valve1 wrote:

Ola gringo ! I will drink to that .... while enjoying my B&O

Søren Mexico wrote:

Pipe and slipper types slowly showing that they are still there, waiting for Valve 1, the drunken Irishman

 

 

Nice to see you active again Eddie

 

Søren Mexico wrote:

Nice to see you active again Eddie

Thanks Soren, I have been here all the time. I think its simply a case of Im a"cable guy" ! All this streaming dropping and apps is beyond me.The best thing I have seen recently on Beoworld has been Dennis getting the 4401.

This has affected me in two ways - Beo envy and Beo lust , its been a long time since that happened. 😁

I’ve been reading this thread with great interest. Not sure if I qualify as one of the old guard (been a member for 10 years) but I would certainly qualify as one of PaulW’s ‘pipe and slippers’ brigade!

Like many others I’ve noticed a slight shift in the tone of the site, perhaps because many of the older members no longer post. Whether that means it is less ‘fun’, I’m not so sure. That shift is arguably to a less robust, more overtly ‘sensitive’ style of commentary perhaps designed to avoid giving offence rather than stating an opinion in a clear and forthright fashion. This may reflect recent societal change, most noticeably evident on social media, where challenging the accepted orthodoxy is risky and often results in a vitriolic response. Even some of our American members seem reluctant to fulfil their rights to free speech enshrined in their constitution!

Certainly though, much of the humour does seem to have gone with the loss of some of the senior members. I do miss many of the older posters such as Andy (jandyt). Whether this loss is driven by the shift mentioned above, by the older members’ increasingly pessimistic view of the brand’s direction of travel, its perceived or actual reduction in reliability or simply by a change of personal interest is open to debate. Nice to see a few older ones contributing to the thread to show they are at least still alive.

Certainly I don’t remember such a high level of complaints about quality and reliability when I first started as a member. There may have been comments on sound quality and the inevitable comparisons with other manufacturers’ kit but this certainly didn’t reflect a concern about the inherent unreliability or a lack of engineering excellence of the products to the extent it does today.

I’ve little interest in current products as apart from the issues mentioned above, they do not, to my mind, have the design coherence nor the engineering flair of the Jensen/Lewis years with the exception of the top of the range Beolabs and even they are not without some user problems. The only currently produced piece I have is the A1 which, whatever it may be, isn’t HiFi by any reasonable criteria. On the other hand it is an ideal, family friendly travelling companion for listening to music, podcasts and the radio when away from home.

Thankfully there are still a number of members who have been around for a time and who continue to provide help and guidance on the older products I still revere and use on a daily basis. With my membership up for renewal this month I fleetingly considered changing my membership. But I feel Beoworld is still a real community worth supporting financially. Like many communities some members occasionally rub each other up the wrong way but that is normal. I would hate the forum to become so effete that it lacks any real challenge or robust debate.

Cleve

For me, and I don't type this lightly, but Beoworld got boring... Sorry.....

It became the same couple of people answering EVERY question or commenting on EVERY post in a serious tone. The good people left, the fun people got berated, and Wedthread disappeared to a different area so seemed to get forgotten

At the same time I got busier and less interested in Beoworld as it was just not entertaining anymore

 

If my flaky memory serves me right its been about 7 years since i posted, glad to see the Wednesday bunch are still alive , i remember it very fondly , convinced at one point that puncher was actually KEZ as a small boy 😂

Sorry to say i pretty much agree with johnathan. 

As for fun, well its wednesday today isnt it ?  

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Jason wrote:

convinced at one point that puncher was actually KEZ as a small boy 😂

I had forgotten about that !!😂😂👍

 

 

Jonathan wrote:

It became the same couple of people answering EVERY question or commenting on EVERY post in a serious tone.

100% this.

In days this has gotten 80 replies, wouldn’t say this place is abandoned, and come on. The grass is always greener on the other side; it was better before; etc etc. we’ve all heard it before. Everywhere.

I see conversations here every day, I often go in just to watch and read, sometimes I reply or ask. I talk B&O with friends around the world and use my B&O every day too. Some of it travels with me and when I see someone with B&O I react, as so usually they. I think B&O is alive as ever. There’s not only B&O that makes cool tech anymore and people are more and more adopting it. Also people have other interests and life’s going on. I guess a lot of the older guys here have gone to other priorities like family, grand children, moving from a bigger house perhaps.

I like that it’s not always the same, us as a community flows with time and it’s fun and interesting to see the older systems and how people sometimes become members because they moved in and found all these weird powerlink and beolink cabling in the walls, or a Beosound or two “forgotten” on a wall.

Just my opinion but sure, not everyone is here as often as before but new members come along and some are here just like before.