Amps and Women

My boss's wife have a similiar "six" sense when it comes to car. His understanding is that unlike men, women listen or choose a product without a lot of technological bias. Some time it's just better and quicker that what. Cheers!

Woman do not intrinsically hear better than me. Men are much more apt to suffer hearing loss because of occupational exposures to noise, exposures to guns,loud music ect, also exposures to lawnmowers, weed eaters, saws and other power equipment. I have performed 20 plus audiograms a week on men and woman for over 25 years and the largest percent of hearing loss is in men. But this is changing, woman are now working in jobs that were traditionally male(factory work for an example) they are doing yard work, shooting guns ect. I am now seeing more hearing loss in woman than before. The number one cause of hearing loss today is ampilfied music(headphones, car, home stereos and live music concerts)This may explain in part why woman are able to tell differences in equipment but as a long time music lover and married, I also believe that woman listen differently to music than men(can't explain that part) Good listening to all and remember to wear ear plugs when exposed to noise.A rule of thumb is that if the noise is loud enough that you have to raise your voice for someone next to you to hear, it's probably loud enough to cause a hearing loss. Also remember that time exposed to noise is a key factor too.

Sorry for the typo, I meant to say that woman don't intrinsically better than MEN,(not me) Thanks

Perfect. Here's where I come in. I think that my husband's passion with this hobby is both in the technical understanding and the journey of improving the reproduction of sound (that includes obtaining the gear, but also the personal relationships established in doing so). He can speak to this, this is just what I have observed. He was on the phone, just this morning, for an hour with someone discussing Innersound gear Me? I just love to listen. He troubleshoots, works out the details, then I come in and sit down with a glass of wine. Pretty good gig, actually! Sure, I enjoy understanding enough to intelligently understand WHY there are differences, but for me - it's in the discovery of hearing something in a piece of music that I never heard before. You can listen to your collection again and again and it's like hearing it for the first time. Who would have thought changing out power cords could bring such enjoyment! It's insane. I love the musical gear - Rowland amps, Apogee speakers, tubes in the front end. I tend to get a personal attachment to stuff, too. Something really has to come in the door and show me something more, before I am ready to let go. I, of course, trust his judgement and go along with whatever he is ready to try. The Apogee stages lasted the longest, but we have moved on to electrostatic panel hybrids. We are now in the middle of seeing what we think about a Classe 300 in place of the two Rowland Model 1's mono-blocked. And it is very musical. But, I bet we end of getting the gain adjusted on the Rowlands and tri-amp the whole bloody thing. It is so much fun!

MY wife calls my system A RADIO...Until she hears her favorite CD...Then it's a lovely sounding sweet tubes ontop solid state on the bottom great sounding system....GEE.