My wife can hear anything abnormal/wrong @ much lower volume levels than I (especially in the HF's). She also loves music as much as I, but unfortunately after burning herself on a 300B tube (and damaging the tube in the process) she has not been using the system herself very much (even though I sold this particular amp a few months ago and have the other tube pieces out of the way). I am sorry that she burned herself (the power switch was on the back of the amp), but the tube was no big deal and she knows this (I sold the amp with two good sets of spare output tubes). Anyway, I think that I will again reconfigure the setup to make it even more user friendly and see if this works. On a funny side note she just discovered yesterday that her psychiatrist is an audiophile. I don't know how it came up in the session, but the conversation drifted toward questions about our gear. I think that I will tag along to the next session. LOL.
Experiences with your "Better Halves"
MY girlfriend and I recently went to an audio store just to burn some time before dinner with friends. We played some of our salsa and R&B CDs in a musical fidelity (Nuvista amp+ some other MF components) with B&W CDM9 speakers. When the store manager asked for our opinion she stated "the highs are a little rough, separation was superb, imaging was good, the bass was very clear although a bit forward probably because of the room" - and this was all in one breath. Needless to say I was impressed!! She had only listened to my rambles after listening sessions at friends and audio stores. It is apparent that she has very gifted hearing ability even though power ratings, capacitance or impedance matching are the equivalent of words found in a Russian Restaurant menu to her. I am interested in learning about your experiences as couples, this has certainly been quite an awakening to me.