Hi John; I for one have never married. Currently, I am 57 years old. I am not looking for a wife for two reasons. One; my health is not the greatest and 2nd. the girl I did love from 1984 had declining mental and physical health and passed away in April 2000. When she was alive, she did not have patience to sit thru a movie(due to a bi-polar disorder). She did participate a small amount when we went out to county fairs, parks and other events when I used my portable video equipment during the mid 1980s to 1992. She did have enough patience to listen to demonstrations of surround sound. I think that one of the funniest things she ever said was when I showed her the battle between Robocop and Police Robot at the end of ROBOCOP 2. I asked her what she thought about the scene and the outrageous surround sound track when she replied; I liked the scene between the two TIN MEN. Speaking of shades of the WIZARD OF OZ. I thought that what she said was BEAUTIFUL and original which is why I loved her so much.

I believe on some of these boards you will hear the expression WAF and SAF for WIFE ACCEPTANCE FACTOR or SPOUSE ACCEPTANCE FACTOR applying towards the looks of home theater to the lady of the house. I know there are women in the electronic publication business that appear to be interested in the home theater aspect but I think men are the dominant home theater dabblers in the hobby. When my mother was alive, I told her, at least the stuff entertains you(this was before vcrs and dvds and only FM Radio and Vinyl), not sit around all day as an ornament in a living room. or turning the house into a showroom looking like a furniture store and even worse telling everybody where they could not sit.

I think you are going through a time of reflection for your potential future between your hobby and your girlfriend. If things had been better for both of us when we met, I would have married my girlfriend and have had children. The loving of a lady is on a very high plane of its own existence and cannot be compared to this hobby. It sits on its own merits. A receiver is man made, man being a manipulator of the elements needed to make a receiver out of the earth; but a women is created by a higher power and is like yourself a complex organism that walks among the elements of the earth on ones own power. The receiver cannot do that( but some subs have been known to do the "walk").

You are satisfied with your system now. I see no reason why it should not work well even under slightly different conditions in Vegas over N.Y.C. That is the least of your worries. KELSCI.