Why Don't More People Love Audio?

Related question, surely debated around here: where are the women? Their hearing is better than ours, that's known biology. And this hobby is what, 95% male?

I've been to several audio shows out of state, and it's a depressing sausage fest. Most pax are old, fat, white guys. Wearing pleated pants and $4 bargain bin short sleeves, even whilst peddling big buck equipment...the humanity.

Both those topics, the gender aspect and the utter lack of professional appearance and/or interest in physical health are worth separate threads. At least for the popcorn factor, watching y'all blow a gasket over what I wrote.

Maybe I've stumbled over the connection why there are so few women in this hobby...look around.

I'm an endurance athlete, and spend countless hours with my rig; they're not incompatible. My gut doesn't hang over my belt, nor will it ever (and I'm pushing 50). Get yourself a pair of Fluevogs and work from the ground up.

Thank me now or later, either fine.

In the early '80s I first saw the internet used for the first time. Being a professor soon I had the ability to use it to communicate with colleagues in other colleges. Then I got the ability to use dial up at home. Then one could buy a tiny music storage device with earbuds. Also coming along we computer games and cellphones.

Audio is relaxing, which is the last thing the present culture encourages. Swinfrey and Scott W, you both seem ill-adjusted to contemporary culture. I have been at reproducing music at home since the early 1960s. I know that my culture is now passe and soon will be the case for the baby boomers. I remember when television first came and when I first saw a football gave involving the Chicago Bears versus ? Football used to be less import than basketball and certain baseball.

Scott w, women have always been far less common among audiophiles. Presently I know one and over the years have known of perhaps twenty. I have always asked women audiophiles how they got involved. An audiophile father is often the reason.

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Different strokes for different folks.
No sense in getting offended or attempting to look down on others because they don't want to come to your party.
They are having their own parties and apparently it's working just fine for them.
Live and let live.

Probably they got tired, trying to find which is better, of the following, and gave up:
1. Tubes or Solid State
2. Digital or Analog
And maybe recently:
PCM or DSD
:-)))

EVERYBODY at the superbowl party commented on how much they enjoyed the halftime show with Katy Perry, Lenny Kravitz, and that other woman. "That was terrific!" ... "Oooooo!" ... "Awesome!" ... Brought to us via POS speakers from somewhere inside the TV no less. I just rolled my eyes and staggered into the kitchen for more bean dip, my audiophile heart crushed to bits.