Pet peeves: significant others and the hi-fi

I should just add that what makes this worst is that in 12 years, I am the one that cleans the home and takes care to dust underneith them. What prompted this sudden cleaning frenzie that ended in disaster I will never know.

Maybe she's pregnant

Be glad you've got a Hoover, a Dyson might have shredded the plinths

Actually, the baby just arrived a few weeks ago, so that won't be it.

Well then it's clearly a postpartum related event. Easy cure is a vasectomy.

Yes, once you determine the cause, the "fix" is easy!  (Says me who fathered 4 and has 2 stepdaughters as well.)

My only spousal pet peeve is that she can't stand live Grateful Dead, or Yes.  Somehow we manage.

If I may I suggest - do take up your vacuum cleaning duty as soon as possible to avoid a possible disaster....

Like you, I'm the one performing the vacuum cleaning in our home - except the one time, where it all went horribly wrong and one of the speakers fell over and hit the floor with full force. Both speakers are on their way to Denmark for a costly repair. Because the tweeter and mid range unit of both speakers are matched both speakers must have the units replaced. My poor wife was heartbroken but has now come to the conclusion that she actually did me a favour as I'm having the speakers upgraded also......

The cost of this favour expected to be around £ 2000,-

Aftre you replace them, hook out the TL grilles at the base and pump in some concrete (1 part cement, 3 parts sharp sand, 1 part pea gravel) wait till you see the bass cones starting to bulge (need as much in as poss.) replace grille.

Hide behind settee when she gets the hoover out, revenge at it's sweetest!

Priceless, just priceless

Volume!!! My missus seems to have an issue with her hearing and thinks anything beyond 25 on the volume level is 'too' loud! It drives me crackers and is often the source of much heated discussion, which I generally loose! It's not that I play music that loud either, between 35-50 

I've just re-built my system to install some TQB speaker cable, and my other half gave me a hand.  We moved the CDS3 and the hiline.  The black plastic sheathing came away, but fortunately clicked back in (seemingly) fine.  The other half asked if we had an electricians tape that we could fix it with.  I wasn't convinced she'd agree with the finer points of Naim's isolation theories.

This really is a pathetic thread!

My wife shares the living room. We share the music when we are both in there together. We share the volume control. So what if she wants the radio instead of a CD or it a bit quieter? Feel free. It is called a partnership!

As for moving the speakers; from her point of view a) did you actually tell her about not moving them b) lighten up.

I celebrated my 25th wedding anniversary this weekend. We have still never had a single row. Not one.

My view is that we annoy each other equally so it all cancels out.

Bruce

Bruce,

Some might say you are ignoring your wife if only YOU are celebrating 25 years married?  

I did invite her along too, honest.

Bruce, I agree with your sentiments. This is another example of those 'let's s****** at the silly women' threads that pop up from time to time, which have no place here, or anywhere. 

And there goes the nanny software preventing me saying s n i g g e r. 

My domestic goddess has a peeve about some of my modern jazz,  I reciprocate with her Garry Barlow & Michael Bubbles 

- perfect equilibrium

Not healthy, not healthy at all

Congratulations I didn't achieve my 17th, also never fights - so that's not always a save indicator....

That's fair enough. But you don't have to participate if it bothers you so much. It's all in a the name of a bit of fun. And I don't think the significant other needs to be a lady - could be the other way around. Some of us just have better halves (whatever their gender) who just don't get the hi-fi.

But you are spot on in one respect, for everything thing that the other half might do to the hi-fi which amuses me, I am fairly sure when she watches me spend an evening rearranging cables, the only thing that comes to mind is "what a sad b******d." Lighting up is probably good advice.

Certainly did not have a row about the speakers - she knows it annoyed me but we're 8 years in and 12 inches of floor space isn't worth arguing about. Especially since last year she let me buy a new Supercap to cheer myself up after being made redundant - that is pure gold.

So it's probably too soon to try for some new speakers based on her breaking the old ones with the vacuum cleaner....

I got two cartridge upgrades out of my wife dusting the LP-12.

I think I need to wait for the baby to poke something through the cones before I get a new pair. From my experience working in a hi-fi dealer many many moons ago, very few speakers escaped encounters with toddlers. Biros and screwdrivers being weapons of choice.

Not really a significant other but your cartridge tale of woe has a parallel. About 20 years ago at Uni, my friend's dad came up to visit him. His dad knowing nothing about hi-fi, tried to be cool when looking at his LP12 and asking "So you do some DJ ing on this then?" proceeded to do an imitation of scratching.

Into oblivion went the cantilever on his Arkiv. To make matters worse, his dad said he was very sorry and handed him 20 quid "to get a knew one at Dixons". I let myself out the back door not wanting to be in the middle of that argument. Embarressing dad moment for sure - but he then had to explain how much it cost and how a uni student without a job could afford one.

"Pathetic"?

It makes more sense than lots of the threads around here. 

+1!!!!

steve