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Speakers Women Like

Another discussion asked whether there were any women audiophiles, like males who knit, they exist, but are hard to find. I am interested in "stereo" types (i.e. types of people who like stereo music), but not judgements and I love hearing about what other listeners get out of music.

So my question for the women listeners and readers here is, what speakers do you like, maybe what headphones and what make you scratch your head and go "you’ve got to be kidding me? "  Do you think it's about hearing, or culture? Are you all about the big double bass in a Jazz quartet, or the Chinese erhu? What makes you feel at home with audiophiles, what makes you feel your by yourself?

Any other information about how you got there, like whether you play music, or like a certain genre. Please, we’re all ears.

Erik
erik_squires
mcanaday
169 posts
 
For headphones:  Mr. Speakers with Schiit gear.  


rpeluso
1,035 posts
 
My live-in girlfriend at the time was head over heels for Focal and then we heard Vandersteen 5As and those are the ones I bought.  She loved them as much as I did/do.  "My girlfriend's not here any more but my Vandy's are". 
kazuist
25 posts
 
Vivid Giya 
erik_squires OP
16,004 posts
 
Don,

I don't have invisible speakers and all the ladies who've listened love them.  Honestly I think lots has to do with the quality of the speakers. My audiophile friends don't love my speakers that much either, but music producing friends do. There's something going on about sound quality, women's hearing and audiophile trends.

In the case of size though, I'm with the women.  We all dream of palatial listening rooms, but little annoys me more than seeing guys put two giant speakers at the end of what looks like a shoe closet.  I mean, come on! Live within your means. :)  The only thing that annoys me more is Michael Fremer complaining about his room not having deep bass and not doing anything about it.  Boom. ;-)

Also, I rend in modest spaces.  Not tiny, but speakers for me are going to have to be small foot print, and small space speakers. If a speaker needs 5' on either side to sound good it's not going to be for me.

Best,


Erik
wolf_garcia
6,677 posts
 
Not sure if this fits, but as a live sound mixer working mostly "folkie" and jazz shows, I've noticed that many successful professional female performers (as compared to novice musicians performing as opening acts) are much more concerned than most male performers about the technical aspects of getting the sound to conform to their standards…which I really enjoy because it's refreshing. Often I've had women call out specific frequency tweaks from the stage during sound check, and I've learned over the years to anticipate monitor settings that appeal to more female performers…yeah, I can learn things! (amazingly)…not all successful musicians are technically savvy enough to ever care much about this stuff, and that's fine with me, but I give props to performers who DO care as well as ones who leave it all up to me. It's interesting that musicians I end up working with multiple times do tend to leave things up to me eventually as they assume I know what I'm doing (ha…fooled 'em again).
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