Carl Miller
Screenwriter
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- Mar 17, 2002
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I'm not complaining, but I just can't get over my wife. When I first approached her with the idea of adding an HT to our new home, she said it was a waste of money, but agreed we could spend $299 or so on an AIWA mini home theater... one "with a lot of pretty flashing lights", she said.
When I came home with my Onkyo 494 and Polk tower speakers, she nearly fainted, and predicted the speakers would be like the treadmill...a good place to toss clothes.
When I approached her about adding a sub, she offered to stand aside the TV during movies and bang on a plastic bucket instead.
Tonight I come home and there's my wife, sitting behind the rack of audio equipment hooking up the sub after moving it because "the acoustics in the other corner are better".
She comes out from behind the rack and suggests we ought to look into some dampening to improve the acoustics, and proceeds to tell me she's no longer happy with the Onkyo 494 because it sounds "murky".
Murky? Yes, she continues, "I was at CC this morning giving the H/K 325 a demo and it sounds clean and true".
Whoa!
I said wait a minute, that thing is like $700 or something. She says "it's $499 at Costco and I think we should get it."
I'm totally speechless at this point, but I managed to stutter out the words to ask her where she heard that.
"At hometheaterforum.com" she said.
I learned two very important things today. My wife is even cooler than I've ever given her credit for...and I really better watch what I say around here
When I came home with my Onkyo 494 and Polk tower speakers, she nearly fainted, and predicted the speakers would be like the treadmill...a good place to toss clothes.
When I approached her about adding a sub, she offered to stand aside the TV during movies and bang on a plastic bucket instead.
Tonight I come home and there's my wife, sitting behind the rack of audio equipment hooking up the sub after moving it because "the acoustics in the other corner are better".
She comes out from behind the rack and suggests we ought to look into some dampening to improve the acoustics, and proceeds to tell me she's no longer happy with the Onkyo 494 because it sounds "murky".
Murky? Yes, she continues, "I was at CC this morning giving the H/K 325 a demo and it sounds clean and true".
Whoa!
I said wait a minute, that thing is like $700 or something. She says "it's $499 at Costco and I think we should get it."
I'm totally speechless at this point, but I managed to stutter out the words to ask her where she heard that.
"At hometheaterforum.com" she said.
I learned two very important things today. My wife is even cooler than I've ever given her credit for...and I really better watch what I say around here