My wife is so uncool!

so I finally get this huge 1250 sq foot apt with a huge living room with wall to wall capeting unparallel walls and in the right dimension ratios. I start setting up my Infinity reference standars and my girlfriend starts shrieking nonnono can't we just use your little AR powered Partner speakers! Broke up with her the next day.

My wife doesn't mind when I buy stuff (of course I lie about the cost, I know she lies about the cost of all those shoes) but she is a pain when I want to listen to it.

Who isn't a pain when you want to listen? Probably everybody in the world is, especially if you're comparing a mole's worth of cables, get to a critical point, and then all of a sudden it's bedtime...

Everything has to be arranged and planned from the beginning. First I did a room addition for my music room, big room 18 feet by 35 feet with high ceiling. Then I split this room with the other half for the children music instuments (piano, flute, etc.) In my music room I wired with the largest power cable it will fit and double wall (with mdf particle board), thick carpet, etc. And then came the toy all tubes, one at a time. Now she can't even say a word, but nice sound that we both can enjoy. Over all I can put it, it is the strategy that matters. Get them involve in the process.

Actually, both of my wives have been pretty tolerant of my audio illness. My current wife obsesses a bit about money, so my expenditures worry her. We now play a little game where I buy a piece of equipment and install it, then wait to see how long it takes her to spot it (4 weeks on one item). The other ploy I've used is to wait until a special occasion, like Father's Day, and make up a really nice card on my PC which says she is giving me a new piece of gear. Last time, the card says she was giving me a new Sony WEGA flat screen TV. She's really good to me........