You neglected to budget a bribe for your wife when buying an expensive toy for yourself? You told her the truth about the real cost of stereo gear? For pity's sake, man, keep quiet about cables and NOS tubes, or you'll completely blow it. And she won't.
You Still Need, What??
I had told my wife I was going to buy a turntable and have been buying vinyl for the last 6 months. Well, about a week ago I bought the table, a VPI Super scoutmaster.
I got the tt home and my wife said ,"It will be nice that you can finally play your albums" I looked at here and said I still need a phono stage and cartridge. She couldn't beleive it. Not to mention the record cleaning machine, stylus pressure guage , etc.
When she was asking the price of the cartridge(diamond needle)she felt that would be better spent for a new shiny sparkly for her finger.
Anyone else with a similar experience with the significant other not relizing all that is required for a vinyl system.