famousmockingbird;4683849 [URL="http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/7427/the-largest-vinyl-record-collection-in-the-world" said:
Fine if you have warehouses. It's more impressive in a std 2 bed house where you walk between floor to ceiling stacks to get around the house.
I've been turning my lady into an enthusiast. Sat with her and pointed out differences that a resolving system makes. And good recordings also having little or no compression.
She was used to her desktop system with Anthony Gallo sats and on board DAC which wasn't all that bad even before adding my ex-dac moon 100D, still far from hifi but nice. That and the usual small media devices with less than desirable chip sets. She catches on fast. I'm sure her being a big music buff like myself keeps her intrigued. Its fun to explain things to her then later seeing she gets it when she getting excited she found a certain nuances in music. More than anything its nice to just listen with her and enjoy the artists. Music is one of the best things to have in common with your significant other for the countless obvious reasons
She was used to her desktop system with Anthony Gallo sats and on board DAC which wasn't all that bad even before adding my ex-dac moon 100D, still far from hifi but nice. That and the usual small media devices with less than desirable chip sets. She catches on fast. I'm sure her being a big music buff like myself keeps her intrigued. Its fun to explain things to her then later seeing she gets it when she getting excited she found a certain nuances in music. More than anything its nice to just listen with her and enjoy the artists. Music is one of the best things to have in common with your significant other for the countless obvious reasons
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Gimp, that is exactly the kind of live music I love to see/hear. My wife does as well, to get back to topic- we are acoustic strings and vocals addicts.
I have a weakness for Buddy Ebsen doing the Appalachian step dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH9zmMBJ_Yw
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Here's my reference system, with a John Statz song playing. It almost sounded like he was live in my kitchen.
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There are also very few women in my line of work - show/TV/movie/live sound technicians. I don't know why. I do see a good number come out of school all fired up, usually about lighting design, but they don't last. Those who stay in the business tend to go into sales, logistics and admin, where they do quite well. No idea why more women don't become career technicians. Perhaps they have better sense.
There are also very few women in my line of work - show/TV/movie/live sound technicians. I don't know why. I do see a good number come out of school all fired up, usually about lighting design, but they don't last. Those who stay in the business tend to go into sales, logistics and admin, where they do quite well. No idea why more women don't become career technicians. Perhaps they have better sense.
On TV, I see a lot of woman working at scientific institution, but not much at technological companies, except software...
Perhaps you are just looking in the wrong places.. I work for a large Dutch healthcare electronics manufacturer and within my own business group there are dozens of women engineers, software, systems, SQE, validation and various other areas. They constitute about 50% of the engineering staff in my group.
This question has always interested me. I've never heard an answer of any value. I don't have one either.
Many say that its due to the fact that women do not have a predisposition to the mechanical and electronics aspect of it. Guys like to take the radio apart, girls don't and so on. This sounds plausible, but it doesn't work for me. There are actually a decent number of female programmers, gamers and mechanics.
Still, I get it, women don't salivate over the beauty of a speaker with the grill removed or the work of art that many turntables are visually.
However, the real reason audiophiles spend so much money on stereo equipment is due to the euphoric internal experience when listening to high end sound. Experiencing sound in this way requires depth and musical intelligence. I'm a classically trained musician and I've never heard anyone of substance refer to the love of music or sound as an indicator of poor intelligence. So the, "women are smarter" argument is just silly, please stop.
The other part of the equation is that only a very small percentage of people are actual audiophiles. My business requires me to travel a lot and I have yet to see another traveler pull out a rig with audiophile grade headphones and a portable amp or hi res dap. Your out there, I know, I'm one of you, but we only know that there are others mostly due to the internet. Audiophiles are rare.
I've worked for 3 different audio stores and have been an opera singer for many years. Even most of the people I have encountered in these industries are not audiophiles.
So, that really makes a female audiophile rare. 1% or .001%? I just made up those numbers, but they are probably too high.
We've already established that woman have better hearing yes? But its really not about one's hearing sensitivity. There is something that I have observed in my time as an audiophile and employee of stereo shops. There is a listening or hearing intelligence separate from sensitivity.
Example: If you have worked in car audio, you know that, inexplicably, there are many customers who can't even tell when a speaker clips! To us this is fingernails on the chalkboard. To sum, they don't even detect it. Guess what? Time to warranty out the blown sub again (picture smoking voice coils and exploding diaphragms, lol.
