Chess, beyond the obvious tongue-in-cheek I provided for snip, the Axioms have had an interesting and welcome side effect.

We took some dancing lessons last year in advance of my daughter's wedding. They were so much fun, we have continued them. Anyhow, when I get into some of the CDs, my wife shows up and pulls me out of my seat and we end up dancing in the sound blanket. We've been talking about expanding both the lessons and breadth of the CD collection because of the improvement in music.

She's also gotten more into the movies. We were watching Seabiscuit Saturday night and the scenes involving the races are pretty interesting with horses galloping all around the room on the QS8s. She grabbed the remote and turned it up to enjoy the ambient sound and also asked - how do we get more bass?

In a couple of weeks the Axioms have turned this HT thing from being my hobby to something we can share. Kinda nice.