Women and Big Speakers

nduitch

Hello forum members,

I have read many reviews both in this forum and in others about how guys had to give up their dreams of owning, or worse yet sell there favorite speakers because their wife made them. This is a terrible injustice. I recently acquired a pair of SDA 1A's a couple of months ago. Before I went to pick them up I told my fiance about all of these poor guys who had to give them up because they were too big! Like me she thought it was terrible and told me that she would never want me to give up something that I so much enjoyed, no matter what they look like or how much space they take up. Why is this happening to so many out there?

snow

nduitch wrote: »

I told my fiance

I think fiance is the key word here

In a perfect world men would have there own room where they could put whatever there hearts desired in it and women would have theres, as a rule they have different tastes in things and what is important to them is usally not whats important to us.



REGARDS SNOW

skrol

My wife lets me keep the RTA11TL's but that is only because she love me. If they were SDA 1A's they would likely be gone.

Better have keeping the SDA's included as part of your marriage vows. Otherwise, the story may change once the honeymoon is over.

nooshinjohn

skrol wrote: »

My wife lets me keep the RTA11TL's but that is only because she love me. If they were SDA 1A's they would likely be gone.

Better have keeping the SDA's included as part of your marriage vows. Otherwise, the story may change once the honeymoon is over.

worse than that, loose a set of sda-srs 1.2tl's in divorce only to have them destroyed in the back of a trash truck less than 6 months later:eek::mad:

lightman1

Ouch.

lightman1

How 'bout big women and speakers?

nooshinjohn

lightman1 wrote: »

How 'bout big women and speakers?

not touching this lest I offend someone and they send rosanne to my house...

greg2350

I read these stories to and I feel for you guys if I told my wife I was buying some speakers that were 5ft tall she would say cool will they sound better than what you allready have.:)

nooshinjohn

greg2350 wrote: »

I read these stories to and I feel for you guys if I told my wife I was buying some speakers that were 5ft tall she would say cool will they sound better than what you allready have.:)

I am grateful to have chosen wisely the second time around, as min supports my hobby completely:)

ben62670

Women in big speakers. Yeah I can do that.
http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53273

HB27

My "EX" (ex being key here) had no problems at all with my huge speakers UNTIL she decided to remodel. Then she conveniently ommited my audio system in her "scheme" for redecorating. I brought that point up and she was steadfast in her decisions.
NOW I date a killer gal that's into audio. She runs Altec Valencia "A" models, Dynaco ST-70, McAlister ML-33 pre, Denon DCM-444cdp, and an old Pioneer PL-51 TT. These are her choices of my "hand me downs". She's great at moving furniture out to get a good sound in her room and is always first in helping set up a new system. No marriage plans here, I've got it good being single and having a "part time partner". Afraid things would change.
I'm envious of the marriages with an understanding wife.
Harry

tom t

my wife never got in the way of my audio hobby. if she did, she would go first.
i think its ridiculous when someone has to give up something becausr the wife dosent like it. i think its call something like p***y whipped

debussyj

Just to renew your faith-I'm a woman and my speakers are 8' feet tall by 3' feet wide each. In fact, I have a listening room devoted to them! My husband tolerates my expensive hobby! Obviously, I think large speakers are a sight to behold for both the eyes and ears! My Dad was a nut for electronics and he taught me well! DJ

Conradicles

debussyj wrote: »

Just to renew your faith-I'm a woman and my speakers are 8' feet tall by 3' feet wide each. In fact, I have a listening room devoted to them! My husband tolerates my expensive hobby! Obviously, I think large speakers are a sight to behold for both the eyes and ears! My Dad was a nut for electronics and he taught me well! DJ

You are da bom':D:cool:

xj4094dg

tom t wrote: »

my wife never got in the way of my audio hobby. if she did, she would go first.
i think its ridiculous when someone has to give up something becausr the wife dosent like it. i think its call something like p***y whipped

Exactly.

nooshinjohn

debussyj wrote: »

Just to renew your faith-I'm a woman and my speakers are 8' feet tall by 3' feet wide each. In fact, I have a listening room devoted to them! My husband tolerates my expensive hobby! Obviously, I think large speakers are a sight to behold for both the eyes and ears! My Dad was a nut for electronics and he taught me well! DJ

