Naim Exodus? What's going on?

+ 1. LOL. Etc.

(I will now administer a ritual self-flagellation - not necessarily as a punishment)

Chaps

There will always be a new inflow into fora and there will always be those who stop contributing. That is a rule of nature and it is healthy.

My own view is that after about 5 years, a prolific contributor seems to attract more moans than someone who is new, so it is the internets way of saying - bugger off, you have outstayed your welcome.

Looking at it another way, would the forum be healthy, if all the regulars from the nineties were still here saying the same old stuff with the same old opinions.

You often find old posters seem desperate to say anything and the standard of discussion is purile. They just post for the sake of it. The new guys are more topical and their postings are refreshing because they have the enthusiasm and energy of youth.

I still lurk every day but I have the sense to accept that I am well past my sell by date, so I limit my appearances and I think thats best. Fresh blood is healthy, old repeat artists are dull. The new guys enjoy contributing, I enjoy reading what they say because it is new. That is healthy and as it should be.

Regards

Mick

John.

Business as usual, then?

From serious comments to a little banter,  all is well in Naimland.

Don't worry Tony, I've just been a bit busy, but now I'm back.

All is well in ForumLand.

Paul is being EXTREMELY kind . . .

I've been a member since the "good ol' days."  I think the direction of the forums has generally been a positive one.  I've had the good fortune to have owned a wide range of Naim and other gear, from the original Nait up through 52/250s to active SBLs, as well as to have been able to tap the experience and meticulousness of people like Chris Koster, Rick Duplisea, and others.  

At this point, however, I think hifi in general (from whatever source) has reached a kind of summit - companies will be able to continue to make improvements, but they will be of the incremental variety.  The reason, I think, is that companies that push the edge are against simple physical limitations.  A loudspeaker has to be a certain size to reproduce frequencies of a certain wavelength, and an amplifier has to have a sufficiently large power supply to make that speaker move enough air to reproduce those frequencies, and so on.  For example, while the 500 is the finest amplifier I've ever heard, it is obviously cut from the same cloth as, say, an olive 250 (or, indeed, a Nait 1).  Is a 500 hugely "better?"  Of course it is.  But it's a quantitative leap as opposed to a qualitative one.  

I think the forums have similarly evolved.  At this point, there's not a lot of reasonable dispute around what will sound better (although there is a lot of discussion around whether something is "worth" doing ahead of something else!).  Hence, some people drift away, having resolved their questions in a manner satisfactory to them.  Others, like me, may have life events that take them away for a while.  Still others may get impatient with newer folks asking questions that have long since been answered, or not feel like they're getting their just due from other members.  Etc.

Sorry.... I've been busy doing some Hi-Fi housekeeping. Unplugging and replugging everything. Adding ferrites to digital leads and some power leads. The ferrites will be an ongoing process as the systems rebalances after the power down.

I might have to go away again for a while to watch the 4th season of Breaking Bad, plus Spiral 4 is on BBC4 tomorrow...

Anyway, TTFN.

I sometimes write '+1...'     ............Gosh, I'm sorry........... It must be such a great inconvenience for some to just skip my post.

On the other hand  Isn't it allowed to do,

 in order that forum members know that the original 'airer' of this view is not alone ?

Also., how can you comment on someone's post if you don't quote the bl.....y quote you are talking about ?

Maybe you can say "Regarding so-and-so's comment....".

But what is more annoying - skipping posts that are not relevant, or paging back to a post someone is referring to ??

Sorry, but moaning on this forum is getting a bit silly (and that's from ME ).  

Adam,. you naught boy................. for posting the original quote, ......AND for the punishment .

Time for a little Redemption, Bro!

Brosely, surely!

I don't think your moaning is particularly silly.

Don downtown York

It depends on what I'm drinking when I post