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Please Make Audiogon Cool


I think that there are a lot of experienced and interesting people on this site. Some in retail, some in manufacturing, and probably some really cool artists, scientists and engineers of all sorts of backgrounds.


I want to encourage those of you with something to say, a point of view, a helpful idea to post.


Without this type of interaction, Audiogon becomes just a shopping support group. If you care about the Audiogon community and would like to see it go in a particular direction, then please contribute in the way you feel most comfortable and engaging.

Thanks!

Erik
erik_squires

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erik_squires OP
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@elizabeth,

You make a good point about the boutique manufacturer being alive and well, but they are drops in the sea of total stereo sales.


erik_squires OP
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I think this hobby was made cool by the pioneering DIY hobbyists who created it.  Hi Fi wasn't brought to us by big business. Big business took it over.

If we want to make being an audiophile something other than a consumer hobby we have to encourage more DIY and make more opportunities for personal innovation.


erik_squires OP
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Trolls are like cats. Lay out a blank square in the middle of nowhere and one has to come and sit on it.  Put out some pretty things on the counter and they have to knock them off.

If you worry, at all, about what trolls think or project onto you, you become their slave and incapable of acting from authentic spontaneity. Nothing clutters your mind more than when you start to worry you'll have trolls complaining about you. It's like looking into the mind of madness.

Just letting people know how I pick my directions.


Best,

Erik

erik_squires OP
16,678 posts
 
+1 @noromance 

The future belongs to the polymath
erik_squires OP
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"Engineers cant be cool" - Things uttered by people tripping over each other to buy the latest thing an engineer is selling.
erik_squires OP
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This has simultaneously been the most important, revealing and fun thread I have ever started anywhere.

I would like to sincerely thank everyone for participating with such passion.
erik_squires OP
16,678 posts
 
3 minutes between the time I posted something and the time you replied.

I feel we really should start planning some sort of future together, Miller. Are you into sports? Beaches?? How do you feel about adopting?
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