I am starting to get the feeling that I need to find a new audio forum. Yesterday's unexpected shutdown left me a little miffed, and quite honestly I am getting tired of the drama involved with the AV123 community. I have a feeling that I will be spending alot more time here at Audiocircle in 2009, not by choice but out of necessity. It's just not fun anymore. No doubt that I will miss the comrade of many of my friends at AV123, but such is life.
I'm in the same boat, but if you look around you may find a few people who spend time at AC that you know. I haven't had a lot of free time lately, so my forum reading has been severely curtailed anywhere, but I do try to pop in for a quick browse here and up until recently av123 to see if any threads interest me or whatnot. Seeing the forums completely shut down by CHOICE just boggles my mind. Makes me wonder if this so-called forum expert MLS has been talking to made this particular call, as it seems like a really bad decision to me. Most of this has been hashed out in this thread, so I won't say much more than that I've been becoming increasingly disillusioned with AV123 and their ability to produce quality product over the last year, and this latest forum shutdown move is pretty much the nail in the coffin for me. I had been planning an HT system around their 525T product (and more importantly for the sake of this discussion, an announced but not-in-production matching product), but I think I'm going to start looking seriously at alternatives now. I just have no more faith left.
I honestly hope they can turn things around and get back to what made me interested in the company in the first place, but in the meantime, I think I'll spend my money and free time elsewhere for now.
PS: When are you starting the Backpacking thread in the Sport's Bar, SetterP?!
