Grow a pair and tell her straight up what you did... own it man it's your life too!
Thankyou all for your input.
So I followed Sixstring's advice and firmly fessed up. Thankyou Sixstring for bringing me to my senses.
Although I'm still tweaking, I can report that a Rochtron Velocity 300 + 2 Atomic passives have more than enough power to sonically fill the Garden shed in which I now live.