The next stage that is required to be an audiophile is not only to hear the difference, but to love it. Not like it, love it. The reason we break down the subtleties and nuances of a sound system's performance is due to the joy that it gives us when brilliant sound is achieved. How else can we put in words the realism of speaker produces if not to define words such as sibilance and transparency. It all stems from the need to communicate the quality of the sound we hear. And, we want to communicate it because we love it.
Music yes, but also sound itself can bring an audiophile to mystical places. There is a certain state of consciousness an individual must be able to attain before the joy of the experience can be realized.
I do not doubt that woman are capable of the same or greater listening IQ.
That's why I'm still left wondering why they aren't as passionate about audio. It's not due to exposure, us men do that. We try don't we. We know what we're up against, that they will probably not be into it, but us men try, we have to at least expose our significant others to the opportunity to let sound create joy. We want them to feel the love of sound as we do.
But, for the most part, women just don't.
So, the question still remains. And I will keep asking it.
Many say that its due to the fact that women do not have a predisposition to the mechanical and electronics aspect of it. Guys like to take the radio apart, girls don't and so on. This sounds plausible, but it doesn't work for me. There are actually a decent number of female programmers, gamers and mechanics.
Still, I get it, women don't salivate over the beauty of a speaker with the grill removed or the work of art that many turntables are visually.
However, the real reason audiophiles spend so much money on stereo equipment is due to the euphoric internal experience when listening to high end sound. Experiencing sound in this way requires depth and musical intelligence. I'm a classically trained musician and I've never heard anyone of substance refer to the love of music or sound as an indicator of poor intelligence. So the, "women are smarter" argument is just silly, please stop.
The other part of the equation is that only a very small percentage of people are actual audiophiles. My business requires me to travel a lot and I have yet to see another traveler pull out a rig with audiophile grade headphones and a portable amp or hi res dap. Your out there, I know, I'm one of you, but we only know that there are others mostly due to the internet. Audiophiles are rare.
I've worked for 3 different audio stores and have been an opera singer for many years. Even most of the people I have encountered in these industries are not audiophiles.
So, that really makes a female audiophile rare. 1% or .001%? I just made up those numbers, but they are probably too high.
We've already established that woman have better hearing yes? But its really not about one's hearing sensitivity. There is something that I have observed in my time as an audiophile and employee of stereo shops. There is a listening or hearing intelligence separate from sensitivity.
Example: If you have worked in car audio, you know that, inexplicably, there are many customers who can't even tell when a speaker clips! To us this is fingernails on the chalkboard. To sum, they don't even detect it. Guess what? Time to warranty out the blown sub again (picture smoking voice coils and exploding diaphragms, lol.
The next stage that is required to be an audiophile is not only to hear the difference, but to love it. Not like it, love it. The reason we break down the subtleties and nuances of a sound system's performance is due to the joy that it gives us when brilliant sound is achieved. How else can we put in words the realism of speaker produces if not to define words such as sibilance and transparency. It all stems from the need to communicate the quality of the sound we hear. And, we want to communicate it because we love it.
Music yes, but also sound itself can bring an audiophile to mystical places. There is a certain state of consciousness an individual must be able to attain before the joy of the experience can be realized.
I do not doubt that woman are capable of the same or greater listening IQ.
That's why I'm still left wondering why they aren't as passionate about audio. It's not due to exposure, us men do that. We try don't we. We know what we're up against, that they will probably not be into it, but us men try, we have to at least expose our significant others to the opportunity to let sound create joy. We want them to feel the love of sound as we do.
But, for the most part, women just don't.
So, the question still remains. And I will keep asking it.
As much as any of us can understand anyone else's motivation or lack thereof for sharing / talking to death our own passionate past-times, haven't you pretty much answered your own questions?
Unfortunately not, instead I just established that I am clueless to the answer just like everyone else, Albeit, perhaps a bit overly verbose in doing so.
The purpose of talking to death this subject is because part of me thinks someone has to know. The imbalance is just so dramatic, 100 guy-hifis to 1 girl-hifis.
And, I wanted to address and negate the most common responses while at the same time refreshing the same question. I guess I'm hoping for greater consideration and/or a little more depth to the responses.
Or, maybe I'm hoping to find the perfect woman who is feminine but loves football and constructing 4th order crossover networks, lol.
Or, maybe I'm just a pompous jerk who likes to hear himself talk.
well, the last sentence could apply to most of us here - which might explain the dearth of distaff* members of our "club of like-minded folks"
*a term which contains its own gender bias / condescension
*a term which contains its own gender bias / condescension
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