Is it safe to place a center channel speaker on top of my Tivo?

[loup garou]

I haven't been able to find a post regarding this on any HT forums or Tivo Discussion boards...

Is it safe to place a shielded center channel speaker on top of a Tivo? It's a brand new Onkyo center channel from the SKSHT500 5.1 set. Is there any way it would screw up the drive in the Tivo?

 

[her209]

Where else could you put it?

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: her209
Where else could you put it?

Well, it's on the floor now...

 

[Pepsi90919]

tivo's have hard drives right? but if the thing is shielded then i guess you'll be ok..

 

[Kelemvor]

I don't know why it wouldn't be ok.... Go for it. If it doesn't work right, then let us know so no one else tries it.

 

[iwearnosox]

Yes, it's fine.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I don't know why it wouldn't be ok.... Go for it. If it doesn't work right, then let us know so no one else tries it.

I have 4 tivos in my house, I am the tivo god.

On a side note, don't put your DSL modem near other devices, that's another story...

 

[Shawn]

hard drive + big magnet = bad

 

[yellowperil]

I have the same speaker set (for sale below, BTW ) and I don't think it will harm the TiVo or vice versa.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: iloveme2
hard drive + big magnet = bad

Magnetically shielded big magnet = fine.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Yes, it's fine.

Well, it's been sitting up there for the past hour and a half or so with no problems! Thanks.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Yes, it's fine.

Well, it's been sitting up there for the past hour and a half or so with no problems! Thanks.

Cool. Just remember, flames = bad. Keep plenty of beer handy to extinguish them just in case.

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: iloveme2
hard drive + big magnet = bad

big magnet = inside hard drive.

you need a REALLY big magnet, and nothing you can get as a private resident will suffice to wipe your hard drive.

I have one of those rare earth magnets from a hard drive in my hand right now, I've been playing with it for awhile. in the hard drive, it sits about 1-1.5cm away from the edges of the platters.