Early 2002 I was a few months of getting wed when the lass in question started to 'think' everything was hers, that she paid for everything - she did, with MY money - and that any sound reproduction would be life-style fitting.
And my Civic Aero-Deck was not 'practical' enough and had to go.
And my Honda RC30 had to go.
The list grew longer and longer till one day......
I told her family at dinner that 'Your daughter is a selfish bitch who has no respect for YOU or any one else and should go get a chuffing JOB, I will marry her only if Hell freezes over first'.*
I went home, put all her belongings residing in my flat out in the parking lot and forgot to tell her - it rained for 2 days before she came and picked the mess up.
FFWD a few years........
New Girl 🙂
We met when she came to my home to take a witness statement from me, music was playing and She the Police Woman said "Don't turn it off, I've never heard HiFi like that before."
After she took my statement, she took out an 'official' cops 'busyness card' and wrote her personal numbers on the rear and handed it to me with the words "If you can think of any thing else to chat about, give me a call........"
We decided that, as we lived 1hr drive apart and her keeping odd hours re work, we should move in together.
Our Home 🙂
Clea thinks:
HiFi is wonderful and is going halves with me on making a 'nice' pair of EmKens and 'Bass support' boxes, she don't care that the bass bit will be pair of USA sized fridges, or that future amps etc might be hot, sharp edged burning hot lumps of alloy...... of have expensive bits of glass sticking out of them.
My Civic is a 'Sleeper'.
My RC30 is a work of art and Part of Our Lives and she insisted, after ok'ing it with the home owners, that it live in the conservatory - I don't have to go into a garage to ogle and polish 'My Bitch' - so that ALL can see it and say 'Wow, that's some bike'.
There are other things:
An old but much loved surf board lives in the bathroom.
My #1 time-trial bike lives on Our bedrooms wall.**
The list is almost endless and works both ways, if some thing don't work for us both, we compromise or junk the idea.
Last Christmas my Em's had pluffed whizzers, I came home from a day of doing.....
Music playing, the sound of the kettle boiling..... Ahhhh, a nice brew to chill with.
Took me 2 seconds to see the pale blue tinsel wrapped round the pluff.
Took me one second longer to smile and call her through to give her a hug and tell her 'That's cool babe'.
"I thought you'd like it and it doesn't seem to affect the sound"
We even did some testing to see if tinsel pluff sounded different to 'regular' pluff!
Clea is quite a lass f'sure - We've talked jokingly about getting wed, but came to the conclusion that the fuss would be more for others than ourselves and if we do we do, if not then every one else can like it or lump it.
*Note: I'm a Yorkshireman, I'll speak my mind and if you don't like it, that's Your problem, I'm off for a cuppa tea
**Note: I don't like my TT bike on the wall, it reminds me of hours of pain, suffering and breakfast re-visiting in 50 mile events!
And my Civic Aero-Deck was not 'practical' enough and had to go.
And my Honda RC30 had to go.
The list grew longer and longer till one day......
I told her family at dinner that 'Your daughter is a selfish bitch who has no respect for YOU or any one else and should go get a chuffing JOB, I will marry her only if Hell freezes over first'.*
I went home, put all her belongings residing in my flat out in the parking lot and forgot to tell her - it rained for 2 days before she came and picked the mess up.
FFWD a few years........
New Girl 🙂
We met when she came to my home to take a witness statement from me, music was playing and She the Police Woman said "Don't turn it off, I've never heard HiFi like that before."
After she took my statement, she took out an 'official' cops 'busyness card' and wrote her personal numbers on the rear and handed it to me with the words "If you can think of any thing else to chat about, give me a call........"
We decided that, as we lived 1hr drive apart and her keeping odd hours re work, we should move in together.
Our Home 🙂
Clea thinks:
HiFi is wonderful and is going halves with me on making a 'nice' pair of EmKens and 'Bass support' boxes, she don't care that the bass bit will be pair of USA sized fridges, or that future amps etc might be hot, sharp edged burning hot lumps of alloy...... of have expensive bits of glass sticking out of them.
