Experiences with your "Better Halves"

My wife is the same way too, it's great to have neutral opinion handy. She doen't care one iota about any of the tech-terms or science (and pseudo-science...) behind this madness. But she will tell me if she thinks it sounds better or not.

It was her remarks that got me going down this audio path again.

some highlights:

She noticed a change in the sound for the better, and all I'd done was change speaker cables. She had no idea I'd done anyhting. Before I had made the change, she said it sound as if it was 'struggling.' We'd moved into a new house few months before and I had the 'better' cables pacdked away and had not bothered to change them.

She noticed when I changed a PC (at the time, I doubted that PC's made any difference, and was ready to put off what I'd heard as self-fulfilling pyschosis), as well as when I changed a digital IC ('hey, that sounds smoother').

She also picked up on what turned out to be a fuse going bad inside one of our amps two days before it became so clear even I noticed it...

KP

My wife really got into the whole 'sound room' idea, she painted the room herself, picked up some cool lights (some disco light, a really neat multi color light that spins to the music, etc.), curtains, even put foam between the curtains and the window!
We have a mega-changer, and I hooked it up to the S-link-e, and through the computer in our computer room, we can control the tunes.

We take turns adding songs to the playlist, or we'll pick music we think the other will like, or we'll play songs for each other, or we'll select songs that we think are the other's favorites. We save the playlist, and other time we'll reload old playlists and relax.

It's really a blast, this started as my crazy little game but she loves it as much as I do now. It's become a legitimate home improvement. I can't begin to tell you guys how great it is. We'll sometimes go through 6 or even 8 hours of music at a time.

Oh, and the convertible sofa bed... ooo baby...

KP