For the first time, I think ever: At 21:08 Mextime I was alone member on the forum.

I have a suspicion that the server probably had a small out! Normally that resets the member score!

IMHO there is very little activity on the forum... Only a few topics active a day and that's on the general forum. Worried.

im not sure you chaps have an "off topic" section on here but may boost attendance on the site. just an idea.........

jahur:

im not sure you chaps have an "off topic" section on here but may boost attendance on the site. just an idea.........

But we do - that load of drivel is called the Wednesday© Thread and it starts every Wednesday at 7pm UK time over here

AFAIK the "Who's Online" display isn't necessarily real time and resets every now and then.

fair enough, just an idea... why is it limited to every wednes tho? server space?

Wedthread is not for everyday and IMO not anything that will give more to the forum.

What we need is more threads like Richs speaker revival, Leslies recovering his frets, Eugenes amazing restorations of everything vintage, Martins rebuilds of anything, Chartz BG and so on. Thats for vintage.

Martin in Germany made som very interesting threads of more modern equipment. As I'm into vintage I can't say much about newer equipment.

One of the problems in vintage is that it's normaly more or less the same guys/girls posting, and as it is time and money consuming to make an interesting thread, only a few does it. A lot of newbies goes in get a solution of their problems and then never post the result and mostly never a pic or two.

I see myself as one of the newer guys posting and that started I think about one year ago, since then I dont remember any newbie posting a longer thread.

I dont think the forum is detoriating, it's just a low season, spring is coming up in the northern hemisphere, the limies is coming out from their caves, where they in the dark winter month made their B&O repairs, the Dutch guys made clogs,and now its house and garden that needs some time.

I'm living in nearly eternal spring-summer, and we only make house and garden just before xmas, and as I'm waiting to get my BLs 3000 flat and 3702 down from Texas I wont make any thread before they are here. And as money and wife says buy no more, I have no plans to do more before the virus hit me again. I'm sure there are more in my situation.

Activity on site does tend to wax and wane. There could be reasons for this:

1. High activity corresponds with the advent of new exciting products.

2. The server software has a bug which has meant posters with high post counts sometimes need to post two or three times before the post is accepted. As a lot of posts are generated by a relatively small number of people, this has had quite an effect. We are attempting to fix this though with distinctly middling results.

3. People find that their interest change over time. Look at the archived forum and you will find very few names you recognise. A number of members who added greatly to the site has simply found other things more important to do.

4. Stereo is a dying format. When I first started on this site, the vast majority of questions were on stereo systems. These days, surround and AV is much the greater area of interest. This is more expensive and has a smaller audience.

5. Boredom - there are only so many times that one can answer 'How do I connect my (insert piece of B&O) to my (insert cheap probably Chinese other make).

We will be launching the new server soon - and we should have a launch burst of energy!

@peter- i was one of the early birds on the old site (nokinnikon) i used to love being on that back then.

i do understand what your saying.

@ soren, when you say limies (limey's) are you referring to the lack of vitamin c on the old naval fleets of the british?

Peter :

Activity on site does tend to wax and wane. There could be reasons for this:

1. High activity corresponds with the advent of new exciting products.

2. The server software has a bug which has meant posters with high post counts sometimes need to post two or three times before the post is accepted. As a lot of posts are generated by a relatively small number of people, this has had quite an effect. We are attempting to fix this though with distinctly middling results.

3. People find that their interest change over time. Look at the archived forum and you will find very few names you recognise. A number of members who added greatly to the site has simply found other things more important to do.

4. Stereo is a dying format. When I first started on this site, the vast majority of questions were on stereo systems. These days, surround and AV is much the greater area of interest. This is more expensive and has a smaller audience.

5. Boredom - there are only so many times that one can answer 'How do I connect my (insert piece of B&O) to my (insert cheap probably Chinese other make).

We will be launching the new server soon - and we should have a launch burst of energy!

Well, I hope when the day comes I finally score a Beomaster 4400 (or please dear God let it be a 4401) and a Beogram 4000, someone is still around to help me perfect it.

My interest in stereo will never die.  Sure I dig the films in the home theater on occasion, but it will always be about the rock music for my spare time.

And a shout out and thanks to Soren for alluding to the M70 thread.  That was/is a fun project with still some work to do!

jahur:

@ soren, when you say limies (limey's) are you referring to the lack of vitamin c on the old naval fleets of the british?

Yes and i think you have the same problem on your planet

Well, I'm one of the absolute newbies on this forum. I am very inpressed with the knowledge of its members, but even more with the patience and relatively welcoming demeanor of everyone.  Even in the short time I've been here, I've learned a tremendous amount about the vintage pieces (BM 4400, BG 4002 and BG 4004) that I own.  I know that I am only a silver member, but thank you all for maintaining a great and informative site.  And special thanks to Peter who dragged me over from the VE forum.

Kevin

Kevin, on the forum its not about silver or gold members, gold members are gamblers, they only want to winn the first price every month

you will see on the forum a lot of members giving good advise and with a lot of knowledge helping where they can, and they never sign up for silver or gold, I signed up as silver to get the manuals, if you try to buy manuals somewhere else, you pay for on or two manuals the same as for one year membership, but with my experience on the forum I think that all members get the same help whether they are members or gold.

Your very interesting pieces gets you faster and more answers, but that only shows the entusiasm we feel for interesting pieces and problems.

