I keep telling her if she knew what this stuff was worth she might start dusting it.
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I can’t imagine any trouble arising from that. 
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Yes but if I tell her what it cost she would make me sell it so she could have the unnecessary kitchen remodel she keeps insisting on.
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Have you ever met someone who has gone through a kitchen remodel? It usually takes 3 to 4 years and life is hellish the entire time. I’ve seen it so many times.
Just say no. A new wife would be easier and cheaper.
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You have a point. I don’t want a new wife though. I already lost one to lymphoma and this one . . . well I love her. So my plan that I have been able to stick to so far is to hold off on a remodel until she retires so she can project manage it, and I can do my best to cower upstairs with headphones. So far that is the plan in place, and she wants to work two or three more years. . . though once a week she threatens to quit. Life is an adventure.
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That’d be me. It actually took 18 months (a complete tear out and rebuild), and was one of the things done with my retirement home. That and the dedicated sound room were my two major interior efforts (oh, and my wife and I together completely repainting the interior!). I’m the cook in the family, so for me the kitchen was (almost!) as important as the sound room. But even if it had been my wife’s wish, I’d have done it. Like lonson my first wife was taken from me. It puts simple requests like these in perspective. Life is too uncertain to have conflict over such minor stuff.
It still wasn’t any fun, though! 
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I’m the cook in the family too and my beef is it’s a 105 year old expanded cottage and the kitchen is just fine and functional. . . and I’d rather use the money to build a garage to connect to the house so we didn’t have to navigate the twelve steps up to the front deck and door in the wintertime as we age–because we ain’t goin’ nowhere and we have no garage and we’ll get wobbly. She says “we can do that later.” But. . . I don’t see how we can. We have money to do one or the other and it’s not like money will fall into our lap–there’s no one to inherit from etc.
First world problems! I’d rather have these.
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Amen.
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Gotta do what’s more important. Safety sounds like a good thing! 
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Lake House was previously the testing ground, now I consider it the alternate listening space. To keep peace in the family I just bought her a new scull and oars.
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Day 5 (and my wife is still upstairs, I suppose…)
Internet provider came home and enabled the fiber/router stuff.
Ceiling panels back at their own place.
Pursuing the perfect symmetry, finally side walls are in progress:
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Did you forget to add the sorbothane/elevator/isolation feet support for the wire in ceiling? 
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Do you have any concerns about over dampening the room, Luca?
That looks like a lot of absorbing panels.
Curiously yours,
Scott
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I’m afraid at the end of this work I’ll find out how many things I have forgotten… even if I meticulously scheduled all since last August, day after day, night after night.
PS I can always use some cork! Cheers!
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Cork works! Hmm, I may need to open another bottle. The cellar is getting full again from a wine shipment. 
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I studied and took measurements with the help (and guidance) of an acoustic engineer. We decided to build side walls with absorber panels (where I can have fine tuning with magnetic diffusers applied on the panels at my choice later) and keeping front/back walls for diffusion. Side walls panels are custom made with an internal special membrane able to dampen bass frequencies only, letting be mid/high freq immune.
Each acoustic panel is mounted on a back wooden panel able to slide horizontally to fit my tastes, keeping them more or less close to each others and covering doors/windows behind them (that was my nightmare before). The intent is achieving symmetry in different configurations.
At first sight it seems too much absorption but these panels are really impressive, it seems the room is sounding more airy and open just hearing our voices today. Much much better and more alive than before when I had zillions of objects on shelves and furnitures around on both side walls. Time will tell, fingers crossing.
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You have turned the room into an audiophile’s dream cave! Nice work and now you have a tuning room!
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You, members of this forum, turned me in a monster!
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Good to know…
The proof will be in the listening.
Have lots of fun.
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