Women who enjoy quality speakers


In my former marriage i was introduced to high end audio by my husband.

At the time the endless visits to highend shows , meetings and shops annoyed me. Tech talk and not very female friendly designs came and went in my living room.

And although i couldnt get used to all of the above, one thing i learned , how to listen.

Now years further , in my second marriage quality audio wasnt a very well know topic of my husband working in tech. Mediocre cheaper hifi dominated the house, which looked even worse and sounded even a lot worse.

When we talked about new speakers and bang and olufsen was mentioned i knew i had to educate him , to let him know whats on the market and how things can sound.

The revelation ended in buying avalon speakers and simular quality equipement and cables.

Now its up and running i really enjoy music again!

Who would have thought that!

I have never seen a lot of other women enthousiastic about quality sound and music. Are there any in this group? Do your wifes experience the same as i did?

Wishing you all a very musical festive season,

A very happy wife,

Jasmine

djasmine
Well I've had the good fortune of being with the same partner for 46 years this Feb. It was how we met. MUSIC! She lived with her buddies in a condo next to my mothers. I'd visit there would be this great music..

At my mothers urging (she loved to dance) go see whos got the music going.. I did and well MUSIC, dancing and have a good time was the one common thing we shared. As different as night and day, yes we were and still are.. 

BUT when it comes to music, she loves beautiful things, how it looks, how it sounds. She will get up and move your speakers. I've seen it..

She learned the triangle, she can really position for her  listening QUICK.. LOL I got to watch her.. She use to move speakers in "The big stores"
Tugging and pushing 350 - 400 lb speakers, poor sales staff having heart failure.  I always said, mind your manners, that purse, is full of money and a gun.... She's pretty quick with both.... Of course I was kidding. There was no money.. :-) I carried a check book, just like her.

Music and Dancing, what else is there... My Hat on the floor... I slowly walk around the hat to the beat of the music, my faithful pup follows me...
The Missus, keep the beat with her castanets, and the taps on one of her favorite dancing shoes... She is a vision of pure beauty, after close to 7 decades of refinement... She makes my heart beat fast to this day...

Olay.. Tap Tap..  Samba..

Regards, fine people...
I have never seen a lot of other women enthousiastic about quality sound and music. Are there any in this group? Do your wifes experience the same as i did?
My mother in law became something of an ally to my audiophilia some time ago when I was demoing speakrs. She has acute hearing and developed a genuine interest in sound reproduction.,We’ve compared notes on equipment ever since and demo’d together numerous devices through the years!
My wife however is only interested in the music even though she discerns sonic differences very easily and quickly. Proof of the pudding -- a silver foil speaker cable I tried out last week where she spontaneously remarked that the sound had improved, without being aware that anything had changed in the system





Jasmine,
I suspect many men on this site are a bit jealous right now. I think women are very capable of discerning good sound, perhaps even better than their male counterparts. What I don’t understand is why seemingly fewer woman make it a priority to want to take the time and sit down and do any substantial listening. I can recall only one time where my wife asked to listen to a Hamilton CD--she sat in the sweet spot and loved it. She said it sounded better than the live production she heard in Chicago! But she hasn’t been back since. Just don’t get it.
I suspect many men on this site are a bit jealous right now.

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We are creatures of passion. It is the type of music that makes all of us alike, not that sets us apart...Understand the person is to understand the music that person loves.. Not what you think they should like!!

A true partnership is based on no ones leads, but I will always follow and with great respect. My FIL taught me that... You show your respect by understanding and LISTENING, with your eyes....He use to say... Smartest person I ever knew, and the most loved..
Man could he Cha Cha Cha... A klipsch guy too, loved the horns...Corner horns... and valve amps... We have all his 78 collection... Wonderfully preserved..

Regards and with GREAT respect... Scotty
@corelli 
Not wanting to preempt the OP's response to your 'Perplexity' as to why women - in general - do not take the time to sit down to listen to a piece/pieces of music *at home*. 

It is a question of - conditioning - VERY POWERFUL CONDITIONING, as a home-maker, just not to sit about in leasure in ones house(hold) while there are *things* to do, we're learned and trained to do. 

This internalised training makes one most uncomfortable 'wasting time', as other household related things, ALWAYS will feel like to have a far higher priority. 

Being taken out to the opera, theater, or some other out of house venue will break this sort of 'spell' - which often is close to a self admitted kind of OCD behaviour. 

Even for a woman, after the end of a relationship, it is quite difficult to readjust and drop these 'old' habits. 

It's literally like learning how 'watching paint dry' - and believe me, THAT is seriously difficult, once you were trained, and to some degree supported by instinct (nest making), to change. 

I'm speaking from personal experience, 
Michélle 🇿🇦