Funny things your wife has said...about audio
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jdjohn
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Last night my wife was using earbuds to listen to something on her phone, and she said, "Turn up your music as loud as you want...I'm putting my earbuds in."
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"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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Why does this chair in your music room need to be in the center of the wall?"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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Those speakers need to go or I'm gone.......I do not miss her... the happiest last 3 years of my life for the REST of my life...
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“Why do you care how they sound, you’ve needed hearing aids since you were 10...”
Love ya babe, you’re my world.
Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!! -
"You men like speakers because woofers look like boobies".Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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You can't honestly tell me you can hear a difference between your stereo and my boom box!Gustard X26 Pro DAC
Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)
There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus -
Are those speakers new...?
No hon, we’ve had them forever - I just pulled them out of the closet."Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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"What's that?"
It's a power cord.
"It's big and ugly!"Mojo Audio Illuminati v3>>Quantum Byte w/LMS>>Rpi/PiCoreplayer>> Starlight 7 USB >> Mojo Audio Mystique v2 SE>>ModWright SWL 9.0 SE Signature>>Hafler DH-500 Amp+ (Musical Concepts Fully Modded)>>
SRS 2.3TL (Fully Modded)...Velodyne Optimum 8 subwoofer
1KVA Dreadnought
Marantz SA 8005
Pioneer PLX-1000 Turntable - Shure SC35C/N35X - V15III/VN35HE
Yamaha TX-540 Tuner...Sony BDP-S570
Sony PS4
Separate subpanel with four dedicated 20 amp circuits.
1. Amplification 2. Analog 3. Digital 4. Video
"All THAT IS LOST FROM THE SOURCE IS LOST FOREVER" -
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Wife: If you die before me, what am I going to do with all this stuff?
Me: I guess I won't really care. Make the guys cruising the thrift store happy.Stan
Main 2ch:
Polk LSi15 (DB840 upgrade), Parasound: P/LD-1100, HCA-1000A; Denon: DVD-2910, DRM-800A; Benchmark DAC1, Monster HTS3600-MKII, Grado SR-225i; Technics SL-J2, Parasound PPH-100.
HT:
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Other stuff:
Denon: DRA-835R, AVR-888, DCD-660, DRM-700A, DRR-780; Polk: S8, Monitor 5A, 5B, TSi100, RM7, PSW10 (DXi104 upgrade); Pioneer: CT-6R; Onkyo CP-1046F; Ortofon OM5E, Marantz: PM5004, CD5004, CDR-615; Parasound C/PT-600, HCA-800ii, Sony CDP-650ESD, Technics SA 5070, B&W DM601 -
Don’t you already have that record!2 Channel Rosso Fiorentino Volterra II, 2 REL Carbon Limited, Norma Revo IPA-140B, Lumin U2 Mini, VPI Prime w/SoundSmith Zephyr MIMC, Modwright PH 150, Denon DP-59l w/Denon DL-301MKII, WAY Silver 3 Ana+ Speaker Cables, WAY Silver 4+ Interconnect Cables, AudioQuest Niagara 7000 w/Dragon and Hurricane Power Cables
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"You men like speakers because woofers look like boobies".
She hasn't seen the port holes yet, has she? -
Don’t you already have that record!
I get that one occasionally. Mrs. H simply cannot grok why I might have, say, a half-dozen copies (sometimes more, counting different media) of the same rekkid.
E.g., I literally do not know how many copies of Who's Next there are here. I do know that my early 1970s copy on eight-track broke... but i think I still have the tape from it, wound onto a spare 5" tape reel. That's not... odd, is it?
On topic, Here is a transcript of an actual conversation that took place here yesterday. Mrs. H would like to see me cleave to a steady state model of hifi acquisition/collection. To wit, if a "new" component comes in, an old one goes out.Dr. H: In full disclosure, I just PayPal'd [a sum of money] to [one of the local gurus] for a power transformer for a phono preamp I'm going to be building.
Mrs H: O....kay... so, what will you get rid when you get it?
Dr. H: You'd like me to get rid of a transformer? I can do that!
I do love her very much -- she puts up with a lot. She's a saint.
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As I was trying to sneak my new Mcintosh C2300 pre-amp into the the house my wife caught me and states, "That better not be a microwave". I said, "nope", and that was the end of it.
