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My system has just received the ultimate insult

The girl I have been seeing recently has shown complete indiffrence to my system. (Melos MA-333, Adcom GCD-750, Oddesy Stratus, ML SL3's) Yesterday, I brought up the subject while in my car and she mentioned that she had bought a pair of speakers for $100 that sounded the same. How I wish that were true! I mentioned that she (like others) has no ability to hear or appreciate the difference. She of course disagreed. I said, that is like saying "all people look just about alike and are equally attractive". She again could not see my logic. When we got home, I played a track for her on my $150 sat/sub with a $20 portable CD player and asked her to listen to it. I then played the same track for her on my system and to my amazement, she said it sounded noticable WORSE! She described it as sounding like a radio station that was not tuned properly with lots of static. What I am assuming is that she has never heard a system that had any kind of hi-freq extension and likened it to "static". Others have heard my system and are completely blown away with every aspect of how it sounded. We have much different tastes in the music we listen to. I have 2 questions to ask, 1) is it possible that she could enjoy listening to 'Her' stereo as much as I enjoy listening to mine? 2) may I continue to be involved with her and still have the respect of my peers?

For the record, I listened to it last night after the insult, and it sounded as wonderful and envolving as ever!
pmwoodward
cornfedboy
1,645 posts
 
if this is the most pressing conundrum thus far manifested in your relationship, i'd advise your purchase of an engagement ring. at least a carat. emerald cut. -cfb
avnut
153 posts
 
Hey Bro...play the music not the system. Got It?
tireguy
1,964 posts
 
I'm not sure about that one Kelly, more then one girlfriend has left my life due to her poor taste(not always my choice, but for the better in the end). I would run like the dickens, poor taste is like a bad wine it gets worse with age, if she is suffering from some sort of superiority complex it will get nasty for you, and by that time you will be listening to BOSE, which we all know is a fate worse then death. Let her know audio is important to you, and if she is kidding its cool but if not you need to figure out what the deal is, if she has no respect for what you like she will never respect you. If for what ever reason she doesn’t like/respect your ideas/ opinions/ hobbies remind her that you like her, and normally people with poor-> no taste hold a consistent lack of taste through out life, I believe the Russians call this Nekulturny. Good luck with this highly sensitive situation, just remember one member here had his gear referred to(by his current girlfriend) as electro-smog, needless to say she hit the road with in the week.
drrasta
224 posts
 
Having owned electro"static" speakers for 20 years, I know they're not everyone's cup of tea. They're large (male ego thing), they have a small sweet spot and they sound "different." Keep the music low, light a candle and sip some wine. That'll make your system sound a lot better.
cornfedboy
1,645 posts
 
tim: please try to remember that i'm old enuf to be your dad. what the hell, maybe your granddad. as you know, i've been married to the same woman for damn near 35 years now. my bride and i have been able to suffer one another for all that time by recognizing the difference between what's really important and what we may think is important for the moment. children are important. parents are important. love is important. even music is important. but in the universe of values, beliefs and yearnings, your audio system, at any given time, is but one of a million, billion, trillion stars. it's a lucky astronomer, indeed, who might detect it. and one more fortunate still who can appreciate its relative luminescence. -cfb
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