Hehe. My wife is a nerd but a total non-gamer. She's a book reading nerd. Obnoxious noises annoy the hell out of her... and I'm an experimental musician who creates strange and annoying noises and wierd chaotic musical (or non-musical) instruments for a hobby. Go figure.
We have a tentative agreement. I don't work on my music or sonic sculptures/musiq concrete/noise music while she's home. A lot of my devices have no headphone plugs so they have to be reccorded with microphone unfortunately. I can use headphones for most stuff.. but it just doesn't feel right. I like the surround sound in this music room. It's nicer than headphones.
I think what I'm going to do is simply FIND that sound file, use my audio editor and quiet it down or save another wav file in it's place.