Need help for wife acceptance

I'm in the same boat, my amp is in the basement directly under the speakers. The set up is like this: I drilled a hole in the floor behind my rack where my preamp and source components live and dropped my 30' long Goertz Micropurl balanced interconnects down into the basement. I drilled holes in the 2x8 stringers in the basement ceiling and ran the interconnect to my BAT VK500 amp. My amp sits on a VERY sturdy homemade stand I built, directly below and between the speakers. Drilled holes in the floor behind my speakers and ran 10' runs of Transparent MusicWave Bi-Wire speaker cables (spades) from the amp up through the floor and attached to the binding posts on the speakers. In this set up, keep the speaker wires short, and use longer interconnects from preamp to amp. I never turn my amp off so it's not a problem for me, and obviously there's no equipment or wire clutter. Passes the WAF test with flying colours.