chewy
Active Member
Well, if you so want I am a 'kept man' - I am a stay-at-home dad for our two adopted, special needs kids, Mariah (8) and Malachi (9). My wife and I both have PhDs in chemistry, but she is the by far more career driven one of us, so when the kids moved in two years ago - almost to the day - she kept her academic job, which sounds glamorous, but is not particularly well paid, especially considering the hours she puts in. I decided to stay at home and look after the brats for a while. She'd never make me sell anything I really want, and in addition to the fish tanks I have an extensive camera/lens collection that I recently upgraded from manual focus Minolta to Canon EOS. I have a DSLR and a gazillion lenses from 10mm to 400mm, but I usually pay for the stuff from money I make by buying and selling gear on eBay. We'd be broke if tried to siphon the cash out of the household money!
Regarding the speakers, I have a pair of Atoms in the living room and a pair of ATL HD 304 in the bedroom. The latter are a German made speaker, and little known around here, but those are my babies and would never be sold! I bought them in Germany when I was in my teens. The 11se I haven't been able to use in months, so they are just an eye sore in the family room right now. Considering for a moment that I'd keep them - you guys are a bad influence on me - but in a way you are right, I do like them and I paid good money to have them shipped to me some years back, which would obviously go down the drain if I sold them. What kind of system would you recommend for driving them? I only need an amp and a cd player. It shouldn't break the bank, but I am vary about buying audio stuff second hand. I made some major purchases of used NAD and Nakamichi equipment maybe three years ago, and all the stuff I bought died within a few months. So while I buy most aquarium and photo stuff second hand, I don't want to take that risk any more for audio stuff. Problem with the 11se is that they need quite a bit of umph to get them going - much easier with the Atoms and the ATL, which are not much bigger. I have a second pair of Atoms stored away in the basement, which I was planning to use to replace the 11se
BTW - if I actually got the 11se going again, my wife would not object. While not into photography or fish tanks, she loves classical music, and used to play the violin at a level where she could have easily chosen to become a professional. In other words once the sound great there will be no objections, but at the moment they just look big and ugly!
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