(My daugh­ter is a beauty — but she is not Danish.)

I’m refer­ring to the Bang & Olufsen speaker in the photo (the large speaker in front of Rachel). The local Good­will had a pair for about $45. Cur­rently, the cheap­est pair of their speak­ers goes for about $700.

I nipped them up. Brought them home. Heather freaked out. “They are too big!”

I took them back.

Oh well, all dreams can’t come true. Their size would have over­whelmed my office. (One of my cur­rent, and reign­ing, speak­ers is shown for scale, next to the B & O speaker and Rachel.) And they would have required some spe­cial con­nec­tors to work with my computer’s stereo — at the tune of an addi­tional $32.

Sigh.