The reason I actually know what I'm doing now, is down to those people. They rarely post now, because apart from the fact that they have their own lives to lead, there are simply no new people who are the slightest bit interested in building anything, and why should they be! So the situation now, as opposed to ten years ago, is that there is no one there anymore for them to to give any advice to. It's an old man's hobby and maybe it will decline until it dies with us, if it continues along the same path.
My particular interest is in trying, in my own way, however small, to work through, and design hi-fi equipment, namely speakers that work in people's living spaces, that are acceptable to women, and give very high quality sound at the same time.
One or two of us have heard in their own or my living space, and "seen" the results of my efforts.
I first stuck my head above the parapet, on the potential of designing for WAF and good sound, via AoS and was simply sneered at.... interestingly enough, not by Marco, who along with Macca, saw plenty of merit in what I was up to and to their credit, they did try to support me in that argument, against a few arrogant eejits, but it was a waste of time in the end.
So what should this forum be. Well I think it should be a place where all views are acceptable, a place of diversity and inclusion, and should be celebrating its roots in DIY audio, expanding its coverage of that and thinking about how this throwback to the post war era of hobbyist hi-fi we have here can do some good in the industry.
For my own part re DIY, I'm now out of ideas; the limit has been reached, I know Nick hinted on another thread that he wasn't sure how many more designs I had in me. Well unfortunately at the moment there are none, so others need to step up. Not necessarily in the blog style I do, but....
If electricity goes through it, post!
If you change a resistor, post!
If your amp blows up, post!
If you stub your toe on your speaker, post!
If you get your multimeter out, post!
If you make an arm out of a broom handle and a rusty nail, post!
We still wanna know about 2A3s, 26s, 71As, 801s, PX4s, Tribute transformers, mosfets, decent speaker drivers ad infinitum.
Oh and stop whining and be in the moment. If a miserable bastard like me can give it up after almost a lifetime of depressive illness then anyone can
Quit referring to or insinuating that inclusive lefties like me are grovelling apologists and anything for a quiet life!
Step away from the cans of kerosene
Grow up!
Quit forming cliques, and remember it's only a bloody stereo when all is said and done.
