Spintricity has forums and I have been wondering about how to keep it from being a place I hate.

About 90% of all people we talk to actively hate the forums - by which they mean people running them and/or the people on them.

Which, if this is true in general, means that forums as such are really not very successful.

I have certainly imagined a forum that I would like to be able to visit - where people are nice, passionate about audio, think about things and share their thoughts freely…

*sigh*

People seem to like Facebook and MySpace. Young people I mean.

Perhaps forums should be organized around groups of self-selected people, like those two communities are. So the forum would actually consist of lots of tiny little forums …and no jerks would be allowed to stay long in your forum unless you wanted them to [because there is the possibility that we are all jerks at some level or another ].

So we could, for an example, have a Jorma Prime Cable forum, where we could all talk about this cable, post new topics [threads] and discuss our experiences about this cable.

Or it could be more general, like The $4K A Meter And Above Cable forum.

I think this would be better than just, say, Cables [does anybody even have a cable forum, anywhere? Or am I forgetting…]. Or the Exotic SET Tube Amps forum instead of … the Amps forum like a few forums have.

You would probably want to participate in many… dozens… of forums… but you would NOT have to participate in the $100 and below cable blow-out forum unless you wanted to [or ones where there are so-called audiophiles who cannot hear the difference between cables]. Or between power cords [I know, I know, it is harder to hear differences in cables on some equipment that has a very strong sound of its own.. ].

So…

Here is your chance…

If you want a nice forum you can go to and chat as your amps warm up for the evening after the power has been out all day — a place you can find out ways to improve YOUR system, and not just read a could of bored guys chatting about nothing to each other adinfinitum… then speak up about what YOU would want at a place like this.

Because we can do just about anything… limited only by our imagination [which, although a significant limitation, is less so than the average human’s lemming tendencies to repeat the same mistake everyone else has made… vis-a-vis forums in this case]

…himself in the latest article in Spintricity, along with a few pictures of his rig, in

… Meet Brian Boehler.

… industry people shortly.

[A lot of industry people read the blog. So you audiophiles not in the industry, you now get a little peek into the industry, as well as where Spintricity is headed]

We want your press releases, we want your articles and editorials, we want your photos.

And we want your advertising.

We know the economy is tough [but I just love the price of gasoline these days ))], but Spintricity offers an upscale web presence at downscale prices.

And this is especially true in the upcoming show issue.

For those of you that are exhibiting at CES 2009, Spintricity offers the ability to put an ad right in with your photos that tells people what you were showing, why it was significant, prices, a link to more information, and why your equipment is to die for [or at least to 2nd mortgage for].

For those of you who are not going [and we as Audio Note just decided to go at the last minute… last week I think] then you can still get tons of exposure for your equipment by putting your own ad in the show issue - perhaps in with a room that showed something of yours, or perhaps in with the general show report itself.

And remember, our ads are for the lifetime of the magazine itself - not a month to month rental…. you OWN that space in the magazine [with legal and technical restrictions, of course. And no porn. Though it would probably be great for everybody’s business…. ].

This year the show report will be from the point of view like that in the speakers Guide in our Audiophiles Guide ot the Galaxy - we will talk about flavors of things, instead of from the point of view of the uber-high-end that Audio Federation inhabits [Neli still thinks I should do a mostly text version like the old reports, where we dissect the sound in the better rooms, with only a couple of photos, here on the Audio Federation website].

OK.

What do people think? Any opinions? Anybody? Bueller?