My wife has never seen any speakers I have bought before they 'appear' in the house. That said, I do understand her tastes and our living arrangments, so I know I can't buy electrostats/planars, or other 'big' speakers, because I have no room for them. I know she prefers a darker wood, usually rosewood. My speakers are usually around 4 foot high, less than a foot wide. She would prefer smaller, (Bose cubes are invisible you know...lol), but I still manage to keep full range speakers.
Her other nit is seeing exposed tubes, she does not like this at all. So she was quite unhappy when she came home and saw my new Cary SLP-98P F1 preamp last week. She gets mad, she gets glad again. I don't complain about her hobbies.
In fact, the way I see it now, she can't complain at all. I was waiting for years for my children to grow up and leave the nest. I figured I'd take an old bedrooms and turn it into a man cave. LOL! I still have one at home, but it turns out that she snagged both bedrooms of the boys that moved out. One is now her changing room and the other is her scrap-booking room. So my system is still in the main living room. I don't complain, because it's a good room acoustically, but from where I sit, she can't complain about how anything looks either. Because it only sits in the living room because she's hogged all the other rooms. :)
Her other nit is seeing exposed tubes, she does not like this at all. So she was quite unhappy when she came home and saw my new Cary SLP-98P F1 preamp last week. She gets mad, she gets glad again. I don't complain about her hobbies.
In fact, the way I see it now, she can't complain at all. I was waiting for years for my children to grow up and leave the nest. I figured I'd take an old bedrooms and turn it into a man cave. LOL! I still have one at home, but it turns out that she snagged both bedrooms of the boys that moved out. One is now her changing room and the other is her scrap-booking room. So my system is still in the main living room. I don't complain, because it's a good room acoustically, but from where I sit, she can't complain about how anything looks either. Because it only sits in the living room because she's hogged all the other rooms. :)