You mean you don't want to hear every single ear-shattering explosion and brilliant gem of dialogue in Transformers 2? (Seriously, that movie plays way better on mute.)
While I love a good home theater system, I understand your complaints. Let's be honest: As great as your stereo set-up is, you're still in your living room. Do you really need the full movie theater experience when you're sitting ten feet from the TV? Wow, the sub-woofer is so powerful, you can feel the room shake! Honestly, if I want to feel the room quake during a movie, I'll go to that arthouse theater in the West Village where the subway rumbles underneath my feet.
My advice would be to ask your husband to save the sound system for Hollywood blockbusters, high-octane action TV (24, Lost), and sporting events. Clearly, he's an audiophile (something I can relate to), but I think even he would agree that something like, say, 30 Rock doesn't need to be in Dolby 5.1 surround sound. I understand wanting to show off the system, but does it really matter for The Colbert Report? Colbert's rants would be just as funny on a black & white Magnavox.
That said, all bets are off when guests come over. There's nothing a home theater nerd loves to do more than blast his pals' ears out with Con Air on Blu-Ray.
While I love a good home theater system, I understand your complaints. Let's be honest: As great as your stereo set-up is, you're still in your living room. Do you really need the full movie theater experience when you're sitting ten feet from the TV? Wow, the sub-woofer is so powerful, you can feel the room shake! Honestly, if I want to feel the room quake during a movie, I'll go to that arthouse theater in the West Village where the subway rumbles underneath my feet.
My advice would be to ask your husband to save the sound system for Hollywood blockbusters, high-octane action TV (24, Lost), and sporting events. Clearly, he's an audiophile (something I can relate to), but I think even he would agree that something like, say, 30 Rock doesn't need to be in Dolby 5.1 surround sound. I understand wanting to show off the system, but does it really matter for The Colbert Report? Colbert's rants would be just as funny on a black & white Magnavox.
That said, all bets are off when guests come over. There's nothing a home theater nerd loves to do more than blast his pals' ears out with Con Air on Blu-Ray.
At least he hasn't made your home entertainment system so complex and mystifying that it's practically unusable except by him and his armada of universal remotes, each of which only works on a single machine. Oh wait, he did? Should have seen that coming.
My two favorite shows, 30 Rock and Colbert! Strangely, my 22 month old daughter *loves* Colbert and Stewart, and will watch either of them over her kid's shows.