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Where are all the women audiophiles?

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EJ3 said:
I would never voluntarily live in a city.
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I've lived in the country, hell, I grew up there, but as an adult I've lived in cities of 5m, 2m, and 10m people, and that's the life for me. Life without easy access to authentic food from 20+ different cultures would make me very sad.
 
That women are not interested in tech is bull****. They just do look at it otherwise and are less prone to come to fora like this where they are very often bullied off (here it's ok, most fora not).

My girlfriend is a tech nerd and coder (for profession), and does read this site but does not has an account. Next to the fact that her english is bad (she is from French-Algerian origin), entering such a world as a female is exposing yourself to a lot of hatred and misogyny, and especially if you're a woman of colour with a muslim background like her. And the chance you're taken seriously is small, very small. I hear the same from other women (even white european) that i know that are very technical. They read the fora, but don't participate in most cases.

btw: my girlfriend has a ASR approved style setup, a pair of JBL 4367 + custom diy subs (18sound 18" woofers in sealed cabients) with since short a pair of Apollon Purifi based amps for the top and Hypex ncore for the subs, all controlled by a MiniDSP FLex + Dirac as preamp and a older macbook as streamer. For many women this won't fit in the decor, but she does not care about it, she cares about good sound and music and looks is secondary. For many women this is not the case, there the clichés are often true. But that women are not technical and don't care about this, that is a very sexist cliché that is not true.
 
Most men are not technical either, and the same applies to most "audiophiles", they know nothing or very little of the tech behind home hi-fi.
What many "audiophiles" think and do is that being an audiophile is, is to swap gear(amps, speakers, dac´s or whatever) every so often under the illusion, created by the industry and marketing rep´s in magazines or internet, that they are improving the quality of the gear and the sound with each swap.
Men like gear (=toys), most women not so much and/or do not care.
 
Waxx said:
That women are not interested in tech is bull****. They just do look at it otherwise and are less prone to come to fora like this where they are very often bullied off (here it's ok, most fora not).

My girlfriend is a tech nerd and coder (for profession), and does read this site but does not has an account. Next to the fact that her english is bad (she is from French-Algerian origin), entering such a world as a female is exposing yourself to a lot of hatred and misogyny, and especially if you're a woman of colour with a muslim background like her. And the chance you're taken seriously is small, very small. I hear the same from other women (even white european) that i know that are very technical. They read the fora, but don't participate in most cases.

btw: my girlfriend has a ASR approved style setup, a pair of JBL 4367 + custom diy subs (18sound 18" woofers in sealed cabients) with since short a pair of Apollon Purifi based amps for the top and Hypex ncore for the subs, all controlled by a MiniDSP FLex + Dirac as preamp and a older macbook as streamer. For many women this won't fit in the decor, but she does not care about it, she cares about good sound and music and looks is secondary. For many women this is not the case, there the clichés are often true. But that women are not technical and don't care about this, that is a very sexist cliché that is not true.
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Feel free to tell your girlfriend from me, that after a (pre retirement) near 40 year career in the electronics industry, without exception, every female engineer I've ever worked with was a better engineer than the average of all the male engineers - and most of them significantly so. Furthermore, they were typically far better as team players - which for a project manager is often a more important skill set than raw engineering talent.
 
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Feel free to tell your girlfriend from me, that after a (pre retirement) near 40 year career in the electronics industry, without exception, every female engineer I've ever worked with was a better engineer than the average of all the male engineers - and most of them significantly so. Furthermore, they were typically far better as team players - which for a project manager is often a more important skill set than raw engineering talent.
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I feel that with any professional, doctor, dentist, lawyer etc etc. Women have a tougher time getting there than men, so those that do make it I think are actually better than the men they beat to get there.

S.
 
RexrothPigeon said:
I've lived in the country, hell, I grew up there, but as an adult I've lived in cities of 5m, 2m, and 10m people, and that's the life for me. Life without easy access to authentic food from 20+ different cultures would make me very sad.
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Agree with this. We could up and leave London tomorrow, but for all my moans about this manic, fast place lifestyle, I find myself missing it when we are away for a long time. A huge place in the country sounds appealing, and it would be great for my other hobby (mtb), but my God, there are few places on earth with as much to offer as this, and its all on my doorstep.

Running Dirac is a longer process when interrupted by the odd, badly timed vehicle or plane above!!! But I can cope with that.
 
Waxx said:
That women are not interested in tech is bull****. They just do look at it otherwise and are less prone to come to fora like this where they are very often bullied off (here it's ok, most fora not).

My girlfriend is a tech nerd and coder (for profession), and does read this site but does not has an account. Next to the fact that her english is bad (she is from French-Algerian origin), entering such a world as a female is exposing yourself to a lot of hatred and misogyny, and especially if you're a woman of colour with a muslim background like her. And the chance you're taken seriously is small, very small. I hear the same from other women (even white european) that i know that are very technical. They read the fora, but don't participate in most cases.

btw: my girlfriend has a ASR approved style setup, a pair of JBL 4367 + custom diy subs (18sound 18" woofers in sealed cabients) with since short a pair of Apollon Purifi based amps for the top and Hypex ncore for the subs, all controlled by a MiniDSP FLex + Dirac as preamp and a older macbook as streamer. For many women this won't fit in the decor, but she does not care about it, she cares about good sound and music and looks is secondary. For many women this is not the case, there the clichés are often true. But that women are not technical and don't care about this, that is a very sexist cliché that is not true.
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Pretty sure she would be looked after here if she did want to post and join in the, ahem, fun. I would welcome her with open arms.
 
4-Channels on 35mm = One Dude & Ten Chicks!

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Ain't that the truth!
 
Just for fun, let's look at the original question from a different angle: Why aren't there more men in certain areas?

Walk into a Michael's craft store, and if you are a guy unaccompanied by a woman, you're going to feel a bit odd.

Browsing the aisles of Target can be fun: My local store has a section devoted to "man care" products. But something seems off if you need rugged product names like "campfire smoke", along with images of The Rock just to sell soap to guys - c'mon, it's soap for heaven's sake.
 
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EJ3 said:
I was somewhere a long time ago and they had candles that (intentionally) smelled like burning tires when you lit them (so maybe you could get the Drag Strip starting line vibe?).
Somehow I would think: that inside anyone's home, that would be a "No Go".
And I really enjoy being at the 60 ft line at the drag strip.
Maybe it was a gag gift, as I have never seen them anywhere else.
Imagine, you give someone one of these candles, they take it home and decide to create "ambiance" by lighting it...
I suspect that you would be hearing from them and not in a friendly way.
If you ever were friends, that ship just sailed.
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As a kid, I thought gasoline smelled really good, until it made me nauseous.
 
Wonder if a fundamental problem of the hifi hobby is that it's dominated by guys eager to share what they "know", but not so good at listening and considering alternative points of view :p One such example is when an new member expresses interest in "vinyls", and almost immediately, there are comments about how phonograph records are a sonically inferior medium, or recommendations of "real" turntables. But no one asks what their hopes might be, or shuts up long enough to let them speak their mind.
 
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