How Cool Is My Wife!

Michael--Thanks. Gary--There is hope right now! Testsp--Looks like you're ahead of Rfenol when it come to taking over the house. What a guy! No, what a wife! Enjoyable thread, guys.

Just rummaged through the latest comments and caught Rsuminby's about footrubs and wine on the couch during a listening session. I've always found a bit of this and sessions other than listening quickly follow.

My s.o. has got to be one of the best. We greatly enjoy our system, but a year-and-a-half ago increasing equipment space constraints dictated our transport-dac duo had to go, in favor of one box. After lengthy auditions of CD players, we decided on the Accuphase DP55. Jo said, "I'll buy it for us." We also talked about new speakers down the road and decided on the Avalon Arcus. Last fall she bought them as "thanks" for helping make her home-based biz a success. I don't think it gets much better than that. Downside: new amp and preamp come out of my pocket. Okay, okay, fair's fair. Kolson, if you had kept the relationship going, you might have ended up with a complete system! Eldragon, Crt and Jazzzman, maybe Kolson's ex is available. Barring that, our sympathy and support. Michael, bring the sushi and a good bottle of saki over to our place and we'll crank the gain. And bring your wife, Jo wants her sushi recipes. Gary and Garfish have a good thing going with the listening rooms, but Rfenol's got the best deal--he and his wife can move into the garage, turn the whole house into a listening room, have his wife completely upgrade their system, and cater a great listening party from the adjacent kitchen. Ditto Garfish, a good thread.

While my wife, a musicholic like myself, is a heavy contributor to our system with both bucks and comment, she claims it's basically "a guy thing"--she doesn't care how many ohms dance on the head of a resistor. She just wants to hear music reproduced in the best way possible for the budget we allow. Can't ask for more than that.