Actually, I was in the bathroom at the time the "incident" happened, or perhaps a change of clothing MAY have been appropriate!
Ok, what happened then, was; in the earlier days of my new 5.1 adventures, I had an ancient 1946 16mm movie projector remote speaker with an original 10" paper cone driver. I was running it off an old Akai amp that only had one channel operating that my oldest daughter had left in our attic.
It worked...
The receiver was in a cabinet about 8" off the floor.
Our youngest grand daughter, about two years old at the time, saw me controlling the volume with the master volume control and thought; when I was out of the room, to try it herself!
From the other end of the house it sounded as though a small pick-up truck had attempted to enter our livingroom at speed!!
Her older brother was into action within about two seconds and chopped the loud control; but not before a piece of paper 2" by 1/2" was deposited in the bottom of the antique 3/8" plywood cabinet.
It was sad; it buzzed,.... a lot, after that.
Two obvious things happened soon after:
I got a new 10" higher performance driver to replace the old paper full-range transducer,
and:
The receiver found a new home, up much higher, out of reach of little paws!!
Another advantage of having the electronics up farther from the floor? No more cerial and milk splattered on the receiver, and no more sticky fingerprints to have to scrub off, either!!
Ah yes; little ones can be fun!
Rich.
