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"What is that box come over there and when did you get it?"
I cleaned up the listening room today and the wife came up to inspect. She was referring to the REL Strata III that I purchased 11 years ago almost to the day. She walked away with a very suspicious look on her face.
Edits: 10/31/15 10/31/15Follow Ups:
My wife really doesn't care what I buy and I tell her everything. She was speechless when I told her I just had to have an expensive Audio Research preamp though. It gave me a few second thoughts too. However, I rarely buy stuff I don't keep forever.Her hobby is reading books which she buys for a penny used off Amazon. She gets free shipping. Even though she's bought hundreds (the UPS truck is parked in our driveway), it's pretty hard not to appear profligate compared with that.
Edits: 11/01/15
My wife called me from a local estate sale one day.Do you know anything about McIntosh?
The computer?
No, Audio Gear (now I am getting a little piqued)
Well sure, honey (threw that in for good measure), I know a little.
Are MC1.2KW worth anything?
Um, yeah, Sugar Booger, they are worth more than my car.
OK, I will buy them.I waited at the garage and lo and behold, she got them, totally mint condition and in the box. I will not say what she picked them up for, nor will I admit to what I sold them for - I made up my mind that I would not keep them, and it ended up funding ALL of my subsequent audio projects, and a family trip to Punta Cana...very nice amps tho...was not an easy decision (letting them go)
She never understood this hobby. She "Gets" it now.
I VOID WARRANTIES
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Barry, if your wife is buying books for a penny on Amazon, she is buying them from the Amazon MARKETPLACE. Shipping is not free, it's $3.99 per book, even if you are a Prime member. I know because that's the way I buy my books.
Edits: 11/02/15
She confirms your statement mraudio. It won't help me. I bought an Audio Research Reference 40th Anniversary preamp. 5,000+ Marketplace books shipped at the price I paid for it. She's still got a ways to get even.
You want her "used" books. Untouched. She once read 17 on a 3 week cruise vacation we took off to China. Ok, so there was some downtime for the typhoon; but still, she's a voracious reader.
Barry...I was trying to help you. Thought maybe she was trying to "sneak" one over on you. :-)
So what is that black box? Really though, she doesn't care. It's my room, my thing...
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