New Study Reports Women Hear Better than Men

[Lagonda]

How many women buying expensive cars or collectible art or even collecting anything? All they want to do is constantly buying regular, cheap stuff and keep changing them. Their hobby is buying and spending as much as possible in my opinion. I think spending big for an audio setup doesn’t make sense for them.

And a lot of their purchases of goods and services are made to improve their appearance. They just have different priorities than most men do.

 

[mtemur]

Please tell Chanel that its business model is a failure.

I stan by what I said: "women constantly buying regular, cheap stuff." For some rich women, even Chanel is considered cheap. I don't think any women is saving up her minimum wage to buy Chanel. Men is created for that purpose. BTW I don't know anything about Chanel's business model- you should ask rich men.

 

[Zuman]

I've admitted this before, but I confess that I like sound as much as I like music. I find that timbres, textures, tones, transients (and probably a whole lot of other things beginning with "t") do something to my brain that "thrills" it. Yes, I am absolutely moved by melody, but there are other parts to the musical listening experience that are equally important to me.
That's not the case with my wife. She absolutely does not seem to care about a recording's fidelity. I wonder if she can hear "through" poor recordings or playback chains in ways that I can't? Or perhaps melody is more important to her, as a person who is more emotionally-connected than me?
I've considered that my enjoyment of jazz might be partially related to the appeal that instrumental sounds have for me. The often-sparser instrumentation allows those sound characteristics to stand out more clearly. Again, my wife doesn't enjoy jazz.
None of this has anything to do with women's greater hearing sensitivity, but I do think it's relevant to men's greater interest in hifi reproduction.

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

So why aren't there more women audiophiles?

because they realize how far hiend is off the mark

 

[Audiohertz2]

Study shows women can hear better than men

An international team of scientists has found that biological sex is the leading factor explaining differences in hearing sensitivity, with women having significantly more sensitive hearing than men.

www.news-medical.net

Says no married man ever …..!

 

[PYP]

So why aren't there more women audiophiles?

Well, if that means reading threads on WBF, especially ones like this one...well, the conclusion presents itself.

If one has the chance to meet women scientists/engineers/professors/doctors/etc, one might have a different view of what interests women and what their goals and abilities are.

 

[exupgh12]

So why aren't there more women audiophiles?

In the last 30 or so years, the audiophile hobby has become focused on technology and equipment - something most women don't find interesting.
Also, the individualistic nature of the hobby, where most people often enjoy it alone, might also explain the lack of women's participation.
Women have a stronger preference for social and interactive activities, valuing company and conversation, as other studies show

 

[bonzo75]

It's a bit like do you like Marvel movies. If not, why not? While initially there might be some curiosity of the character, at one point there become just too many characters and too many versions of them, each is the same thing over and over and often they are nowhere compared to the good movies and TV shows. If you are a collector or marvel, you might be waiting for each Avenger series to know the "nuance" of every story and character and buy each memorabilia, but those discerning ones with better movie taste will soon drop out of this

 

[bonzo75]

Another analogy is that women work out in gyms as much as men, but those hanging out on forums squabbling are usually men and those experimenting with different barbells, their knurls, checking if the bar makes a sound when dropped, which bumper plates bounce least, and trying out different brands of power racks are almost always men.

 

[PYP]

Another analogy is that women work out in gyms as much as men, but those hanging out on forums squabbling are usually men and those experimenting with different barbells, their knurls, checking if the bar makes a sound when dropped, which bumper plates bounce least, and trying out different brands of power racks are almost always men.

and I've never seen a comment such as (actual quote) "I feel so swole" from a woman athlete after a workout. Or, a guy dismissing that body weight and weight lifted are related: "Stuff weighs what it weighs."

 

[bRnzBzh]

Interesting. My wife enjoys our system but she's said many times that the nuances I obsess over don't matter to her. If I ask her to compare cables, for instance, she can do it and we generally hear the same thing. It's just that in her case, such nuances do not tend to distract her or detract from her listening enjoyment. I can't say whether this is due to superior hearing, though.

And, btw, she is smarter than I am in many ways that have nothing to do with motherhood.

 

[Neil.Antin]

What's new: Gender differences in a longitudinal study of age-associated hearing loss, 1995: https://listenlikealawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/29e52-pearsonetal1995.pdf.

Abstract: "...Since 1965, the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging has collected hearing thresholds from 500 to 8000 Hz using a pulsed-tone tracking procedure. Mixed-effects regression models were used to estimate longitudinal patterns of change in hearing thresholds in 681 men and 416 women with no evidence of otoiogical disease, unilateral hearing loss, or noise-induced hearing loss. The results show (1) hearing sensitivity declines more than twice as fast in men as in women at most ages and frequencies, (2) longitudinal sensitivity are detectable
at all frequencies declines in hearing among men by age 30, but the age of onset of decline is later in women at most frequencies and varies by frequency in women, (3) women have more sensitive hearing than men at frequencies above 1000 Hz but men have more sensitive hearing than women at lower frequencies..."

 

[bRnzBzh]

What's new: Gender differences in a longitudinal study of age-associated hearing loss, 1995: https://listenlikealawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/29e52-pearsonetal1995.pdf.

Abstract: "...Since 1965, the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging has collected hearing thresholds from 500 to 8000 Hz using a pulsed-tone tracking procedure. Mixed-effects regression models were used to estimate longitudinal patterns of change in hearing thresholds in 681 men and 416 women with no evidence of otoiogical disease, unilateral hearing loss, or noise-induced hearing loss. The results show (1) hearing sensitivity declines more than twice as fast in men as in women at most ages and frequencies, (2) longitudinal sensitivity are detectable
at all frequencies declines in hearing among men by age 30, but the age of onset of decline is later in women at most frequencies and varies by frequency in women, (3) women have more sensitive hearing than men at frequencies above 1000 Hz but men have more sensitive hearing than women at lower frequencies..."

So it would seem this explains why I care much more about bass presentation than she does. Thanks!