@ParadigmDawg:
While renovating the living room, kitchen, laundry, etc, just add the attic to the list. That'd be a great space to maintain your audiophilery I bet. And you can sell it to your wife by telling her that'll be the new location for the cable modem and wifi router.
Or go one step further and move the office to the other end of the attic, and she can reclaim one of her bedrooms. It's win-win, really. She might even dig picking out the perfect wrought iron spiral staircase. The attic project will be ultra HGTV.
If not, you can always maintain your audioholic status with a nice headphone amp and pair of cans.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.