Access/Use Restrictions-Listening Room


As I was in the listening room, cleaning this morning, I thought of this idea for a thread.

Do you have any restricted access/use rules for your listening room?

We have only ONE *no house cleaners*

And before you get too huffy, like we're rich or something and have FiFi, the upstairs maid here everyday…. We're not and we don't, even though my husband would probably be open to that idea. :-)

We have them come in 2X/month to do the heavy cleaning - floors, baths, ovens, etc. It's well worth the few bucks they charge to have that time back in our busy lives.

*Tip for you husbands - would make a most excellent present to your wife. (and do it for no reason, don't wait for a birthday or anything). Guaranteed to get lots of mileage out of that one.*

Anyway, we made that decision when they were here once (I was working at home that day) and they bumped one of the Apogee Stages, knocking it off the stand flat on it's face - WHAM!) In the process, yanking the amp off the stand (that IC just made it) and bending one of the posts. As she stood there, thinking no big deal, I was freaking out! Luckily, no harm done. But lesson learned; these folks have no clue about how to behave around expensive gear and the thought of a vacuum cleaner bumping the speakers THEN trying to put it back so no one would know…… we come home, turn it on - POOF !

So……….guess who gets to clean it? At least we know everything will be ok afterwards.
angela100
Great thread
After getting nicks on the bottom of my speakers from the vacuum cleaner banging into them, I drew the line.
My wife.. When she drives me up the wall with her pointless blath,I enter my listening room and crack open a cold one.
When each of my kids reached the age of 12, I taught them to safely use and respect firearms, but I still never let them anywhere near my ET II Tone Arm.
Hey, David, did the steaks and *pearl onions* work? and Kelly, your "rules" are great! Ever get any *good wine or the two-fer-one deal* out of the contrivance?(does that word work? I am trying to increase my vocabulary)
Angela: I went to the market and the price of rib-eyes was at a whopping $9/LB. I regrouped and made a nice repast of buttermilk biscuits with white sauce and chipped beef. This was followed by buckwheat pancakes the following night and a whole roasted chicken (74 cents/LB) -w- creamed spinach (no pearl onions) the night following that one. Tonight it will be grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup. My wife and myself spent years in the high end food industry and we both really do appreciate "normal" food because this. The comfort food is not only working (I just made an offer on a pair of Target one piece speaker stands -w- my wife's approval) but it is saving enough money to actually pay for the new gear without dipping into the savings. Cooking "pheasant" food (what I call my style) was also one of my most pleasant pastimes until a year or so ago and it's nice to get back into the swing of things. I do good greens (substitute burnt red onion for pork/smoked turkey) and mac and cheese (-w- egg whites) as well. We once spent an entire two week vacation sampling biscuits and gravy up and down the West coast at every place imaginable (the best was at a truck stop in the high desert), which is why I started with them as the first "feast." If I ever decide to really splurge with this new food vehicle I will have clam chowder shipped down from the Splash in Pismo Beach, CA, which is better than any that I have ever made. So Sam, if your reading this, there's more to cinching up the old belt than Pasta. Email for recipes-:)