Where are all the women audiophiles?

[Timcognito]

Many see music, news, memes, movies, basically all entertainment, as a commodity nothing more than that coffee they consume on the way to work. Much of it is free and ubiquitous. Gender may have a role but age of the consumer and social and economic status are big determinates. One of the few exceptions might be vinyl and how it consumed?

 

[krabapple]

It made me think that my priorities are completely different. In a way, she's right. I can imagine the way she uses her system - she probably doesn't sit in front of it to concentrate on music, it's there to provide music when she's doing something else. What good is an audio system which is heavily optimized for ONE sweet spot? Why not an audio system that sounds good no matter where you are? Why not prioritize functionality and convenience?

Anyway, the salesman put together a solution for her using products I have never heard of. She paid for the lot and left.

I'm very curious to know what those products were.

 

[RexrothPigeon]

she probably doesn't sit in front of it to concentrate on music

the number of people who do this is virtually indiscernible from zero

 

[Timcognito]

the number of people who do this is virtually indiscernible from zero

Maybe if you are speaking about the general population, but most ASR members most certainly do sit and and concentrate on music. Whether or not they are "audiophiles" is another matter.

 

[RexrothPigeon]

Maybe if you are speaking about the general population, but most ASR members most certainly do sit and and concentrate on music. Whether or not they are "audiophiles" is another matter.

I am speaking about the general population, of course

 

[antcollinet]

Ha! I like that, i'm going to start using it!

I had to look "bunyip" up.

 

[Sir Sanders Zingmore]

I had to look "bunyip" up.

they are closely related to drop-bears

(Apologies to anyone who objects to my use of an N dash)

 

[RexrothPigeon]

they are closely related to drop-bears

(Apologies to anyone who objects to my use of an N dash)

good sir that is a hyphen

 

[Keith_W]

I'm very curious to know what those products were.

I should go back and ask him. Now that I think about her, I am wondering how I would even begin to put that into my system. It would be sweet to order my system to play a specific recording, or tune to an FM station, or turn itself off. Instead of doing it manually like it's 2010.

 

[DWPress]

I'm glad the em dash thing got sorted. Crazy fact — it's an em dash because it fits on an em which is the square of the type size, a half an "em" is an "n" and these are still referred to as such in advanced word processing apps. Me, I've got tons of them, literally — in lead form.

 

[Ropeburn]

good sir that is a hyphen

Internet and media and advertisers call it a minus.

I really hate it in radio advertisements. "Visit our website at construction minus competence dot com"

 

[Keith_W]

I really hate it in radio advertisements. "Visit our website at construction minus competence dot com"

Good thing this site is not called audio minus science review.

 

[Noske]

Ha! I like that, i'm going to start using it!

So am I. From Wiki:

By the 1850s, bunyip was also used as a "synonym for impostor, pretender, humbug and the like", although this use of the word is now obsolete in Australian English.

 

[Ropeburn]

Good thing this site is not called audio minus science review.

That's exactly what I mean

 

[krabapple]

I should go back and ask him. Now that I think about her, I am wondering how I would even begin to put that into my system. It would be sweet to order my system to play a specific recording, or tune to an FM station, or turn itself off. Instead of doing it manually like it's 2010.

I don't imagine it's very difficult for modern assistant devices (Siri/Alexa/AI) to do this. But I don't do it, so what do I know?

I do let my TV turn my AVR on/off , via HDMI eARC.