She's on to me

if you were serious, I'd check with Dr Phil...Me? If I tried that with my wife, I'd have just halved the joy from the get-go..can't relate to your experience and I hope I never do...."she's getting smart?" Not really. When she dumps you: that'll be smart...

well at least she said "do we..."This indicates a willingness to be a part of your hobby. I used to upgrade with the same brand so it looked the same. You realize of course you will get caught. Women are just more observant than us.
In the future you just have to budget to give her an equal amount of money for her hobby.

I guess I am lucky that my wife accepts my hobby, and trusts that I will not put us in any financial harm acquiring gear. I always speak with her prior to making a purchase and usually am trading off new gear with some items I have sold so the financial impact is not great, if any at all. I recenty sold some items and picked up a Cary SLP-2002 pre, and last evening she said "Ok, I have to admit that the stereo sounds better with that new thing you bought". I would much rather it this way than worrying if she will notice that something has changed, and worse having to lie about it.

What happened to the TAD 150?
Love your humor Ecruz, isn't this the situation for most of us.... :-)
Hope all is well,
Arni

My wife knows about everything I buy, I think it is only fair as I don't want her buying Blahniks or whatever the hell those outrageously priced shoes are behind my back and not telling me...food for thought there...besides, usually you can make her happy too if she has any interest at all in music. I went the Squeezebox route and set them up around the house on our wireless network, loaded her music on the server, and programmed a harmony universal remote to control all the gear around the house, she is quite excited as she can have her music in any room and doesn't have to go through the ritual of turning everything on.