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My wife, who is an excellent musician with an excellent ear, can tell the difference between the TV speakers and my Yamaha/Polk 5.1 system...but she doesn't care which one she listens to!
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After moving into our new house:
“Are those the same speakers...huh.. they look a lot smaller in here” -
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While listening to Yes's, Long Distance Runaround, on vinyl.
Wife: Did that just skip?
Me: No...it's syncopation.
[silence]"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
My wife has never really said anything strange, but she has done something odd.
When we drove to Indianapolis to pick up the first pair of Utopias, it was her idea to sleep in a Walmart parking lot from 230am to 7am.
It was freezing, I told her it was crazy, but I went along with it because happy wife happy life- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit. -
My wife has never really said anything strange, but she has done something odd.
When we drove to Indianapolis to pick up the first pair of Utopias, it was her idea to sleep in a Walmart parking lot from 230am to 7am.
It was freezing, I told her it was crazy, but I went along with it because happy wife happy life
Awww. That's sweet! She wanted to try roughing it with you!Gustard X26 Pro DAC
Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)
There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus -
We were at a friends house and she says "look how small those speakers are",
trying to convince me we don't need the big speakers we have. I couldn't say in front of my friend "ya, but they sound like crap!"
Awww. That's sweet! She wanted to try roughing it with you!
Our first wedding anniversary (24 years ago) we had a rental car for some reason and decided to go up the coast for a 3 day trip. We brought sleeping bags and just folded the back seat down and slept with our feet in the trunk. After not sleeping because it was uncomfortable and freezing we got motel rooms the next 2 nights.________________
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Shoot, I've slept in my car on audio related trips plenty of times in the cold. I just let the car idle for 6 hours, it didn't seem to mind.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
Village Idiot of Club Polk -
“Honey, I think there’s something wrong with one of your speakers.”
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A new girlfriend walked up to one of my 2.3TL's turned to me and proudly proclaimed with a big smile, "I'm taller than your speakers."Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
Wait til she gets a look at mine. The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
My wife has incredible hearing, almost 'Bat like'. She always knows when I've purchased something new; Cable, Cartridge, etc. as she sees the PayPal or Vender emails, Delivery Alerts, and whatnot.
My Stereo is in the lower level of our home. She will yell down to me while I'm listening; "I can hear the difference those new Cables are revealing".
My reply, "Seriously?" her reply, "Not really, I'm just F***ing with ya"
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Whenever I sneak something into the house, I will always eventually get caught.
"Honey, do you have 2 McIntosh amps in the house? " Busted! Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD. -
Back in the day after I first got my Dodd MLP pre-amplifier, I was cooking one day and grease was all over my hands (rig at that time was in the LR). I asked her if she would be so kind as to turn it up a bit. She could not find the remote, so I told her she could turn it up on the pre-amplifier.
Well, she isn't stereo component savvy so she asked me which component had the volume knob on it. I stated that it was the one that had the wood faceplate and the volume knob was on the right. So she looks on the rack, points to the Dodd and asks...
"Do you mean this DODO?"
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
My wife likes the Home Theater side and Headphone side of the hobby more than the 2 channel side but usually let's me enjoy my hobby, I get the occasional eye roll when a package shows up. The biggest mistake I make is if we are in a store and she says I want this and my response is like is that really necessary that's when she goes off in a semi rant and kindly reminds me of all the gear we have and says is all that necessary.Home Theater
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2 Channel
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I think any man who is married has had that conversation with his wife about his toys, I know I have.Yamaha RX-A2070, Musical Fidelity M6si integrated amp, Benchmark Dac1, Bluesound NODE 2i, Audiolab 6000CDT CD Transport, Parasound Zphono USB Phono Preamp, Fluance RT85, Ortofon 2M Bronze, Polk L600's, L400, L900's, RC80i's, SVS 3000 Micro, Audioquest Interconnects and Digital Cables, Nordost Silver Shadow Digital Cable, Cullen Gold and Crossover Series Power Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 12AWG OCC Speaker Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha Analog Interconnect Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 11 OCC Custom Power Cable, Signal Power Cable, Furman PL-8C 15 Power Conditioner, Sony 65" 900F, Sony UBP-X700, Fios, Apple TV 4K, Audioquest Chocolate HDMI Cables.
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You know what would look good in this room?
You have 3700 sq/ft to play with. Get out of my room
Those curtains are an inch too short
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