[jimmaswell]

I never understood the "ugly" perception. At worst some might look boring to me, but at best some of them are absolutely beautiful. For example, my favorite in my collection appearance-wise has a 70s-style wooden finish on all but the front plate with a polished silver look on the front plate: https://imgur.com/a/DAUeJJW

[ryandrake]

This is going to sound kind of sexist, but I have never met a woman who was OK interior design-wise with 18 inch stereo equipment in the living room. I mean look at the OP article: He's got all this stuff hidden away in a closet. This seems to be the only viable way to keep an "A/V stack" full of black boxes and a marriage.

I've got a great sounding 5.1 system with a receiver and a game console and everything set up. You know where it is? My garage.

[literallywho]

Is it really love if it hinges on the presence of high quality stereo equipment? Also, I have a friend who has similar stuff out in the open and is happily married.

[db48x]

You’ve either been meeting the wrong women or you need more rooms. One room where people can sit and talk to each other and a completely different room where people can sit and listen to music or watch a screen. Ideally if you want music in that first room you would put a piano in there, because playing the piano (and singing along) is a social activity that people can actually do together. Neither of these activities should be relegated to a garage.

[andersa]

So many problems and more money could solve every one of them!

[M95D]

> You’ve either been meeting the wrong women or you need more rooms.

> So many problems and more money could solve every one of them!

More money isn't going to bring him the right woman. They'll more likely attract an even worse type of woman.

[db48x]

Well, even a gold digger can amicably agree to split the responsibilities for decorating the rooms of the house, if you have enough of them to specialize a little bit.