The distaff side

[DavidEdwinAston]

I hope that it isn't impolite to ask if any members reflect my position of not having met any females who were interested in HiFi?
Music, certainly, but not the artificial way to listen to it best.

 

[DanielT]

You can ask:

Multiple Amp Questions

Thanks for your time in advance for whatever you can answer. 1. Does Amir do any measurement for speaker amps that explains how much hiss I can expect to hear from a passive speaker when playing nothing? Do I look at power vs distortion and look at THD% for 50mW? I look at the graph below me an...

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I do not know if it interests her. She is probably more interested in talking about Hifi itself. Can I guess.If I were you, I would not have asked her that question.

 

[Beershaun]

In my experience interest hifi/audiophile correlates with a person's interests in technology and being curious about how things work and are put together. Not about whether they like music or not. So I'm not too surprised there are less women interested as there are less women interested in going into engineering fields.

My wife greatly appreciates the end results. In fact she can here the differences better than I can. She has no interest in all the different boxes though and why I need them. She is a former engineer who became an artist.

 

[DanielT]

In my experience interest hifi/audiophile correlates with a person's interests in technology and being curious about how things work and are put together. Not about whether they like music or not. So I'm not too surprised there are less women interested as there are less women interested in going into engineering fields.

My wife greatly appreciates the end results. In fact she can here the differences better than I can. She has no interest in all the different boxes though and why I need them. She is a former engineer who became an artist.

General women and technology, gender distribution in Sweden, applicable engineering degree

The proportion of women who take an engineering degree is steadily increasing and more and more engineering specializations are getting an even gender distribution. But the variation is big. There are also specializations where women are few and far between. It shows a new analysis.

It probably differs very much between different countries.

Jämn könsfördelning på allt fler ingenjörsinriktningar

Andelen kvinnor som tar ingenjörsexamen ökar stadigt och allt fler ingenjörsinriktningar får jämn könsfördelning. Men variationen är stor. Det visar en ny analys.

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[Beershaun]

General women and technology, gender distribution in Sweden, applicable engineering degree

The proportion of women who take an engineering degree is steadily increasing and more and more engineering specializations are getting an even gender distribution. But the variation is big. There are also specializations where women are few and far between. It shows a new analysis.

It probably differs very much between different countries.

Jämn könsfördelning på allt fler ingenjörsinriktningar

Andelen kvinnor som tar ingenjörsexamen ökar stadigt och allt fler ingenjörsinriktningar får jämn könsfördelning. Men variationen är stor. Det visar en ny analys.

www.ingenjoren.se

Agree. It is not because of gender. It is because of cultural and historical roles, biases, and actions that have discouraged women from pursuing these interests. That said, I do also think there are some general genetic predispositions in male and female genders if we look and the general population differences in behaviors between young boys and young girls. They have different behavior patterns on average. Don't take that to mean "all" just statistical average.

 

[Tom C]

My mother’s sister, God rest her soul, was the only one I can think of that I have personally known. There have been a few who have participated in this forum, but just a handful.

 

[Tom C]

There are physical gender differences in human brains, that occur in utero. There are functional differences that can be mapped with advanced MRI techniques. Studies have been done that show different parts of the brain are active in men vs. women when listening to music, for example. Particularly since the differences hold across cultures, it doesn’t follow that the differences are purely cultural and learned.

 

[Katji]

There are a few here - like 2 or 3 at least.
Bear in mind that like any forum, only about 1 in 10 members are active as in communicating, speaking. Or less than that.

Why Aren't There Female Audiophiles? | https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/why-arent-there-female-audiophiles.23325/
Note that the thread was closed. A disgrace.

 

[Beershaun]

Agree. It is not because of gender. It is because of cultural and historical roles, biases, and actions that have discouraged women from pursuing these interests. That said, I do also think there are some general genetic predispositions in male and female genders if we look and the general population differences in behaviors between young boys and young girls. They have different behavior patterns on average. Don't take that to mean "all" just statistical average.

I'll add my mother is the one who got me interested in audio when I was a boy. She is more tech interested than my father. She owned and ran a ballet school and so she would pick, purchase, and install all the audio equipment for each studio in her school. She brought that expertise home and so we always had a very nice whole home audio system at home as well. My father also enjoyed it but didn't have the same level of understanding of the equipment as my mom does. Just recently in fact I remotely helped her piece together a stereo system for her condo. She bought a pair of Elac dbr62s based on listening to my pair and the reviews on this site. Then went out on her own and found an old reciever and cd player at Goodwill. I helped her via Zoom hook it all up so she can now listen to her cds and her TV through the receiver. She loves it and is very happy with it. I helped her but she is the one who wired it all up and had the patience and understanding to work through connecting everything together properly.

 

[Prana Ferox]

I don't know why you don't think there are that many. Stereophile and similar magazines are littered with tales of women running in from the kitchen to say they could hear the veil-lifting a room away.

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

And in fairness Prana, on the recent Wilson Tiny Tots thread, we are told that it was females who chose the speakers for a couple of the respondents!

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

Also, "running in from the kitchen"! How dare they, don't they know their place!

 

[DanielT]

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[Fregly]

Also, "running in from the kitchen"! How dare they, don't they know their place!

They only get to the end of the chain attached to the stove, so no worries.

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

I have been reading this thread to my Missus and she has just given me a very wry look.
Possibly my bed time!

 

[DanielT]

Play a nice song then everything will be fine.

Edit:
No it is not demeaning to women, so no feminist waffle now.We are all adults hear so we (like her) know what it's about.

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

Oddly enough Daniel, I have just played some Ozark Mountain Daredevils , Ry Cooder, and finished with "She's got the devil in her heart", The Beatles. What more can a man do?

 

[DanielT]

Oddly enough Daniel, I have just played some Ozark Mountain Daredevils , Ry Cooder, and finished with "She's got the devil in her heart", The Beatles. What more can a man do?

Well, that is a question that I think a woman would give you good tips and advice on.

In any case, ..ehh hm best that we stick to Hifi.

 

[Katji]

There are physical gender differences in human brains, that occur in utero. There are functional differences that can be mapped with advanced MRI techniques. Studies have been done that show different parts of the brain are active in men vs. women when listening to music, for example. Particularly since the differences hold across cultures, it doesn’t follow that the differences are purely cultural and learned.

Listening/response difference, probably no correlation with tendency to interest in hi-fi/audio equipment.
(Or more specifically, interest in audiophile forums or hi-fi clubs.)

In music production, interest in hardware and software, including analog synths, it seems more like 50-50 to me.
Dj/producers, regarding speakers/monitors and audio interfaces, interest in UIX, some are more interested than others, male or female.

 

[Katji]

General women and technology, gender distribution in Sweden, applicable engineering degree

The proportion of women who take an engineering degree is steadily increasing and more and more engineering specializations are getting an even gender distribution. But the variation is big. There are also specializations where women are few and far between. It shows a new analysis.

It probably differs very much between different countries.

Jämn könsfördelning på allt fler ingenjörsinriktningar

Andelen kvinnor som tar ingenjörsexamen ökar stadigt och allt fler ingenjörsinriktningar får jämn könsfördelning. Men variationen är stor. Det visar en ny analys.

www.ingenjoren.se

It seems to confirm what I thought - that there are more female graduates in civil eng., water and waste and transport systems and so on, than in electronic eng. ...It seems to be similar pattern in other countries.