So That's What All the Noise is About

As most of you know, The Wife has been exiled to Homeless, Luzianne for her sins.  As some of you know, yesterday was Valentine's Day.  So I found some flowers, drove deep into the swamp, and wished her a happy V-Day.  In-depth details will not be provided.*

As part of the festivities, we decided to watch a movie in the crappy apartment she's been sequestered in.  Said crappy apartment lacks DVD player, but The Wife is clever and brought her laptop.  Except the laptop has, well, laptop-quality speakers and we were missing a lot of the finer dialogue points in the movie.  So we decided to go buy some computer speakers.

Well, one thing you can say about Homeless, Luzianne is that it has a Best Buy.  Really.  It's right across the street from the Wal-Mart and the Outback.  Homeless is a mecca for chain stores.  Or something.  So there we are in Best Buy, looking at the so-so speakers for $90, when I realize that for a mere $350 we can a top-of-the-line, Bose, virtual-surround-sound, violate-noise-regulation-and-cause-structural-damage type surround sound system.

I was weak.

But DAMN.  Those things make a difference.  Once we got 'em figured out (which was tricky) we watched a few shows and were amazed by the sound.  Despite putting no effort whatsoever into the speaker arrangement, and having a really awful room acoustically speaking (or aesthetically speaking, for that matter) the sound experience was downright intense.  The only problem was we had to keep turning down the damn things whenever we decided to watch a Bruckheimer flick. 

I'm looking forward to getting them home and plugging them into my existing system.  It'll be funny to have speakers that are worth more than everything else combined.

*you're welcome