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In the Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room
Post Subject: WAF: it depends.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/30/2012
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 Stitch wrote:
One of my audiophile Friends did it the only way a real man has to do (he had a HUGE stereo System with 2 big monos and fat cables everywhere in his living room)
He showed that his girlfriend (they married btw.) and said to her:
"You know, what was first here?"
They moved a few times and no matter in what room he made his Set Up, it was ok for her.
Well, I am not in position to express option on the WAF front. I think it all depends from given specific circumstances, the priorities of the given people, and not the last: the desert of the people to piss each other. When Amy moved with me I did clearly stated that you can do whatever you wish with the house but the listening room stays as it is. She did exactly that – she changed everything in the house but she was very cautious with listening room. In the end she did made many cosmetic changes in listening room (and she will do more) but we do it not because she like and insist in them but because I find that many of her decorating and nesting directions do attract me. She does not change anything fundamental or essential in listening room. In fact she is very considering and if she does propose something then she does ask me about the acoustic and other consequences. I do not think that she appreciate the playback efforts at the anal-retentive level as I do but it looks like she appreciate my dedication and love of those things and she understands that to play Bruckner ambitiously is not the worst “hobby” a mid age male might have. I do think that she perceives my audio as she perceives her viola.  Playing chamber music and for Boston Philharmonic is just her hobby, something that she loved tremendously and something that she spent half life to learn (Master of Viola from Yale University). She does not do it professionally; she has a full-time job that is not related to music. Still, she feels that to think about me losing my audio is like thinking of her losing her viola….

She was very surprised that in the very beginning of our relationship I though Amy how to use playback and it is true pressure to call home and hear here playing our Bach. I do not see any WAF episodes at all. Am I lucky or we just too short time with Amy to let the WAF syndrome to be developed to the full bloom? I do not know answers but I do not feel that it will be a problem. After I told she how much POD cable cost per feet she did look at miles of the cables in basement and subjected that here is where the payments for daycare are hiding. Ironically it did not upset me by rather entertain me. There is very few things that she says that truly upset me and none of it related to music or audio….

The Cat

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