Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase

Absolutely brilliant! Man... you guys are good... I have a feeling this could be the most important thread at the GON to date!

Not re-married yet (waiting till after speaker upgrade)
but with all the new material from you seasoned pro's
I will be set for years!

Gosh I love this place :-)

It could be very interesting to conduct another survey, say, in 5 years just see if any of us are still staying married.

actually, i've been married only 1 yr and haven't had to lie about it once.

sure, explaining a $1k power conditioner took some work and creative financing on my part (i.e. selling other audio equip), but even that went over w/o a shrug.

find a wife that likes your hobbies.

then again, catch me if / after i upgrade speakers (which will likely cost as much as her car, 3 vacations, all new livign room furniture...you get the idea). ---may be some embellishments on that transaction (or at a min, make it affordable: "its only $50 a week for a couple weeks"---yeah, like 150.

rhyno

I recently picked up some cat toys (little balls with a bunch of rubber tentacles sticking out of them) that my wife assumed were for the new kitten to play with.

The truth of the matter is that I intend on tacking them to the inside corners of our soon to be installed single driver speaker cabinets.

Although I am not making audio purchases @ the current time (due to budget constraints) money had nothing to do with the deception (they were cheap). I just did not want her telling our friends/guests that I had placed cat balls in the speakers.

Wow what A topic.....but yes I have. When I buy something that I surely know that my superior half will resent, I will ask the retailer for a second (bogus )receipt, so if she questions me I have the lesser of the two receipts to show her.

But how many of you out there have asked her if she minds if you bought {BLANK} and she says she doesnt care, only at a later date when she is mad at you, that she has has the nerve to spout " You had to buy {BLANK} didnt you". Are wifes are made from the same mold?