Audiophile demographics?

Why are there a disproportional number of male audiophiles?

Maybe, just maybe, women are too intelligent to buy into, what a person has to buy into, in order to be considered an 'audiophile'.

examples:  hearing wire and fuses.  Claiming LPs are superior to CDs, claiming every amp in creation has it's own distinct sound, directional arrows on interconnects   etc......

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@rok2id


I think you mean women are less gullible. Intelligence is not a huge factor. Many smart people are gullible.

@rok2id,

’Maybe, just maybe, women are too intelligent to buy into, what a person has to buy into, in order to be considered an ’audiophile’.’


Women usually have a different and more complex relationship with their biology than men do. Hence men tend to indulge in flights of fantasy rather more than women who get regular periodic reminders of reality.

Whether this is a good or a bad thing can depend upon one’s outlook or the use this indulging is being out to.

Can you imagine a woman stressing over cable differences? Or getting into a debate over amplifier topology?

There has been a very clever economically fuelled movement over the past 70 years to get women to behave as if they were men.

Thankfully, for both sexes, it can never fully succeed.

tomcy6      11-27-2020 at 12:27pm 

Most women are not interested in audiophile gear because they are not interested, period.  
If women were interested in audio but didn't like the way men do audio, they could get together with other women and talk about audio or listen to music.  There is no one keeping them from enjoying better audio.  

Women (non-audiophile) don't have any choice in the audio world. Non-a'phile (men & women) can't hear un-natural sound of hi-fi audio and all audio system in the world sound un-natural and veiled. Listening un-natural sounds is painful to non-a'philes' ears. Alex/Wavetouch audio