How to convince the wife? Any tips?
Is HIFI really only a male thing? No wives reading this forum pondering new upgrades and looking for tips to convince the husband?
There are probably plenty...
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is for permission!
OP, you could go Active, better value for money and significant box reduction and no need to convince her about expensive cables in the future. Less boxes = huge brownie points if your wife isn't as keen on quality music reproduction.
In future don't ask permission, just tell your wife you're buying new speakers. It's called leadership.
It's called suicide! 
jjbomber must be a divorce lawyer who is hoping to soon add to his list of unhappy clients. 
This thread is called "How to convince the wife? Any tips?" and I shouldn't really be on here at all, due to my lack of the vital ingredient, namely a wife. I guess about four occasional girlfriends don't really pass muster. However, since I am the undisputed master of my household, I currently have 38 loudspeakers (six of which are only the size of a man's hand, mind), spread over four rooms, with no wifely permission needed!
OP, you could go Active, better value for money and significant box reduction and no need to convince her about expensive cables in the future. Less boxes = huge brownie points if your wife isn't as keen on quality music reproduction.
So he's not allowed to spend £400 on a pair of speakers and your advice is to spend £1,400 on actives. I know it's Thursday and you had your cult meeting this morning, but that has to be the dullest suggestion of all time.
OP, you could go Active, better value for money and significant box reduction and no need to convince her about expensive cables in the future. Less boxes = huge brownie points if your wife isn't as keen on quality music reproduction.
So he's not allowed to spend £400 on a pair of speakers and your advice is to spend £1,400 on actives. I know it's Thursday and you had your cult meeting this morning, but that has to be the dullest suggestion of all time.
Lets not and say we did yeah?
This thread is called "How to convince the wife? Any tips?" and I shouldn't really be on here at all, due to my lack of the vital ingredient, namely a wife. I guess about four occasional girlfriends don't really pass muster. However, since I am the undisputed master of my household, I currently have 38 loudspeakers (six of which are only the size of a man's hand, mind), spread over four rooms, with no wifely permission needed!
Pick the one that's into hifi........job done! 
OP, you could go Active, better value for money and significant box reduction and no need to convince her about expensive cables in the future. Less boxes = huge brownie points if your wife isn't as keen on quality music reproduction.
So he's not allowed to spend £400 on a pair of speakers and your advice is to spend £1,400 on actives. I know it's Thursday and you had your cult meeting this morning, but that has to be the dullest suggestion of all time.
Oh, tedium, tedium. Could you point me to where I suggest spending £1400? No I didn't think so. Go get a life JJ.
Thank for all to advice, greatly appreciated.
Some great suggestions which I can put to work. I do think an audition of the kit I am considering could get her tempted. She is a massive movie fan and uses the system more than me. Now to lure her for a demo, may have to take her shopping and stumble across an AV store.
Perhaps a holiday could also be a sweetener
I remember when my wife questioned "what the point was spending so much" Then after 1 year we went over to a friends house who had a standard all in one system (£150) setup and she innocently asked "is something wrong with your TV!" >)
Control your woman!
But mor pratcically, tell her no holiday unless you buy it, switch it around on her lol :)
My system is very simple. Find out something she wants - last time I wanted to get a double-neck guitar and I knew she was thinking about a new piano. So i went to the piano shop, there was a piano there for 9K. I asked him to put the price up to 11.5K, then took the wife there, haggled him down to 9.5K, and with the saving of 2K, I halved it and spent 1K on my doubleneck.
I suppose one way to go about this is to bring up that you want to spend a grand on a pair of speakers. Of course she will say 'no' but the final compromise may be that you get the £400 pair of speakers that you wanted in the first place.
Simples.
Advice, just grow a pair.....
Advice, just grow a pair.....
............to relace the ones you used to have! 
So, you paid 500 quid MORE than the pianoman actually wanted for the piano? Or to look at it another way, it cost you 1500 quid to buy a 1k guitar?
Is HIFI really only a male thing? No wives reading this forum pondering new upgrades and looking for tips to convince the husband?