Wife trouble

I have a room in the basement too. We refinished it and my wife told me that my JBL L7s were too ugly for the new space. So I bought a big, beautiful pair of 4' tall rbh floorstanders in a nice maple. She hasn't complained about any of my other gear...

All joking aside, I like being in the basement. I can put up acoustic panels and do weird scheiße that even I wouldn't want to do upstairs. It's nice to have a room optimized for an audio aesthetic, but I prefer my main floor to be optimised for a visual aesthetic.

Stand your ground , if your wife can not(will not) understand your needs do not bend to her tyranny !

I think the biggest problem is that you feel a need to get approval for  your purchases.
She is not your mom.

Separate bank accounts has served both of us extremely well.

Her new shoes makes about as much sense to me as my new DAC makes to her.

I had a bipolar wife!

How do we know you aren't mca's wife pretending to be you to ask this question?

Seriously, I love the replies on threads like this.

There are some good ideas in here. But my question is do you have your own office room that can be your music room? It sounds like you don't. In all honesty, if you are wanting to have FUN with audio, as in buying gear, and playing around with your setup, you need to know that will never happen in a common space, like a living room.