best wife friendly monitor?

Another vote for the Caravelle monitors.

I would go for the Tylers (no bias, of course). ;-)

The PCS is also a good speaker... I think either of the two would work well.

---Dave

Whoa.. with all due respect, I'd be carefull about calling the B&W 805 series - 'wife' friendly. I've been in showrooms and actually heard comments like, "I'll be damned if that's going in our living room", and "it looks like a miners light is staring at me".. If you chose B&W, I'd highly recommend not surprising your wife with them.. Don't think you'll get much complaint though with Dynaudios birdseye maple-sonically or esthetically .. good luck!

How about Harbeth compact 7s. They're a bit bigger than monitors but they look beautifully retro. and sound great.

In order to accomodate my wife's esthetics and the windows behind my speakers, I had Ty of www.tyleracoustics.com custom build a Linbrook three way 9"wide X 35" tall with a full grill covering the port. I sent him a picture of our cherry furniture and he matched the speaker finish to it perfectly. (see my system pictures)

Now I have some great sounding and looking speakers that meet both my wife's visual and my auditory esthetics.

Talk to Ty, he's very acomodating and his custom rates are very reasonable.