Is this forum dead?

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I think Rich product pages Is a great idea.
We are looking at something like the following, if there are any other details that you feel could be added then please let me know. Beolink could also be added to the relevant pages, something along the lines of Masterlink etc.  

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire

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I think that is good - you possibly could add that the 4004 was really designed for the 2400 system with a proto datalink system to allow remote control of the record player. One of the bits I still have ! Along with the 4001 :-)

It is difficult though as the majority of younger people will not want the old Hi-Fi systems - the new 4000c is obviously a very niche product though a splendid one - and are more likely to use standalone speaker devices - to be honest, this is what I now use most often as you can just ask for what you want and it is delivered rather that looking for CDs, tapes or LPs.

Therefore the market for Beoworld is less than it was at its height - not the forum dying, more the users! However I would agree that if I wanted to ask a question about B&O, Beoworld would be my first port of call.

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I am not as active here as I have been, I must admit.
Down from about a dozen posts a day to a few per month.
Discussions are now spread all over the net, which is a shame, I think.

I am not on Facebook. Never was and probably never will be.
I never visited Discord.
Every B&O enthusiast has his own forum now, it seems. Or Facebook page or Instagram or ...or...or...
Having to visit hundreds of places to get information or help is frustrating and it is wasting time looking
everywhere instead of one place - and keeping track of where what happens, where did I ask the question etc. - oh no, it's not for me.
Better to concentrate than to water out in my opinion.

We don't have many dicussions about products within my scope of interest here.
I don't care for TVs, I don't care for video products more or less as a whole. I don't care for home automation
and I have very little interest in apps.
I know next to nothing about the newer products, and I don't service them.
I don't feel the need to make things complicated - just for the sake of doing that - when it can be done simple.
I actually wrote a longer piece about this a while ago, but decided not to post it, as it was more or less just my own
reflections and not really particularly helpful.

Martin
I hope not as I have just returned and signed up for Silver Membership. I had a brief spell of non B&O products but couldn't live with them.

I did look at other forums but in my opinion this one is best - the others are either trying to sell stuff, complain or bragging about what they have. My interest is in classic and modern B&O, but I can only afford the classic! so this place is perfect as both are supported and discussed.

Location: United Kingdom

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I agree with Martin - my interest was always in the audio equipment which is now not really available. I confess my most used piece is my Beolit 700 - splendid piece of kit - though not sure Martin would approve as I sprayed the case blue - I think it was mustard before though can't remember! Thanks to Multicare I do have Beolab 5s which are stupendous but are attached to my Beovision 11 which is clunky compared to the LG sets we have elsewhere.

Interested that ajames' favourite piece is the 9300 - my favourite design is the 9500 - which sits in what we call the playroom - actually have two of these but have the other on long term (permanent!) loan with a friend. The ability to use it with a Beolink 7000 is the advantage amongst other things. Slightly noisy transformer on mine but managing with use of squash balls!

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Location: Paris France

Location: Paris France

Location: Switzerland

Location: United Kingdom

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Hello, for what it's worth I find this forum the calmest and most thorough place to discuss B&O and to resolve niggles with the euipment I enjoy at home.
I'm quite old fashioned I suppose - I still play tapes, records and cds daily. And I play FM radio too. I have a small collection of my favourite music systems and I love my Beovision 7.

I've tried the Faceplace group and find it a very scattery and inconsistent place. Lots of ego and lots of slagging B&O off - from what I can see mostly by people who don't have any passion for the brand.

Beoworld is an excellent resource and a glorious library of interesting projects and documented resolutions to common problems.

I would love to see a rebirth of 'web forums' - I think enough time has passed for people to realise that open social media platforms often encourage the nay-sayers and the discourteous to flourish.

Please keep on with developing our beloved Beoworld.

Location: Kent, UK

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Beofan for many years with a penchant for 1990s audio systems.
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