My Civic is a 'Sleeper'.
My RC30 is a work of art and Part of Our Lives and she insisted, after ok'ing it with the home owners, that it live in the conservatory - I don't have to go into a garage to ogle and polish 'My Bitch' - so that ALL can see it and say 'Wow, that's some bike'.
There are other things:
An old but much loved surf board lives in the bathroom.
My #1 time-trial bike lives on Our bedrooms wall.**
The list is almost endless and works both ways, if some thing don't work for us both, we compromise or junk the idea.
Last Christmas my Em's had pluffed whizzers, I came home from a day of doing.....
Music playing, the sound of the kettle boiling..... Ahhhh, a nice brew to chill with.
Took me 2 seconds to see the pale blue tinsel wrapped round the pluff.
Took me one second longer to smile and call her through to give her a hug and tell her 'That's cool babe'.
"I thought you'd like it and it doesn't seem to affect the sound"
We even did some testing to see if tinsel pluff sounded different to 'regular' pluff!
Clea is quite a lass f'sure - We've talked jokingly about getting wed, but came to the conclusion that the fuss would be more for others than ourselves and if we do we do, if not then every one else can like it or lump it.
*Note: I'm a Yorkshireman, I'll speak my mind and if you don't like it, that's Your problem, I'm off for a cuppa tea
**Note: I don't like my TT bike on the wall, it reminds me of hours of pain, suffering and breakfast re-visiting in 50 mile events!
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Wifey comes home from school, she's been teaching the little buggers English.
She asks the class, "Can you come up with a sentence with contagious in it ?"
Johnny replies - "I've got a cold, Mummy tells me it might be contagious"
"Well done" says missus.
Sarah replies - " I must wash my hands after coughing as the germs on them might be contagious"
"Well done" says missus.
Aubrey replies - " Dad says its going to take that contagious to paint his fence with that tiny brush"
Missus - GOBSMACKED.
She asks the class, "Can you come up with a sentence with contagious in it ?"
Johnny replies - "I've got a cold, Mummy tells me it might be contagious"
"Well done" says missus.
Sarah replies - " I must wash my hands after coughing as the germs on them might be contagious"
"Well done" says missus.
Aubrey replies - " Dad says its going to take that contagious to paint his fence with that tiny brush"
Missus - GOBSMACKED.
The bikes aren't allowed to live in the house anymore. One speck of chain grease near the baseboard will find its way onto the ceiling, every door handle and cabinet pull, and every white shirt in the house. Within 24 hours and without going anywhere near the thing. Sort of like heat sink compound, only black.
The last bike to move out to the shop was her P38.
TT racer.....
The 19lb carbon confection that hangs on the bedroom wall is a 'Pre UCI Legal' Specialised Shiv in Black / Black / Nude carbon with Shimano Dura-ace Di2 group-set and Zipp wheels with bottom bracket / wheels / headset running Ceramic bearings.
The one that lives in the conservatory is a '90 Honda VFR 750R / RC30 that's roughly 9/10's F1 bike with headlights, its the only thing I've ever bought on HP. It's modded enough to weigh in at 310lbs (400lbs stock) and bellows out a mind numbing 154bhp @ 14,600rpm on a dyno, for road use it's wound back to 12,300rpm.
Humble sorry for OT post.
Too much lube my man 🙂
My Hack / Training bike lives in the garage as its run on the Belgian principle of Zen - If it aint broke, don't do a damn thing to it, lag it in grease so it wont stop working no matter what and only clean if bored out of ones skull
Surfboard Wax....... now that stuff is impossible to shift offa ANYTHING.
