stereo for someone special

I decided to take the plunge. The cd portion of my mom's sharper image stereo has been acting up and then for some reason my dad got her an i-pod. So I decided now was my chance to act and got her this Teac. Now I just need to find some speakers, it sounds pretty good driving a pair of Vandersteen 1's but she definitely won't want them. I'm thinking a single driver maybe from Omega. They head to Florida for most of January so I have some time plus I need to know where she's going to want to put it. I'll start a separate thread re: speakers but thought I would follow up here.

Cheers,
Wes

At the risk of generalizing; I don't know many women (actually, one) who enjoy what we affectionately call "critical listening" - that is, sitting down in front of two speakers and listening to music without any other distractions. Most of the women I know (wife, daughter, friends wives, etc) play music as background noise while doing other things. Seldom is their attention focused on the music, and when it is it always sounds good enough whether the source is a $20K system or a Wave Radio.

The one exception I know is my younger daughter, who is a music major in college and spins vinyl. She will sit in her listening chair in her room and listen to classical and opera recordings. But my recent atempts to upgrade her Nuforce Icon system to something better were rebuffed by the audiophile ego-shattering phrase "it's good enough, Dad!" She's definately not an audiophile... yet.

well I've since got her a bluray disc player instead and she loves it in combination with the flatscreen my dad got her. One splurge was the snakeskin covered Sony hdmi cable that I couldn't resist to connect up with. I did after all get new Nintendo technology when I was a wee young lad