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Amps and Women

I have been happily married for over 20 years now. I am the supposed audiophile, yet my wife ,god bless her, can pick out the differences in amplifiers in about two seconds. I change over from my Spectral stuff to my Classe stuff,"Honey did you change the system again?" She was not even listening seriously, she was doing something totally different. So the question I pose, and my wife is not the only one I have noticed this with, do women in general possess better listening/hearing capabilties then men?? That is why I take her(and usually with great resentment on her part.) to audition audio equipment. In fact, in all fairness, she narrows the choices pretty quickly.
shubertmaniac
sean
6,229 posts
 
Jsbail, the difference between you A-B'ing all day and your wife forming opinions in 5 minutes is that YOU enjoy the tinkering around while she gets to verify the results. It's kind of like the guy that does his own tune-ups and the one that pays someone else to do it. The "tuner" enjoys his tinkering and wants to know all of the intimate details of his "baby" while the "payer" simply thinks of his car as being "transportation". BIG difference. Sean >
merle
11 posts
 
You are a moron if you let somebody tell what you like if you have the chance to hear the same thing at the same time.
merle
11 posts
 
Your girlfriends' comments are totally biased, fully subjective, as are all of our individual opinions, don't you get it?
merle
11 posts
 
It's all subjective. It's all subjective. It's all subjective, if it were not so then there would be one system that would be the best, get it?
detlof
1,899 posts
 
In all this discussion about differences in hearing between the sexes and if its genetic or not, I wonder if "listening" would not be the better expression. I also wonder if its a quantitative thing, in the sense of the frequency range you are capable of hearing, or if it is rather a qualitative thing, in the way you listen to what. Another puzzling thing: Why is it that people who are known to have defects in their intake ability for higher frequences will imediatedly notice if there is a cut off above say 15khz in any given piece of music. They will tell you, that there is something "wrong", but in terms of pure sience they are not supposed to notice anything at all. Can anybody clarify?
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