@soren, why are you insulting us british???? in caves, problem on your planet??? these are the ramblings of a drunk, surely?

lest not forget soren its a british man that designs the vast amount of the beo products we so lovingly adore and admire

please dont insult me or my fellow countrymen by calling me/us limey's.

if you insist on doing so at least get the spelling correct.

feeling alone? making insults like that its no wonder you were alone on this forum!

I don't think it was any more than humour! Certainly taken that way here. Actually, living in the North and having just had British Summer Time foisted upon us, it is a bit dark again! I think Mexico has a little catching up to do in the insult area following the expoits of Clarkson (a B&O user!) and Hammond.

I think the forum will exist for many years for the stereo crowd - there is a hard core of us who simply love the products of the 60s, 70s and 80s who will always try to help fellow enthusiasts. I am afraid Rich's search for a 4401 could well be fruitless. I had actually got to the point of dismantling a 4400 ready to have it anodised before Frede found first one and then another. Both have the red stickers and wiring of prototypes.

One of the great strengths of this forum is the international membership - we must however remeber that conversations on the internet do lack the visual cues seen in normal conversation. The emoticons can be used to augment what we say but are a blunt tool. And too many are just irritating!

even so the clarkson comments were not reflective of the majority of this country. im very patriotic as coming from a military background on both sides of my family, way back to the doomsday book.

caves? suggested we are still in the dark ages, limey's need i say more. and as for the grinning emoticon....

if i appear to be anal about it then i apoligize.

I am in someways a relative new comer then! I have my mother's side back to the 1500s but my father's relatives are from Ireland via New Zealand. I am not sure I would call myself patriotic, but I am pleased I am English. It does make life very easy and this country has been responsible for many of the technological inventions that we rely on now. We do tend to be somewhat self critical but England's sense of fairplay and it's attempt to help those of it's citizens who are less fortunate by means of universal health care and benefits does in my view mark us as a civilised country.

Besides, the invention of cricket could only be done by a country of true genius!

the english, irish, scottish and the welsh make up the united kingdom, we have been pioneers in every aspect of life, inventors, creators, discoverer's since the stonehenge era and beyond.

yeah id say without reservation we are a truly civilised kingdom and have been for years. the only people in this country in the dark ages are the politicians. not the monarchy.

anyhow its a true brit who has designed the most iconic av systems in the world. another notch to our ever growing list of great brits.

I know who you are thinking of but Jacob Jensen is danish. 

Martin

@dillen. why mention jacob??? hes not a brit. and yes i know what he achieved, i have had his creations and also have a bedside timer/alarm clock device beside my bed a more recent design of his......

this conversation started over a perceived insult to the british from soren mexico. and i was highlighting the greatness of my country and all great things that have and are being achieved by it, certainly not from a cave or a vitamin c  deficiency as soren mexico so thought.

and if your getting at me claiming all beo products are not danish, they are and always will be. as for david lewis (the brit) has to stick to bangs original concept, david lewis puts his twist on things with exorcet precision. did this really need explaining?????

this is going slighty off topic.needs to stop.

I tend to agree - we have strayed slightly off topic! On nationalities, I think most nations regard themselves as the best!- I think that is what patriotism is all about, and it holds for most countries. I think the diversity seen on BeoWorld shows why all nationalities should be valued. It is interesting that the happiest nation is usually Denmark.

I am sure Soren was simply having a little joke at our expense and I am equally sure he meant no offence. I must confess to having a slight tinge of envy as I am about to take the dogs out on a rather damp and grey morning. And this whilst clearing my daughter's bedroom - she is on an exchange visit to Stuttgart at present.

jahur:

@soren, why are you insulting us british???? in caves, problem on your planet??? these are the ramblings of a drunk, surely?

lest not forget soren its a british man that designs the vast amount of the beo products we so lovingly adore and admire

please dont insult me or my fellow countrymen by calling me/us limey's.

if you insist on doing so at least get the spelling correct.

feeling alone? making insults like that its no wonder you were alone on this forum!

Jahur I'm very sorry, it was meant as a joke and I opologizes to everyone for the insult, I will take care not to do so in the future.

As for the "feeling alone" thread, I wrote that because it was the first time I saw that I was the only member on line.

I admire and respect the British and without you we would not have this forum, as for the spelling, I do my very best to get it right.

Again Jahur, my apologizes

hey soren no worries, i guess i got the wrong end of it on the back of reading a certain banned ex members post (beocom 2)

as for your spelling please dont apoligize i always get my mucking furds wuddled.

that guy was really hurt by everyone stitching him up on his inventions. he was clearly a genius, they do say there is a fine line between insanity and genius. it come across as he was having a breakdown of sorts and he was no doubt looking for some sort of sympathy.

 my heart goes out to him.

Einstein was quoted once that insanity is going over the same old problem and looking for different ways and answers (not succint)

millions of people have witnessed apples falling from trees, only one person asked why (sir isaac newton) sometimes im the only one who seems to ask why and see why what who and how. sorry if i came across as anal and outspoken

I wasn't getting at you at all !
I was merely trying to be funny but obviously didn't succeed and I'm sorry.

David Lewis is also a great designer, I agree.
He has lived in Denmark for more than 30 years, I drive by his Design headquarter quite often.

Martin