I need your input.
For 2005 I started a page in the 1801 section titled "Customer Community". I would like to fill this page with all of my previous 1801 customers. There are about 100-150 previous 1801 customers. I have this information on paper via envelopes, notes, and such in my financial records. I also have some contact information in my email account. However, I lost much of this information in a computer crash that caught me off-guard last summer
I was having some minor computer issues, so I decided to take my computer to the local computer guys for a peek. Well, I neglected to use the seatbelt for the computer (dumb
) . I had to slam the breaks really hard. My computer whacked the dashboard of my truck then went head-first on the floor of my pickup truck. My heart "sunk". I lost darn near everything - even the power supply.
Sure, I can smile and laugh about this situation now, but rebuilding pieces of a computer is very time consuming. The result is that my email files are gone.
Anyhow, to my point... I would really like to fill my Customer Community web page with previous 1801 customers.
http://www.ellisaudio.com/Customer%20Community.htmI am doing this for a few reasons. First, I believe fundmentally that audioholics don't like to "drink" alone. It's much better to listen and chat with someone else in the local community. I certainly realize this. I sincerely hope that folks will make social conections via the customer list on my page. I visited with a gent about 1 week about about modifying Jolida amplifiers. They guy lived 2 miles from me and we didn't know about each-other. We had a wonderful chat together. I don't believe this happens enough. There are so few hifi guys that often the only audio related discussion we share is at the local hifi shop.
I believe this is less than ideal for a couple reasons. First, I know their time is valuable. What follows is that I feel obligated to buy something. The sad part is that they don't have anything that I want. I haven't entered a hifi shop in about 2 years. They have neither the gear or knowledge that interestests me. This latter part, knowledge, is very key.
I think my customers have a huge un-tapped knowledge base. The system information listed on my page will provide an excellent "index" for this knowledge. A good hifi audioholic can easily be as smart as any guy in a commercial store about hifi gear and such. Often his equipment will sound equally good, or perhaps better than the hifi shop's equipment. The very best part in all of this is that the ordinary average hifi audioholic 1801 customer is totally unbiased. He isn't selling anything, and has no self interest or bias
Further, I am noticing that many of my customers have exposure to audio gear that is totally foreign to me. It makes much more sense to ask someone about Boulder cables that actually uses them.
My personal self-interest in the Customer Community page is that I want future customers to contact current customers about system application questions. Approximately 1/3rd of the questions I receive from people considering the 1801s relates to how they will sound in application x, y, z. I can respond to these questions, but often there is someone else who can better address these queries.
Please send me any/all information you are willing to share for the Customer Community page via email. Your email address will be encoded in Java. A very good web designer told me this method ensures that spam seeking programs won't find this email and use it.
Also, please don't think your system is too "humble" to be listed on this page. Roughly 1/2 of 1801 customers use the 1801s on consumer grade source gear. All of these people ask me about their gear before they purchase. I also get asked about Home Theater and center channels very often. In both regards, someone who uses this type of gear can answer questions much better than me.
If you don't have a picture, don't worry about it. I don't need a picture. Further, ugly speakers and pretty speakers sound equally good
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If you have any questions about this matter, please post them here.
Sincerely,
