CDX2 drawer and baby

Klout10 posted:

Why not teach your kids that your hifi is something that they should not touch? I've had two small children when I owned a CD5X and some large floorstanding speakers ... it's doable 

Absolutely, it is doable with your own child -- but I do get rather stressed when friends visit with their little ones... It helps if you tell the parents that a pair of speakers is about 3K...Then it's not only you who is stressed, and parents do some parenting... 

Some time ago I also got some support from our 4-year old son -- he put his biggest dinosaur (presumably for protection) in front of the hifi when we had very young vistors. I should have taken a picture...

Hungryhalibut posted:

You need a fire guard. That’s what we used. 

Same here. Once I changed my speaker cables from ruby red colored to black ones, my son immediately lost interest. Putting things on high shelves may work with the really young ones, it can make matters worse in the long run. Once your children can pull themselves up, they will try to reach everything that is at the limit of their range. Ours surely did just that. Everything at 1 meter from the floor was much more interesting than what was at 50 cm.

The best deterrent would be  a set of handcuffs and a large, extremely heavy ball and chain, the parents may object but it  should do the trick... 

Many years ago I invited my boss and his family for dinner, his youngest went walkabout and was found in my office/listening room stood on top of my record deck...

After quickly removing him and plonking him outside my room, my boss's wife, uttered the words ' he was only expressing himself'  'no need to over-react'...

Foolishly I was expecting an apology.... it never came...

A useful deterrent could be to not use the little puck when playing a cd when the little one is let loose.  Opening that drawer with a cd spinning out in said direction will quickly learn it.

For all you young Naimees, try having the snip....

Stu

Another option I'm thinking often is to swap from my CDX2.2 to the NDX in a such way I have not to deal with CDs anymore and it is more suitable to be baby proof but I do not know what expect in terms of sound quality from this change and unfortunately I cannot have the possibility to listen to the NDX....but this is another story 

My CDX2 is about 16 years old. My son is 12. A firm “no” and physically picking him up and removing him with a stern look really was all it took. Always felt it was more at risk from my mother (wine glass on top of it every time) and other visitors. Sorted that by training a 4 year old to keep visitors away from the speakers. He especially liked telling other young people that any damage would cost them about a thousand years of pocket money. I especially enjoyed when, forced to vacate for a female only party, he told all said ladies “... and no fighting!”

wenger2015 posted:

.....stood on top of my record deck... 

That's such a weird english expression. Most other people would say "standing"

winkyincanada posted:

wenger2015 posted:

.....stood on top of my record deck... 

That's such a weird english expression. Most other people would say "standing"

I suspect that most people in Northern Ireland, and probably much of Scotland would be firmly in the "stood" camp. 

If a need for emphasis was felt we could go with "the kid was stood standing there on my record deck".

Willy.

winkyincanada posted:

wenger2015 posted:

.....stood on top of my record deck... 

That's such a weird english expression. Most other people would say "standing"

I think in the Queen's version of English, "stood" implies , to an extent at least, passiveness, i.e. It was put there and "standing" implies choice i.e. The wine glass made a conscious decision to be in that place. So I too would say "stood" but I doubt that many people would question either - life is too short!

But I might ask my English graduate daughter who is a real pedant, known to correct my positioning of apostrophes in text messages even. I think she might prefer "placed" to stood or standing.

best

David

The small child in question, placed himself, stood, climbed up, pole vaulted, whatever.... and was standing on my record deck....

To be fair, in line with health and safety , I had no warning signs up to the contrary,  I had no red and white tape forming a barrier.....

And the little 'darling' was only trying to express himself.... 

On reflection , I would have liked the opportunity to express myself..............but decided it was best not to go their....

Apologies for coming late to this one, but a friend with a CD5X and four young, sticky and inquisitive hands in the house has taken to using a thin buckled webbing strap, like this one:

He's placed it all the way around the CD player from front to back so it holds the door closed. He can then release it and rebuckle it fairly quickly when it needs to - something that would be less true if using the transit bolt for example.

Cannot comment on the effect on SQ. I'm sure different colours, webbing material and quality of material could all be experimented with if he had the time which, having small children, of course, he doesn't.

My two are now 14 and 12 and we never (amazingly) had the biscuit/pizza/similar in the CD drawer. Our eldest did have fun one day when she was much younger and discovered that the slot-loading player in the car would continue to accept CDs even when one was already loaded. I think she fed eight in there before I found her.

Mark