So, my mom was visiting and she was sitting in a chair adjacent to my left front 803D speaker. (about a foot away). My 3 yr old son climbed up onto her lap and I was sitting across the room with my 1 yr old daughter on my lap.
We were chatting when I noticed that my son was now sitting on the arm of the chair and was playing around pushing backwards with his feet against my mom's arm.
That's when I noticed my speaker starting to move. It's kinda funny how the mind works because at first I couldn't comprehend what was happening and by the time the brain synapses started firing and I realized he had extended out far enough that his back was pushing against the speaker it already was SLOWLY starting to tip sideways.
My immediate impulse was to dive towards the speaker but first I had to put my daughter down. It seemed like everything was happening in slow motion as I watched the speaker falling like a tree that had been chopped down in the forest. I got to it just a half a second too late.
My living room is carpeted except for a small area of tile in front of the fireplace.....I'm sure you can guess where the speaker landed. When it hit the tile it sounded like a gunshot going off---very loud. The cover came off the tweeter and flew across the room.
Then there was a brief moment of silence before there was a hideously mournful cry of anguish that I eventually realized was coming out of me.
Epilogue:
Well, there is now a narrow chip out of the wood about 2 inches long on the top of the speaker right where the seam meets the right side. Other than that, amazingly, it seems to be ok. Even the diamond tweeter, which I was sure would be shattered, was fine. Whew!
I'm sure there's a moral to the story but right now my nerves are too jittery to think of it. :E
We were chatting when I noticed that my son was now sitting on the arm of the chair and was playing around pushing backwards with his feet against my mom's arm.
That's when I noticed my speaker starting to move. It's kinda funny how the mind works because at first I couldn't comprehend what was happening and by the time the brain synapses started firing and I realized he had extended out far enough that his back was pushing against the speaker it already was SLOWLY starting to tip sideways.
My immediate impulse was to dive towards the speaker but first I had to put my daughter down. It seemed like everything was happening in slow motion as I watched the speaker falling like a tree that had been chopped down in the forest. I got to it just a half a second too late.
My living room is carpeted except for a small area of tile in front of the fireplace.....I'm sure you can guess where the speaker landed. When it hit the tile it sounded like a gunshot going off---very loud. The cover came off the tweeter and flew across the room.
Then there was a brief moment of silence before there was a hideously mournful cry of anguish that I eventually realized was coming out of me.
Epilogue:
Well, there is now a narrow chip out of the wood about 2 inches long on the top of the speaker right where the seam meets the right side. Other than that, amazingly, it seems to be ok. Even the diamond tweeter, which I was sure would be shattered, was fine. Whew!
I'm sure there's a moral to the story but right now my nerves are too jittery to think of it. :E
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