right now, at this very second we have -
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We need (IMO) to encourage:
1) pro-active interesting threads by members
2) creating a welcoming place where guests will want to join in and start their own interesting topics for conversation.
from 'the music section' to the general forum there's a place where anyone can do that IMO.
Agreed.
I've returned from two days visiting Tony L in the frozen Northern wastelands listening to a great system. I'll write up the experience over the next few days. Lots of pics
I've also now got around 10 tubes for our virtual ECC83 bake so that will also be appearing soon.
On Simon's point of a forum USP - well expect lots more science and real, rational explanations as to why audible differences exist.
A science based forum doesn't exist at the moment IMO, I'm avoiding the word 'objectivist' as that doesn't really quantify what I mean. In short, less foo and more fact but certainly not a glorified technical repair talking shop.
Let me give you an example.
Look at the way forums have handled Mana.
Mana is great, Mana is crap, you can't set it up, your a prat, it cannot possibly work, it works by magic, it channels energy form magnetic North into the system, Mana owners are all deaf idiots, it rings like a bell, nothing else works, only works with a spliff ...... and so on forever and ever, Amen.
Gets us precisely where?
Nowhere at all.
So what if we actually attempted to measure the Mana effect on a source component - actually show on screen that the stuff makes a difference to the signal coming from your TT, or the the amount of vibration reaching the floor. Perhaps then reference that to the same items on a £20 Ikea coffee table.
Nobody is doing this stuff or talking about it. We can.
Things are already moving and all indicators are up - the place is already busier and I know that many of us who remember the old days have no intention of letting ZG fade away.
It aint gonna happen.
