Peter wrote:

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 wrote:

@ 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