I think I'm in LUV!!;)

CowboyRJB2

And I thought my Magnepan Typani 1D's were big?... LMAO

wingnut4772

debussyj wrote: »

Just to renew your faith-I'm a woman and my speakers are 8' feet tall by 3' feet wide each. In fact, I have a listening room devoted to them! My husband tolerates my expensive hobby! Obviously, I think large speakers are a sight to behold for both the eyes and ears! My Dad was a nut for electronics and he taught me well! DJ

Awesome. Not too many of us women are into this and I love to see that.

cfrizz

+1 Darla!

As for big speakers. If there is room for them & everything else that needs to go into the room, then fine. Or if it is a separate room that isn't the livingroom that doesn't have room to spare for such huge speakers knock yourself out.

But if you live in a small apt & are married, work out a compromise, because BOTH of you have to live there.

wingnut4772 wrote: »

Awesome. Not too many of us women are into this and I love to see that.

rbj9

SDA SRS 2.3tl's flank our plasma. On top of one sits an asparagus fern drapping down the front and side. One of our cocker spaniels does what we call the "fern dance" slowly walking under the fern mesmerized letting the fern tickle his body. My wife has never complained about the speakers, but I do think the dog would kill both of us if we decided to get rid of them!

rb

Face

The only time my girlfriend made a negative comment about any of my systems was when I hung 6 2'x4' bass traps in the living room.

SDA SRS 1.2

Lucky here as well - 21 years with the 1.2's in the living room and my darling of 23 years even polishes and dusts them!

CowboyRJB2

check these out
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vaslt&1135958151

tx_polkhead

I came here for the pictures of women and big speakers...GIS please don't fail me!

inspiredsports

Well, I hope posts 13, 19 and 30 by tom t at http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81177 don't offend the ladies, but they sure seemed to help him send his "for sale" amp on its way.

jrgoswick

nooshinjohn wrote: »

worse than that, loose a set of sda-srs 1.2tl's in divorce only to have them destroyed in the back of a trash truck less than 6 months later:eek::mad:

NO S%*^!!!! And she's still alive?

ND13

I guess I could say that I'm lucky with whom I married. I've had up to 14 pair of speakers in the house at one time, most of those could be considered as large by today's standards. 6ft tall Carver's, 135lb SDAs, and so on. She never really said anything other than the part about having speakers that weren't being utilized.

Hillbilly61

debussyj wrote: »

Just to renew your faith-I'm a woman and my speakers are 8' feet tall by 3' feet wide each. In fact, I have a listening room devoted to them! My husband tolerates my expensive hobby! Obviously, I think large speakers are a sight to behold for both the eyes and ears! My Dad was a nut for electronics and he taught me well! DJ

COOL! I was wondering what the male/female ratio is in this hobby & forum in particular. You can never tell about a handle someone will use....

That said, my wifey puts up with my hobby and enjoys the outcome. She does keep me in check with $ outlays as I have the propensity and means to drop some serious $ in support of of this hobby. Concerning the things I bring in and sometimes rotate out, she adjusts the decor accordingly. I never go over the proverbial top either....

Nduich, since you are a soon to be hubby, my advice is to expect and make clear that your soon to be wifey to put up with your hobby and adjust things in her schema accordingly. Trust me, you will DEFINITELY adjust things in your schema as she settles in.

moe

There is an element of the HT crowd that has to take other family members into consideration,to each their own.I have never in 30+ years had any issue with gear and wifey.The smallest front speakers I have are Polk,about 40 inches tall,they are in my bedroom 5.1 set.I have 3 other sets,Living area,Den(both about 4ft w/multi subs)and 5.1 in garage.

My policy is,I had gear when we met(although only 2ch)what you see is what you get.I also think if the other half really loves ya they love to see you happy,at least in my case.If audio was my only hobby I wouldn't even feel guilty.

skrol

If you blow the wad on audio and she comes back, she's yours. But if you crank it and she bolts, then it was never meant to be.

nooshinjohn

jrgoswick wrote: »

NO S%*^!!!! And she's still alive?

yes... sadly OJ was not looking for another gig at the time...