Ahhhh.... Sippy me lad,, that lassy of yours sounds like she's a real bit of all right indeed mate. She's not just a keeper, she's even more than a role-model! That woman of yours sound's like "the" REFERENCE STANDARD of what an audiophile/music lover's wife should be. Think about all the audiophile guys out there that's cannot find even a keeper of a woman. From what I've seen these guys can be broken into two groups. Those who deliberately chose not to have a mate because they would rather be alone than be in a "marriage" where the wife makes her husband feel like he's just being allowed the privilege to live in the home he's paid for. She makes it known the home is hers from the beginning and if hubby has any doubts, she'll occasionally threaten "divorce" if they have any children, just to drive her point and her true position in the house, home.
Of course there's also those poor, beaten-down audiophiles who bit the bullet, took the chance, and got married. These poor, pitiful, old fools felt their wives would change their ways after they saw their husbands were in a loving, committed, faithful relationship. And if that alone wasn't enough. Then certainly once they started having children together, THAT should be the one final straw that would break their wives "this is my home" attitude. However the reality is now these poor audiophiles live very unhappy lives with their female dictators. These women knew getting married and having children only strengthened her position about whose home it really is! And God help poor hubby if he makes any attempts at putting his foot down and asserting some demands. As quick as a rattlesnake can bite, she'll threaten she wants a divorce. She'll claim she just cannot live with a man who demands to have his way and demeans her in front of their children. These poor, pitiful shells of an audiophile. If they're lucky the wife "might" give them the garage to setup a system. Provided that he doesn't play the music too loud, doesn't interfere with her TV shows, doesn't play after the children go to bed, etc., etc., and she'll actually fell she's being magnanimous for doing so!
Sippy these poor, old, beaten down, shell of audiophiles need YOUR help! I have an awesome idea of how you personally could help thousands of poor, pitiful, beaten down, shells of what were once vibrant audiophiles. With Christmas coming what a present this would be. Tonight when Clea, that incredible REFERENCE STANDARD of what an audiophile/music lover's wife/mate should be, goes to sleep. Might I suggest you take that opportunity to go into the bathroom and take as much of her hair from her hairbrush that you can get. You can even tell her you saw the hair in her hairbrush and wanted to clean it for her ---{just hope she doesn't give you a lie detector test} Then you could take the hair to a lab that could extract her DNA and use it to have her cloned! Just think of all the joy you could spread amongst your fellow audiophiles! You could have her clones spread around to your fellow unfortunate audiophiles for Christmas!?!?! etc., etc..
Well Sippy what do you think of me idea mate?
Christmas just might be really, really special for many poor audiophiles this year! It's all up to you Sippy...Thetubeguy1954 (Tom Scata)
The solution involves spending $68k on an outbuilding. Provided, of course, that she didn't make you move into a neighborhood with an HOA.
Sippy my Colombian bride is definitely a role model and better than 90% of the audiophile wives I've heard about or met. But yours is the REFERENCE STANDARD! If we're going to clone it might as well be the best, no?
Thetubeguy1954 (Tom Scata)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<There's my Argentine lass resides down here.....I did the GIF movie...haven't been able do such accurate 'modeling'..
Richard this is my Colombiana espousa.
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a548/thetubeguy1954/100_3843_zps881fd595.jpg
She's definitely my better half and a sweetheart to all my audio friends. When they visit and we're playing tunes. "If" she wants to watch TV she'll either watch it in the living room, shut off the volume and put on closed captioning or else she'll say goodnight to everyone and go into the bedroom and watch TV with the door closed.
Thetubeguy1954 (Tom Scata)
When we designed our house, I suggested we should build in sub-woofers... She said, "how about 4? We can use the columns in the living room. They're 30" wide, you can use 10' high for cabinet if you want."
Built in 4 very nice 10" sealed boxes. Nice.
Built in 4 very nice 10" sealed boxes. Nice.
Four built-in subwoofers. Now that woman is a definite keeper.
Thetubeguy1954 (Tom Scata)
Indeed. She likes to "dust" by turning the system up. Years ago, I had to replace our original 2x B139 woofer with 4x 12", because B139 make an ugly noise when they hit the stops.Here's what the living room looks like now:
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You have a very nice livingroom. The lighting, furnishings, fireplace, view (from what can be seen), everything, very nice appointments.
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