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Female Audiophiles?!
« on: July 22, 2015, 06:08:32 PM »

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Re: Female Audiophiles?!
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2015, 07:26:40 PM »

There is more, Kirsten Brodbeck Kenney makes some nice reviews and Harmony Hicks is also fun to read.
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Re: Female Audiophiles?!
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2015, 07:57:26 PM »

I wonder how many % of the audiophiles are female?

Although there's definitely more females that love listening to music but don't consider themselves audiophiles.
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Re: Female Audiophiles?!
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2015, 08:06:23 PM »

There is more, Kirsten Brodbeck Kenney makes some nice reviews and Harmony Hicks is also fun to read.

Doesn't Harmony Hicks write for headphone guru?  I try to avoided any reviews from those people. 

Have you guys noticed that after a headfier gets enough experience  they either becomes a diyer, pyrate, or a reviewer for headphone guru?
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Re: Female Audiophiles?!
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2015, 08:20:21 PM »

There's Romy aka MuppetFace, but she hasn't been active on here or HF for a while now.
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Re: Female Audiophiles?!
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2015, 08:49:34 PM »

There's Romy aka MuppetFace, but she hasn't been active on here or HF for a while now.

Too bad, she has a sense of humour.
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Re: Female Audiophiles?!
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2015, 04:50:36 AM »

hey just saw the video, she did a really good job honest and informative.  Someone should invite her to join here.
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Re: Female Audiophiles?!
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2015, 05:21:25 AM »

Jana's pretty legit. I think she's a sales rep for Stereo Exchange now.

Also a pretty decent jazz pianist as well.
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Re: Female Audiophiles?!
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2015, 03:30:57 AM »

Jana's pretty legit. I think she's a sales rep for Stereo Exchange now.

Also a pretty decent jazz pianist as well.

She is a sales associate at Stereo Exchange. Funny in that I saw this thread earlier today when there was like one post and watched the video which I thought was well done.  Happened to get out of work early so headed over to Stereo Exchange with a couple of my own cans to demo some of their head amps.

The guy who usually helps me was out so Jana set me up in the headphone lounge. She looked kind of familiar and then as I was leaving later she mentioned she also had a YouTube channel and it clicked that I had just seen her video earlier that morning. Odd synchronicity that. She is fairly knowledgeable, but was great as a sales associate in that she just left me with plenty of time in the lounge with my own cans and pretty much all of SE's TOTL headphones out for listening. Unfortunately I really wanted to compare amps more than cans, but the oly one that was set up at the time was the McIntosh MHA100. Still it was nice getting to run all those cans trough the MHA 100, which I think is a good all in one albeit overpriced (but hey it's McIntosh so what do you expect). I am hoping to go Back another time again when the store is not so crowded to hopefully demo some less expensive alternatives. In addition to a good lineup of cans, SE now has a decent line of amps throughout a broad price range. While emphasis is on high. End/expensive , they do have some more affordable options.
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Re: Female Audiophiles?!
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2015, 04:18:54 AM »

I'm not sure that categorizing female audiophiles a "rare breed" is a good thing. Another way to put it would be to say that there may be aspects of the audiophile hobby that turn a lot of women off. The boothbabe dynamic may bring in a lot of north-middle-aged Diana Krall listeners and nouveau riche asians, but it's not doing any favors to the popular image of the audiophile. Neither does the Freudian obsession with thick cables and big shiny things  ::)
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