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I don't mind taking the point, to the esteemed Asylum member from Washington a rebuttal.

No assumptions simply statistics, the overwhelming majority of high-end consumers are male; I doubt there is one woman customer in five hundred and I'm probably being generous at that. Therefore, few if any women would likely be reading or replying here, although any and all are welcome to do so. On another note, I'm fairly confident that your audio system is probably not in clear view in the living room, where it would likely be deemed to not fit in with the overall motif but more likely has found its place in a studio / music room? Furthermore, I'll bet that product aesthetics had a weighted consideration in their purchase? As opposed to their selection based solely on sound quality, without any regard to visual aspects of the equipment?
Next point; perhaps you are a sterling paradigm of justice and equality in which case I bow to your beneficence. But, the more likely scenario is that of an average human being which unfortunately does not generally behave in a very egalitarian manner. All too often those that express equality actually, if they are honest with themselves in the long dark night, desire an Orwellian version where “some are more equal than others”. My disgust was with reading yet one more kvetching audiophile bemoaning that his system did not pass WAF therefore he must seek something even more pathetic than before such that its presence may then be tolerated by his spouse. A precise choice of words there as equipment is never “approved of” only tolerated.
In times far past, during evening entertainment in upper society the gentlemen would retire to the drawing rooms for their cigars, cognac and occasionally billiards, while the ladies retired to their sitting rooms for coffee and discussion. So where is the modern world's equivalent of such, considering that the typical person does not have an English manor house close to hand? If the living room is to be the sole domain of the woman then it is neither equitable nor just that the wife can then also demand that no other room of the house, a shared property by the way, can be reserved for the husband's use. Are there no dens, no family rooms, no basements, no entertainment rooms that can be utilized for his audio hobby, if so then he should modify or build such. You seem to be advocating a position that not a single solitary room should be available for the man to use, that stance is indefensible. Especially if the woman is dictating every other aspect of the house and the man is only utilizing a single media room. Where pray tell is there any equality in that?


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