It's about to get ugly (literally)

Posted by: feeling_zen on 11 November 2018

Three years of kids in a small flat and trying to stubbornly avoid any compromises on the hifi front is proving futile.

My PMC Twenty5.23 are now markedly more beaten up than the pair they replaced (damaged in shipping) and the kids love mucking about in the space between them.

To reduce collisions by 50% (and the number of spikes they can reach and unscrew - not a kid friendly design there) I've come to the conclusion that commiting a cardinal hifi sin is called for. My carefully sutuated off to one side racks are going to have to move between the speakers to fill the void snugly. I hate that I'm doing this. Three racks tight between speakers look awful in my head and it is a big hifi no no. But for the next couple years, it's gotta be done. 

I worry about how it will look as well as how it will sound. First world problems and all.

The point I'm making us there is no eascape (absolutely none) from the impact of kids. Nothing is in my control anymore.

Posted on: 13 November 2018 by Christopher_M
feeling_zen posted:

I find in our place, we have taken zero child proofing precautions for most everything and the kids are fine. Conversely, other people's kids who always live in highly child proofed homes (we're talking about all table edges covered in foam and stuff like that) always just about kill themselves in our flat.

As an aside, that interests me. Seems to validate risk compensation theory that I heard about in the early 90s.

Posted on: 13 November 2018 by feeling_zen
Christopher_M posted:
feeling_zen posted:

I find in our place, we have taken zero child proofing precautions for most everything and the kids are fine. Conversely, other people's kids who always live in highly child proofed homes (we're talking about all table edges covered in foam and stuff like that) always just about kill themselves in our flat.

As an aside, that interests me. Seems to validate risk compensation theory that I heard about in the early 90s.

Is that the same theory that says Volvo drivers have more accidents because they think they're in a tank?

... Because I believe that!

Posted on: 13 November 2018 by Christopher_M
feeling_zen posted:
Christopher_M posted:
feeling_zen posted:

I find in our place, we have taken zero child proofing precautions for most everything and the kids are fine. Conversely, other people's kids who always live in highly child proofed homes (we're talking about all table edges covered in foam and stuff like that) always just about kill themselves in our flat.

As an aside, that interests me. Seems to validate risk compensation theory that I heard about in the early 90s.

Is that the same theory that says Volvo drivers have more accidents because they think they're in a tank?

... Because I believe that!

Broadly, yes.

Posted on: 14 November 2018 by Ardbeg10y

FZ,

Here you see how we deal with it. 2x B&W CM5's, an heavy telly made of aluminium & glass screen (no plastic). Below the table the AV2 and its deputy a Nait 5 in poweramp modus. You can spot my eldest kids game console there as well and a mac-mini.

It is mostly switched on. Either for kids in the early morning, photo shows during daytime, and for me the Berliner Philharmoniker in the evening.

The drums below the table contain 20 meters of Duplo tracks for the train.

It all goes well together, but I consider to replace the loudspeakers by good on-wall loudspeakers with steel grills.

 

This was the result of a Saturday afternoon bringing the kids interests with mine together - it never sounded so good:

We don't have foam on tablecorners, stairgates etc. I even let my now 5 year old using my dSLR. If it breaks, well then a new or pre-loved one.