Eric Carmichel wrote: ... > I had the fortunate pleasure of having a lengthy conversation with Mr. Dell. > This was a number of years ago. Our conversation covered several topics: One > topic that intrigued Mr. Dell was women in audio (or the lack of women in > audio). According to Ed, around 99 percent of his subscribers (TAA, Speaker > Builder, and Glass Audio magazine) were male.
It wasn't just hi-fi; male hobbies tended to pass in waves. This could be seen in the hobbyist magazines popular in the UK. Prior to hi-fi it was photography, with magazines such as Amateur Photographer. This died away, and the next wave was hi-fi, with magazines such as Wireless World. This passed, and the next wave was personal computers, with magazines such as Personal Computer World. I no longer live in the UK but, from magazines available in Canada, it appears that distinct waves have now been replaced with a mishmash. I was in the hi-fi wave, and got stuck there. In general, women never got sucked into any of these hobbies. I have no evidence, but suspect the reason is that they do not suffer from testosterone. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
