New house, wife reveals she hates my Maggies- looking for stand mount speaker suggestions


Just closed on a new house and as we were walking through and discussing furniture, my wife revealed she has always hated my Maggies and wants them not to make the move.  I have had a semi-dedicated music room, so they were kind of out of sight at our old place, so she never complained.  So a bad news but good news (new speakers!) situation.

Present set up is near field, room perhaps 10x10,but partially open, angled ceilings for some pretty good acoustics. Should be able to set up similar size near field space in new home.

Amp is Primaluna HP with 8xEL34, Conrad Johnson ET7 tube preamp, PS Audio Direct stream DAC and Naim Uniti digital ripper/hard drive.  I listen to lots of different music, but always come back to acoustic guitar or piano with female or male vocalists, or acoustic jazz.  Big soundstage, vocal warmth and detail (guitar strings plucking) are what I enjoy.

My Wife liked (the looks of) my old Rogers LS3/5a back in the day, or my Reference 3a Royal Masters.  So I figure I will be looking for a stand mount monitor.  But my budget is $5-10k, used or new, so I suspect I can do better than the LS3/5a.

i have always loved the Joseph Audio Pulsars, but you never see them used and the new graphine ones are out of my price range. Looking for other ideas:  Sonus Faber are easy to look at, but I have never listened to their monitors.  The monitor versions of Raidho and Focals are ugly enough to fail the WAF test.

so help me out here- what should I consider?

meiatflask

The real reason so many wives hate their husband’s sound system is that they want the man’s attention focussed on them. This is the central issue. It will never be admitted but that is it. The never admitting stems from the always never admitted goal that the man serves the woman’s interest and never vica versa. The woman is sensible enough to understand that to break a man’s spirit is to drive him away. So to preserve the fantasy that he is important, the woman plays The Game that the man is the ’driver of the chariot’. No he has the reins in his hands. The driver of the chariot is the one saying ’go this way’, ’turn here’, ’get rid of those maggies’, 'I don't like that friend of yours','No you're not doing that anymore'.

Think you are driving the chariot? Attempt to take over the role of who calls the shots. Try it! Then duck. Here’s comes the fall out. Happy Wife Happy Life. Translation: The Wife calls the shots. Happy Wife. Happy Life: The man acquiesces.

Some women are very liberal with their husbands. They don't want a puppet. A fortunate man marries that type of woman. The unfortunate ones get Happy Wife Happy Life and 'Get rid of the Maggies'.

@theophile ”…the chariot driver…”

Well done on calling this one out. I have often heard women say (more often to other women) “Well I’ve gone and said it now!”

theophile had the guts and “gone and said it now” l believe many are thinking this already on this discussion. With this often sited scenario, are you the driver, or do you accept a back seat driver?

l don’t think any man would pass a driving test with the back seat driver sitting in the car at the same time telling him what to do.

Open question

The talked about husband/wife hi-fi/new home harmony/quandary.

Lots of debates on future/past conundrums.

 

l was wondering if anyone remembers the Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner 1989 film “The War of the Roses” ?

This has just been remade in the UK under the title of ‘The Roses”

Yes we know feature films can be just like soap operas, fictional and not to be taken seriously…. but l can’t help wondering if these two films imitate some actual real life cases in the dread to say it, audiophile world

Spouse/house versus Man/hi-fi fan