Need help for wife acceptance

Tough spot you're in. Try & get your wife involved with listening to the music, even if it's something you don't care for. This could serve as a segue so you can explain how the positioning of the amps will contribute to a more musically sounding system & you would really like her blessings regarding this because you love her & when you play certain songs it reminds you how you guys got together, how you feel about her now, etc. etc.

If that doesn't work you could try for a compromise regarding something she wants to do, whatever that is.

Good luck.

I'm in the same boat, my amp is in the basement directly under the speakers. The set up is like this: I drilled a hole in the floor behind my rack where my preamp and source components live and dropped my 30' long Goertz Micropurl balanced interconnects down into the basement. I drilled holes in the 2x8 stringers in the basement ceiling and ran the interconnect to my BAT VK500 amp. My amp sits on a VERY sturdy homemade stand I built, directly below and between the speakers. Drilled holes in the floor behind my speakers and ran 10' runs of Transparent MusicWave Bi-Wire speaker cables (spades) from the amp up through the floor and attached to the binding posts on the speakers. In this set up, keep the speaker wires short, and use longer interconnects from preamp to amp. I never turn my amp off so it's not a problem for me, and obviously there's no equipment or wire clutter. Passes the WAF test with flying colours.

You have two solutions:
1)- Put poweramps under Avalon stands
2)- look for a new wife!
...and 3) say her "Honey, listen your favourite song with ML in their position; a pity sell these babies!
Good luck!

BUY her a ROLEX and see what happens.It worked with me,and I have a lot of audio gear laying around the house.CHEERS.

Try hiding the wife, instead! Happy Tunes!