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Speaker finish?

Here's a spouse epihany: In my living room, for the past 6 years, reside a pair (for the visual; interchange the speaker and color of your choice) of Zu Audio Definitions. The sell job on my wife to purchase these babies was as tough as it gets, but I have sold her the Brooklyn Bridge many times before. To her, as well as others. Anyway now it was time for a change of speakers, but lo and be hold they are the latest and greatest Definitions, so the footprint is the same, but just an inch or so higher. Another tough sell, being that they not only will cost some serious $$, they are still "ridiculous towers" in our living space. Well, I close the deal and order the speakers and (another) lo and behold, last night as we're going to bed, by wife says to me (I'll paraphrase, but this is as close to a direct quote as I can remember) "I'm actually excited about your new towers. The color is going to look great in our living room. Very beachy, and will look fabulous with our living theme. No I don't give a f__* what they sound like or why they do what they do to your music, so don't get too excited. They are going to be nice looking towers" What's an audiophool to say? I love her madly and am waiting on my music "towers." BTW, she does not accept this rap: "let me show you what speaker towers can look like." Proud of myself for taking the high [tacit]road, since it would only generate "there are sicker puppies out there, and that does not make it right." Any identification with this?...lol...
BTW the speaker color she chose was not a (NO charge) custom color, even though she would, at this stage of my audiophool career, pay anything for a "tower" that would compliment a living thematic. Go figure.
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My wife has never seen any speakers I have bought before they 'appear' in the house. That said, I do understand her tastes and our living arrangments, so I know I can't buy electrostats/planars, or other 'big' speakers, because I have no room for them. I know she prefers a darker wood, usually rosewood. My speakers are usually around 4 foot high, less than a foot wide. She would prefer smaller, (Bose cubes are invisible you know...lol), but I still manage to keep full range speakers.

Her other nit is seeing exposed tubes, she does not like this at all. So she was quite unhappy when she came home and saw my new Cary SLP-98P F1 preamp last week. She gets mad, she gets glad again. I don't complain about her hobbies.

In fact, the way I see it now, she can't complain at all. I was waiting for years for my children to grow up and leave the nest. I figured I'd take an old bedrooms and turn it into a man cave. LOL! I still have one at home, but it turns out that she snagged both bedrooms of the boys that moved out. One is now her changing room and the other is her scrap-booking room. So my system is still in the main living room. I don't complain, because it's a good room acoustically, but from where I sit, she can't complain about how anything looks either. Because it only sits in the living room because she's hogged all the other rooms. :)
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