My rig is a hobby that I also happens to use for music and video production. I don't need that large machine, but like all hobbies it cost money, and you have to make a budget and stick to it. And the budget has to be in balance that is. Its all about balance and priority. I am single and can afford not buying clothes and holidays and such. I have a hard priority of this. My budget is almost only this. And to be honest. I would trade it for a relationship with a girl to love, any day. But that's life.

Yah man, something you put your life into, takes time to develop, and master...so go slow, spend a bit here and a bit there, and collect interest in something that keeps us out of trouble, and at home where the eye does not wonder....is worth a sacrifice of Money for...in exchange for the limitations it puts on Humanity!....Be free in your captivity tied to the house hold!...and when the wife asks to turn off that noise and come to bed....You better listen!....at least your home doing something good, and staying out trouble...you could plead for understanding with allowance for indulging in?...If needs be, to keep it going on?....lol
 
Ok "HDMI Audio tweak" if used along side a external or add on card.....turn it off...could help in that noiseless session (no clicks and pops ).?
 
And watch out for too many shared IRQ's in setting up a system for Music...and it should go well enough.
 
What the curb is, is the computer will not last forever, and redundancy is built in...in time/by time...so it is constantly improving, yet it is not really necessary for living....Thus a luxury of indulgence it truly is...as it does not make music with you or input from the users.
 
But it does more than help us with doing things as a tool...we learn...something in putting our hearts into something that has no limitations...when one follows the theory of music....could be a voice ...could be a electric sound...but it can be art, and art is what makes ideas come to the costing ill will of it all, with the oppressing rule in play....never enough of, to do...is a oppressed state?...see?
 
The cost is the weakest link...remove the cost, which removes your rights to have...and all is not tainted by it anymore, and the oppression and limitation over humanity becomes unbound...when doing Good onto the whole....give and share is where it must go..from the oppressed, to the free and saved....
 
That is true freedom!....sing halehlujah when you find it as so? or as it is!...sing for it then!
 
Be well.
Be Good!
 
And your wife is saying without saying, we are oppressed...can not afford...and so...we suffer the same bondage!...wink