Wife approval factor?

WAF factor is a serious as it gets... so glad Accorddude's Mom like's his speakers. And getting a smooch from the GF is great (of course when your dating so much is easy to do if there might be a ring in sight) but us married people have extreamly serious things to be concerned with in our relationships. Like keeping our spouses saying yes in our quest to acheive sonic nirvana. But we can all take a certain amount of pride doing a good job at tuning our rooms AND our spouses at the same time! It always amazes me how I can come up with a really, really great idea only to find out I the biggest dummy this side of Jupiter for suggesting a plant might move a few feet to the left. Alas... I relish a challenge and keeping my darling feeling loved and cherished is what's important.

Well put sailfishben.

Chuck

An amusing little thread, but with some real substance. I love hearing the macho stuff; 'How come their wives have anything to say about it?' Yeah, right; no community property laws in your state, big guy?

Seriously, working with WAF hasn't been a bad thing for me in my shared den/office. I ended up with 'cute' speakers, the Reference 3a Dulcets, and the Naim Nait 5i & CD5x. Frankly, the music sounds better in the small room than it did with more massive speakers and amps I had in there, and you don't feel crowded. There can be audiophile virtue in minimizing...

On the amusing side I actually did this one. Bought a new and better silver amp to replace the the older silver amp. Mumbled something about getting my old amp back from repairs and it was fast and free. Still got the old one in a box in the closet. It all sounds and looked the same to her. Heh Heh!

My fiance and I are not getting married for another month, so before we merge finances, I bought a sweet pair of Meadowlark Blue Heron 2's . Her comment upon seeing them in the living room (the only room I have total control of in the house) was that they were disgusting, and what is my problem. Of course, she thought that the Cayin TA 30 amp was ugly, and she thinks her Bose lifestyle system sounds as good. She was grumpy when these comments were made, and within an hour, she was over it, and hitting on me. The way things blow over with her is one of the big reasons we will be married in a month in Bermuda.