childproofing rear speakers

My brother had the ultimate cure: He bought wall mount martin logans with metal grilles and in wall wiring. I'm still waiting for his kids to put pencils through the grill holes...

Hi Hatari:

Regarding those Verity's, just put them in the flight cases and send them to me for the next six or so years. I'll keep them in my dedicated listening room (restricted access) and make sure the drivers get daily exercise.

If that won't work for you, then I'm out of ideas! In my case, my stand mounted/child resistant CDMs are my front speakers so I didn't have a separate protocol for floorstanders.

My dedicated listening room is on a separate floor, and the gate we used to keep our twins from tumbling down the stairs also kept them away from my main system's Maggies.

I will say that while my daughter never showed much interest in my speakers, the twin boys were incessantly drawn to them--as if the driver magnets were attracting them! In reality, I think the idea that an inanimate object could emanate sound was fascinating--even today (at six years old), they will frequently put their ear up to the grill to localize the sound. But it used to be their little fingers that did the probing, so protection is definitely necessary.

I should also mention that I lost one Benz and two Clearaudios (broken cantilevers) to them, but given the choice between some repair/replacement cost and closeting the gear, I chose the risk (and cost). Now we're past that phase and my kids love music of all kinds, which was the objective I was going for. I hope their lives will be richer as a result, even if I'm a bit financially poorer for the experience.

thanks for all the ideas everyone. i will go ahead and wall mount the speakers, haven't decided whether regular shelves or one of those bracket mounts for a tv. i appreciate the help. -dave

Boys... don't care what the nurture folks say, they're definitely different by nature! My little guy changed from an angel to a rambunctious little one in two weeks. There's trouble written all over him - and I love it.

We are of the same mentality on sharing the music for sure. Pass on the love of music - it's got to be a good thing. Good thing the Verity bass unit is backward facing, that will throw him off (for a few hours).

Cheers