rrwmd
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The "My Wife Rocks" thread got me to thinking about my wife as it relates to audio...
My wife is what I would call a casual music fan. She enjoys good music, listens to music in the car, has her favorite artists and albums, and has gone to countless concerts with me and thoroughly enjoyed herself, etc. But she's not one to make listening to music played back by an audio system a "destination" like most of us here. She rarely sits down to listen to music with me, unless she's also doing something else. And she has absolutely no interest in the equipment or in dissecting the sound of music a la critical listening.
Still -- and this is the point of the thread -- somehow she always seems to be able to put her finger exactly on the slightest imperfection of my system at any given time. It's freaky, really, how she can just walk into my listening room to tell me something, get halfway through her first sentence, and say something like "that bass sounds kind of bloated to me" or "it sounds just a little edgy".
And she's always right.
Have others had this type of thing happen? I know this isn't auditory acuity in the strict sense, as in the ability to appropriately hear the entire frequency spectrum as measured by an audiogram. But are women just innately better at perceiving nuances of sound, even if they are not "trained" or "experienced" listeners?
My wife is what I would call a casual music fan. She enjoys good music, listens to music in the car, has her favorite artists and albums, and has gone to countless concerts with me and thoroughly enjoyed herself, etc. But she's not one to make listening to music played back by an audio system a "destination" like most of us here. She rarely sits down to listen to music with me, unless she's also doing something else. And she has absolutely no interest in the equipment or in dissecting the sound of music a la critical listening.
Still -- and this is the point of the thread -- somehow she always seems to be able to put her finger exactly on the slightest imperfection of my system at any given time. It's freaky, really, how she can just walk into my listening room to tell me something, get halfway through her first sentence, and say something like "that bass sounds kind of bloated to me" or "it sounds just a little edgy".
And she's always right.
Have others had this type of thing happen? I know this isn't auditory acuity in the strict sense, as in the ability to appropriately hear the entire frequency spectrum as measured by an audiogram. But are women just innately better at perceiving nuances of sound, even if they are not "trained" or "experienced" listeners?
