Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
Ok from what I'v read it sounds like your buying too much gear and swapping things around too much right now. All at a time you say you're in a small house and the "Plans Are" to move into a bigger place that your working on.
There is always deals the thing is your looking and dragging them home. In the space and time your at one would, should look at enough is enough. You have a system that plays music, stop chasing deals and looking for more clutter in your life. No matter where you live at some point you'll need to get off the tread mill of the grass is greener, and needing to shop and buy.
Options
Leave them there knowing she's not happy.
Pack them up and store till you move and they're out of the living room.
Sell them at no lose since you said you got a deal.
Now my opinion on the looks, I think they are ugly and wouldn't want them in my space either. I don't mind the size or the high polish gloss black. But the contrasting gaudy flashy trim rings and driver cones really are off putting. I wouldn't want them in my space no matter how they sound and if I had to have them the grill screens would be a must have to hide the drivers. They remind me of early 80s cheap kabuki speaker trying to show value buy accenting the drivers and bring a mechanical look. But that's just my two cents and we're all different in what we like.
Well put 4-2-7, IMHO. +
Grills in place might have had a less of a shock factor for her first impression..
I doin`t get the popularity of leaving the grills off speakers, after all, they are for listening to music and hopefully when set up correctly should disappear sonically when quality music is played through them..
I`m single and never been married, so there is no WAF/GFF in any of my house`s 6 room setups, but I find those hyper stack of white paper cones glaringly gaudy looking and draw needless visual attention to them..
Is leaving speaker grill`s off some kind of visual techno bragging rights that is lost on me ?
Properly designed(hopefully !) speaker grill`s should have a very minimal impact, and then only at the highest frequency`s.
But that`s just my opinion, and it`s value, or not, is subject to question, I`m sure !!
Carry on folks.
Regards, OKB