (which are wider and have a lower centre of gravity than the A4s). I ruled out the Sonetto 8s and Dali Rubicon 8s because the lowest speaker is vulnerably close to the ground. I like the extra stability that the outrigger feet give the KEFs and the Sonus Fabers.

I need to find things that I can audition in the section of the East Coast from New York to Washington DC.

Do you have any recommendations for speakers that are harder to knock over?

Thanks!

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ghdprentice
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@saboros 

 

Do you do that often? Does it hurt? 😔 

saboros
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@ghdprentice  

Our big standard poodle did bump into the 1.7i and nothing happened.  And my wife did graze the LRS+ in our bedroom on her way to the bathroom in the middle of the night and except for being moved a bit, nothing happened.

But our cleaning person once knocked over a Harbeth C7.

 

 

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jnovak
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No joking but how about the idea of large bubble wrap covers that you could slip onto the speakers when not in use. If the cat took a liking to them (scratching), the breaking bubbles would be a deterrent. The kids would have to be taught to stay away. I'm thinking about an actual metal security curtain to go across the whole system. I need to relax as much as possible when four grandchildren are afoot

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tabl10s
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Bwahahaha. 

Put the dogs outside and listen when the children aren't over. 

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pindac
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A Solid Plinth purpose produced to expand the footprint dimension of a small footprint Cabinet Base, will offer a stability that the Speaker Alone will not offer.

The Idea of spending monies on a Plinth that serves only one purpose is one that can be looked into to further, to see if similar but alternative options are fitting.

There are Plinths that Expand on the Footprint and also offer a suspension platform for the Speaker, decoupling the energies being transferred and causing colouration.

I am a advocate of Speakers mounted on a suspension, and have been creating my own designs and been demo'd other methods, off which all are a substantial improvement for tidying up the sound produced.

The goal for a Speaker with a small footprint will be to workout which suspension Plinths are models enabling the Speaker to be fastened to the Base.

Additionally, there are simplistic options to be used, to add intermediate base that is coupled to the Suspension Plinth and not needing any modification to the Plinth. The intermediate base can also prepared to enable the Speaker to be fastened to it. 

The use of suspension as a method of Speaker Cabinet support  is one I very strongly recommend.

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