I think of the audiophile as the fiancé one would introduce to one's parents and the caveman as the mistress one wouldn't.
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There is truth in what you suggest, Keith.
That admitted, I have a teeny suspicion that parents might, just might be more forgiving than could a wife: where parents think they understand, a wife would most wilfully and certainly refuse so to do.
Or, one might employ the strategy of French presidents and keep one of each, even if it does mean the inconvenience of a bike ride between the two. In either case, steer well away fom Cliveden: it could make the entire structure keel over on its back, or at least fall off a chair.
Caution is the word for the day.