In order to get into this house me and my fiancee are looking to buy, i had the sell the HT rig i had been playing around with for the past 7 years. The rig was mine before we met, she knows how much i liked playing with it, so to give it up in order for us to get a new house gives me major leverage. She feels somewhat guilty that i had to sell it, but promised i could build it bigger and better.
She is totally into my buiding a dedicated home theater for the new house in the basement, and she is also going to let me have the loft for my 2 channel setup, and she doesent seem to care too much that every part of my 2 channel rig is planned to be replaced.
the way i figure it, i better get it upgraded to where im happy before that final "I do". so i got about a year.
i also told her my stereo will never cost more than her car.
in a few years i might have to upgrade her Saturn to a Jaguar, then by myself some Mark Levinson gear.