 Re: Is Hi-Fi or Home Theatre a guy thing?
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In general I don't know any women who care about a) home theatre - I've know women who said their 20" tv was good enough! b) big speakers systems. Most seem to think floor standing speakers are the work of the devil and belong in the basement...which is fine if that's where your HT is.
I think it would be kinda cool if more chicks were into this sorta thing, but it seems in this and other AV forums that 99% of the posters/lurkers are guys.
Luckily for me, WAF isn't much of an issue, the wife doesn't really care what I park in the living room. In fact, I just ordered a HSU VTF-3 HO w/turbo which is going in the corner where a small table now stands. She also seems content with what we have, a small and very old AIWA bookshelf hooked up to the plasma. I think though once I get this Axiom M80/HSU/Emotiva combo hooked up, she won't believe it. As a comparison, when we swithched from dial-up internet to DSL years back, she didn't really seem to notice a difference. It wasn't until a year later that she got on a friends dial-up connection for some surfing that she came home and commented that she never wanted to go back to dial up again lol. So even if she isn't blown away by the surround system I am setting up, she will eventually get used to it, go to someone elses place, watch TV on a 20" tube with the internal speaker and think the same as DSL vs Dial up...that she would never go back.
Unfortunately the AV world is a "techie" world, and for whatever reason, it just doesn't appeal to a lot of women. Hopefully this will change with time.
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Re: Is Hi-Fi or Home Theatre a guy thing?
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Dan, do you have QS surrounds above AND below the upper bed, or were they just mounted differently in the two pictures ?
Bridgeman, there are 3 different rooms represented in my pictures.
The first two is my current room.
The next two was my setup last year (when I first got my axioms)
And the last one is my home setup.
Actually, the pictures showing my current setup everything is set up in "movie mode" Otherwise, my speakers move all the way to the left of that desk (where my keyboard is sitting), and so does my monitor.
Yea, looking at them again it's kind of confusing. 
 M22s|VP100|QS4s|HSU STF2
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Re: Is Hi-Fi or Home Theatre a guy thing?
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Maybe there are women here pretending to be men  . I hear that people do that all the time. All I can say is that since I got the Axiom system, my wife can't stop talking to her friends and relatives about it. She now actually says things like "You wouldn't believe that sound is only coming from two speakers and not the surrounds" and "I heard bells behind me and just had to look". The other day I caught her in the basement all alone listening and she's never done that before. She's always been content with her tiny boombox. It's really funny actually.
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Re: Is Hi-Fi or Home Theatre a guy thing?
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I'm glad there are stories of women hearing the light. Yeah, I've never personally run into any females who care about audio. On the other hand, almost every woman I know is into cars more than I am.
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