Where to go?

[derwhalfisch]

Originally Posted by Hearinspace

I'm with SY - work on your charm. Then when you're smooth as the devil you can buy a kit amp and get her to build it for you.

Now now, let's not let the thread degenerate into sensual fantasies

[TerryO]

I'll vote for tubes! For the same reasons that soft, seductive music and candles invokes a softening of their hearts and and heightens passion. I assume that the glow of tubes awakens an avatistic memory of the security of the cave and the presence of a protector in the form of a man.

I really don't care why, as long as it works... (and someday it may!)

Best Regards,
TerryO

[star882]

A good hybrid digital. For best results, minimize the idle power usage and maximize the power-to-size and/or power-to-weight ratios, as well as the efficiency. Making it look nice and/or interesting helps as well. Then point out its advantages such as how much energy it saves.

I can tell you from experience that I was a firm believer in pure digital until a friend of mine presented his TI Hybrid Digital amplifier to me. (See Amanda Harris: the Prius of home audio - EcoRenovator for details about it.) I am now best friends with him and I now believe that hybrid digital is the future.

[Geek]

My trick was hooking a tube amp up to the TV. A week later I took it off and she had to listen to her programs through an $0.85 TV speaker again.

I was instructed to "Put that amp back, right now!"

Be sneaky and you can go big and glowy

Cheers!

[Spooky Electric]

Tubes!
Girls are so curious! They cannot resist to grab the funny glowing gizmo with their tiny little fingers. Probably some archaic instinct.
A good opportunity for the gentleman to show understanding and to patch up the fairy with burn ointment or so. Just the full spectrum of pre-intercourse social behaviour, you know?

[Steerpike]

Now when you are out dating, do you say to yourself:"Gee, Zelda's got that incredible Louis Vuitton purse, with the burgundy lining and sapphire trim! I MUST spend some more time with her! And wow, when she teams it with the Lacroix belt - Gadzooks!"

She's thinking the same about your amplifier.

[GK]

Just go ahead and build your hairy chested Schwartzenegger amplifier and stop being a procrastinating DIY girlie man.
Women are hardwired to be mysterious, so they often pretend to be disinterested in the things that really tickle their buttons. When they complain about a manly audio system that takes up two thrids of the living room, don’t believe it.
What you need to pull the chicks (besides a Barry White album) is a big, beast of an amplifier that rattles, hums, draws down the mains voltage enough to dim the lights, and that necessarily makes a definite statement about you – that beneath the geeky exterior you’re a virile macho man with big hairy balls just ready to explode.

[Geek]

*wipes tea off of my shirt from laughing*

I love these threads

Cheers!

[Spooky Electric]

Originally Posted by GK

What you need to pull the chicks (besides a Barry White album) is a big, beast of an amplifier that rattles, hums, draws down the mains voltage enough to dim the lights, and that necessarily makes a definite statement about you – that beneath the geeky exterior you’re a virile macho man with big hairy balls just ready to explode.

Sounds reasonable. Jürgen, you better take the BIG bottles then!

[Steerpike]

Whatever you build, she'll make you put it on a lace doily so it doesn'r mark the counter-top.