Women have different tastes from men and they don't seem to get sound quality.
¿Qué?
Klassik knows a woman who would love to own a Bösendorfer. Klassik knows others who dream of owning a Stradivarius or something similar. Some women do own those things...or at least have the rights to use one from someone that does own one.
It's probably safe to say that most women have little interest in obsessing about something inherently flawed and inferior such as audio reproduction. It's also safe to say that most men don't give a London about the obsession either.
One thing Klassik does miss from the days prior to the late 1990s was seeing audio equipment and other electronics at department stores and other similar type stores. Oh, sure, the stuff sold at such stores wasn't always great, but the good department stores at least had some decent stuff. It was always neat going there and seeing the newest items. Even department stores here in the US had listening rooms where one could hear the different speakers, amplifiers, CD players, and so forth. The employees didn't really care if one played around with the stuff. If one got dragged out to the mall so somebody else could shop for shoes or whatever, one could stop at these department stores and play around while one waited for the shoe shopping or whatever to be completed.
The department stores got rid of this stuff during a time when audio equipment was still selling (most home theater stuff and CD changers), but the profit margins where razor thin and most people were buying audio equipment for big box electronics store chains or specialty stores. Thus, the audio equipment was done away with. :/ Of course, many people don't shop at department stores these days anyway and it's harder for people to get excited about this stuff when it's only online or in high-end specialty stores.