I think part of the problem is trying to determine this by whether someone posts on a chat board. Most of the folks here in my experience are pretty helpful, and if anything, anti-bragging/bling, but the one upsmanship of the high end is tiring to me, and i expect that most women --call me sexist--would find it very typical male behavior. We are, after all, a bunch of geeks, right? So, is it possible that there are women audiophiles who don’t have a need to plug in constantly on a board like this one? (I get the social aspect of this, and generally enjoy it, I don’t think web fora are exclusively male by any means, but I could also see how "gear talk" might be a drag, I dunno). I’ve met women in all kinds of professions that you’d think of as traditionally male-dominated- racing car drivers- Denise McCluggage, who won Sebring back in 1961 or so; one of our family friends is a very highly ranked military officer with all the bells and whistles and I’d trust her with my life; I’m not "PC" but the Internet stays with you forever, so folks tend to be a little more circumspect, I think. As to CZ, he made a remark a few years ago that I took issue with, but my experience with CZ on the board is that he is basically OK. I miss Elizabeth too. Does anyone know what’s up w/her? Is she OK?
PS: raise your hand if I told you this (nursing home rules), but the first time my now wife visited my place when we were dating, she said, "Oh Quads." I had a pair of Quad ’57s as my midrange speaker at the time. How the hell did she know that? She worked part time for a mad audiophile, Chuck Lamonica, a well known "food photographer" in NY whose studio was also audio shipping and receiving. We became very good friends with Chuck and his wife as a couple; sadly, Chuck passed away in 1991, but my wife and I have been together 30 years now. She is not an audiophile, but a pretty tolerant individual. I say this in part because having to live with me would probably drive most people crazy.
