Have you turned your loved ones into audiophiles

I believe everyone thinks I'm touched for spending what I have on the system. Why spend all of that money on a Porsche when you can drive a Fiat 500, right?

I love those women at the audio shows. You know the ones. They sit there next to their man all Stepford like, pretending to be interested.
...Because its important to spend time together, and he's damn sure not going to join her for a pilates class.
No thank you. I'll take my strong, self-opinionated wife over some emotional leach ANY day! I have to fight her for every exorbitantly priced cable in my system; but SHE'S REAL!
Its that whole predisposition thing. I thought we (my audio cohort and I) had a "fish" recently; but as our cigars were getting short out on the back patio (OK, here I could use a Stepford wife. It would be nice to smoke and listen), and I suggested we go back inside for a spinning of Neil Young, our friend looked at his watch. I knew right then he was a lost cause.
Right from the start you had to drag me away from your system! I got turned by my neighbor when I was in high school. Some kids liked to stop at car dealerships on their way home, or the Harley dealer. I drooled on audio equipment I couldn't afford.
And, like most of you, I did it alone.

My 20 year old Son has started to show a little interest in vinyl. Not to long ago he asked me to set up one of my tt's for him. So I let him have my Technics SL-10 with a Bellari VP130 phono preamp. It's connected to his Yamaha packaged Receiver/CD player table top unit. He can use any of my LP's or CD's because he treats them with respect.

My wife is another story. All she ever says is "That's nice dear" or the ever popular "How much this time"

Good Luck

Interested responses. So it seems for most, it is not possible to turn the loved ones into audiophiles. But do you most of you have spouses and all that at least accept your hobby? I know it is much more than a hobby.

My wife isn't technically oriented, but she enjoys listening with me, and she appreciates the sound quality, the music, and the physical appearance of the equipment. She is not interested in frequent and endless changes of equipment in search of some presumed sonic nirvana, or that will result in benefit that is miniscule in relation to either the cost or the amount of time required for experimentation and optimization. For that matter, neither am I.

Regards,
-- Al

And I have been asking myself, "have I shared the pleasure and joy I derive from music with my loved ones?"
The answer I get, "not so much with my loved ones, but definitely with strangers." (Keeps me a good mood)