Quote Originally Posted by Mick Parry View Post
Chaps

Well done.

I have to say I lurk a lot now a days but the standard of discussion on this forum is very high.

Better to have 500 good members than a load of morons.

Regards

Mick
Hi Mick,

I echo Steve's sentiments, and your comments are appreciated. We're trying to build something different and seem to be succeeding quite well. AOS will continue to be developed on a number of levels to keep it 'ahead of the game', as it were. We will get there slowly but surely.

If we were fortunate enough to have been around at the time when the old Naim forum 'disbanded' and started AOS with a core of popular and respected contributors like some other well-known forums did {wink, wink} AOS would now be huge. There just wasn't the same competition back then. It was (and is) much more difficult for us to grow and become successful in the current climate with so many other audio forums around, so we had to be a bit different in terms of discussion content and outlook, and particularly the way the forum was managed.

One thing we had in our favour was the experience Steve and I (and Rob to a lesser degree) had from previously contributing to other forums, so we learned from mistakes that were made and ensured that AOS would be immune from them, but we remain as pro-active and vigilant as ever in our desire to achieve the targets we set. There are plans in the pipeline, for example, that will expose the forum to a much wider audience ('legitimately'), so hopefully the membership will grow further as a result.

You're right, quality of membership is more important than quantity, although the latter helps the forum grow more as a community. We have some exceptionally knowledgeable contributors who don't appear on the bigger, well-established, forums and as such our members have access to information which isn't readily available elsewhere. This is part of what makes us different.

Anyway, old chap, it's good to hear from you again so please post more and lurk less in future!

Marco.