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What would you do differently?

Wives take a lot of heat in the audio press and on forums such as this one for their effects on their husbands' audio enjoyment. WAF is a recognizable acronym and effect, and there's always a lot of anguish over the "grief" of upgrades, etc. What would you do differently if you had nobody to answer to on any audio issues? Is it as simple as, "I'd spend a lot more and play the system a lot louder"?

Personally, I'd do a couple of things differently. First, I'd probably own more than one pair of speakers at any time and experiment a bit more. Sending and receiving speakers seems incomprehensible to my wife so it's a bigger hurdle than it's worth to do this currently, even if I break even on the costs. The second major thing I'd do is remove everything from the semi-dedicated room the system is in that I didn't want in there.

All in all, I suppose the back pressure is good as it keeps a bit of anticipation in the hobby. -Kirk

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fmpnd
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Well, I guess there IS an advantage of being single after all! :-) I own 5 sets of speakers, 5 CD players, 14 turntables, 7 power amps, well, you get the point. I also have a dedicated room with zillion $$ outlets, 1,000s of LPs and CDs, nothing but audio gear as furniture and I play it LOUD whenever I want! But, then again, you have somebody in bed next to you at night (although this may not ALWAYS be a good thing - particularly if you have too many speakers on a given day!! LOL!) whereas I only have a cat - well, again, this may not be a bad thing.

I agree though, if I were married with all of this stuff, I'd probably have been served with divorce papers or be a lot poorer from having to equalize purchases all these years!!

Hooray for bachelorhood!!!!

Let me see, what do I wanna buy next!!
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