Why are there no female Audiophiles?

[Timcognito]

Ask me any question about women. My answer from years on earth; I don't know why they do not do, or do things.

 

[Astoneroad]

Yet females go ga ga over $4000 handbags (look at the stitching, feel the quality of the leather, OMG) and other expensive accoutrements... does nothing for me... so each to their own.

Yeah but our stuff is really cool... and theirs... theirs is for girls.

 

[fatoldgit]

*raises hand*

So its all nondescript, black, laboratory grade folded steel boxes for you?

Peter

 

[Sokel]

I know a couple but judging by my wife when she sees me typing on ASR or measuring stuff:

 

[fpitas]

So its all nondescript, black, laboratory grade folded steel boxes for you?

Peter

I'm fine with that. Everything tucks in the 19" rack. I mean, it's just electronics. No need to look all Flash Gordon.

 

[fatoldgit]

Ask me any question about women. My answer from years on earth; I don't know why they do not do, or do things.

So we have a large expanse of outdoor decking which I keep immaculate. Yet her in doors cant understand why I spend vast amounts of time and energy keeping them pristine.

To her, a deck is just for walking on.

One of many examples of the great divide between the male and female species.

Peter

 

[fatoldgit]

I know a couple but judging by my wife when she sees me typing on ASR or measuring stuff:


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I always love doing frequency sweeps in my room, even if I dont need to.....just to get that WTF look from her and reinforce, in her mind, that I should be committed to a padded cell somewhere, given drugs and physiological counselling to help me over come my obvious deep seated issues.

Peter

 

[droid2000]

I always love doing frequency sweeps in my room, even if I dont need to.....just to get that WTF look from her and reinforce, in her mind, that I should be committed to a padded cell somewhere, given drugs and physiological counselling to help me over come my obvious deep seated issues.

Peter

My wife loves the little chirp REW makes for timing reference. She starts imitating it and screws up my measurements.

 

[Shiva]

Well, I know one. I refer to her as the Martha Stewart of audio. Her name is Terry, of AVShowrooms.

 

[JeffS7444]

Also looks almost exclusively white, too.

A hypothesis that I pulled out of thin air: Maybe a major factor of whether you will be a hifi fan or not, depends on whether you had positive exposure to hifi in your formative years. And I'd guess that most higher-end shops have tended to be concentrated in predominately white areas. As for the gender divide, at least in the 1970s, whew, sexism in the way stuff was promoted could be pretty blatant, it got toned down a lot in the 1980s, but in the hifi world, there's still a tendency for females to be treated as decorative objects.

 

[Chrispy]

I wouldn't say there are none, just very few....but have run into a few here and there in groups and fora. Definitely mostly a sausage fest, tho.

 

[Ken1951]

My wife helped me choose the speakers in my main rig and had strong opinions. We listen together when schedules allow. But never in a million years would she post on a board about audio equipment; she has said to me before: what is the point about talking about listening? Awfully pragmatic comment for her.

My wife went with me to choose all our speakers. She cares about having good sound and we both care about how they look as well. She doesn't care about electronics other than that they work and don't break, just like me. Fiddling with equipment, or even caring about it, it's not a thing for the very vast majority of the populace whatever the gender.

 

[raif71]

Like it or not, men drive the hifi world

 

[CarbonMakerU]

Think how boring a world it would be if everyone liked the same things. You do you and let others do the same and the world goes around so much smoother.

 

[Deleted member 21219]

You’ll find more women in the IEM market than any of big speaker market multiplied by ten. They prefer discreet and small/cute IEMs

This ^^

If you view the world through stereotypical glasses, all you will see are stereotypical results.

Jim

 

[BrokenEnglishGuy]

I was talking to a friend-woman engineer about speakers, everything was fun until i told the prices

Prices are just stupid xD, the conversation end

 

[raif71]

I was talking to a friend-woman engineer about speakers, everything was fun until i told the prices

Prices are just stupid xD, the conversation end

Men would end the conversation too about handbag prices if/when told

 

[LTig]

 

[BrokenEnglishGuy]

Men would end the conversation too about handbag prices if/when told

As far as i know, she doesn't have any of these expensive handbag... instead she has a huge ford lol

 

[ahofer]

My wife’s very practical. But she wants a Goyard Bag. Weird. Some woven plastic for $2k.