Are audiophile speakers turn on for single women?

audio systems are very inefficient vehicles for impressing women. if that's your objective, you will get more bang for your buck (figuratively and possibly literally) by putting your money into a flashy car. cars are public, so driving a flashy car is a kind of "display" behavior that will get you noticed with little effort.

on the other hand, to impress a woman with your audio system, you've actually got to get her to go *into* your home. well, if you can get a woman to go into your home, then you have already made some impression on her, especially if you don't know her that well. by that point in time, there are already so many other things that would have had to have happened to impress the woman, that the audio system would be peripheral, at best.

for example, if you have a 750 sq. ft. "listening room" with 12 ft. ceilings, then you are probably living in a pretty big house. so your house would have made an impression on the woman before she even walked in the door.

on the other hand, if you are spending huge sums of money on audio equipment that are disproportionate with your surroundings, then the woman is likely to think of you as being a chump. displays of wealth are only effective if they are reasonably accurate indicators of your wealth. if a woman senses that you are stretching yourself to the limit to appear impressive, and you aren't actually as well-off as you might first appear; then she is more likely to think of you as being a fool with your money. that characteristic tends to not impress women so much...

Anthrpomorphize means to attribute human characteristics to creatures that are non-human.

Many of you seem to be imposing male values and tendencies on females in your speculation. Is there a word for that?

Women who are impressed by wealth or demonstrations and indicators thereof probably are gold diggers. If you are trying to impress her thusly, then she may well be your counterpart.

One of the things I've noticed about women and stereo speakers is that they don't like the symmetry that the speakers impose upon their decorating. Secondly, many ladies would prefer not to feature the speakers in the room like you probably do if you're concerned about using them to impress her or anyone else. In general, the whole "audio shrine" is offensive to the female eye.

There is an expression which says that children should be seen and not heard. Most women feel that, conversely, speakers should be heard and not seen.

All this is a roundabout way of saying "NO" to the original question.

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Congrats. That's a very well thought out assessment of how these things work in the real world!

"In general, the whole "audio shrine" is offensive to the female eye"

My friend's wife covered speakers with thick ornamental blanket since they looked "offensive". Sound is very muffled and distant (but is very warm).

12-02-10: Macrojack
Women who are impressed by wealth or demonstrations and indicators thereof probably are gold diggers. If you are trying to impress her thusly, then she may well be your counterpart.

mate selection is, in many regards, a transaction. having money helps in that having money is better than not having money. that doesn't necessarily make the woman a "gold digger", but the reality is, in a transaction, each party is out to get something, so some amount of "trade" is fair. to borrow the words of john galt: "we are all traders in value". there is some truth to that statement although the goods-in-trade are not always (or exclusively) pecuniary.