Buy your wife a used receiver and speakers or something. If you can't put something together that is acceptable for television watching with your wife, you should be ashamed. A shrink might be able to cure you of your OCD enough to allow you to succumb to your psychosis of not being able to accept that there is another problem driving it. You don't have to continually look for faults in a system, especially to the point that it curtails sharing an experience with a loved one.
My Television plays into a Rotel pre-amp tuner I bought of Craigslist for $30, including shipping, using an old Bryston amp. At first, the pre-amp sounded to terrible that I was going to trash it, but I needed the remote and tone controls. It plays through my 41 year old, stand mount B&W two and a half ways, and has burned in very nicely, i.e. My ears and brain have adapted to hear its good qualities over the bad. My bedroom TV has smaller stand mount B&W's powered by an entry level Audire Legato pushing an Adcom 60 wpc amp ($50, Craigslist), which was also very disappointing, at first. I can always go the the good system to really enjoy music, but I am not psychotic about being the necessity of being a tweaky nut case who is so terribly insecure that he cannot fathom listening anything that is less than perfect.Give this to your wife, along with a used receiver, etc, and speakers.
