Lack of Female Representation

My wife has a different ear than I do, I have a different sense of rhythm than she does, she has a different affinity for lyrics, I have a different understanding of context. There are things we value in each other's taste and knowledge. None of this is because I am a man or she is a woman, but because we are different people with different upbringings, experiences and personalities. I watched my engineer father berate my musician mother my whole life, and I don't raise my son to speak to or of anyone that way. I would love to say humans are well beyond the need to generalize and assign each other stereotypes based on gender or race, but when reading through this thread and a few others, I see there probably wont be much advancement until those mentalities who refuse to evolve simply expire.

Please don't encourage them into the hobby. My time listening to music is first the thorough enjoyment of the music and the very close second is not having to be in the room with my wife. My wife could not tell the difference between am radio and my reference system. Same way she cant tell the difference between 4k, 1080p, or analog tube tv. Some have and some will tell me she can but she doesn't care. I will challenge you on that maybe, as soon as i find something she does care about other than bitching every second.

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@au_lait 

+1 and you could have ended your post with a "mic drop"! Thank you for posting.

@sgreg1


Your wife's attorney is holding for you on line one....

I called this thread to my girlfriend's attention.  Want to comment I asked?  "No".  So I will speak for her.  Put words into her mouth.  I am allowed to do this with Audio.  She doesn't care.

I have met "Audiophile" women.  Walk the walk, talk the talk  type of Audiophiles.   Knew equipment, manufactures, specs... 12ax7, 6550 made sense to them.  Very very few.

My girlfriend loves music.   She CAN nitpick sound better than I.  Does not know that terminology.  But notices, Why does ______ sounds so and so? Glory hallelujah  she noticed amongst other things the string bass sounded better than the old speakers.  Ultimately does not care.  Most women don't care about the "hobby".  She/they are more about what they look like.  Organization.  Keep the speakers out of her way.  Little apartment, I can appreciate that one.  She's not one to sit and concentrate on the presentation.  She's doing other things while the music plays.  Most of the time I do the same.  It's playing right now while I'm typing this.  While very few women do indulge in audio like we do.  Most don't care. Men and Women.  What come out of their smart phones is just fine.