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Oh dear..... Well first of all, I too will welcome Greg to the forum. Indeed, I agree that the forum has potential to be better if we are all more positive. Although, I think referring to existing members as being 'anal' and a 'bunch of losers' is perhaps not the best way to enhance positivity levels. Also, I think the attack on baddog was unfairly taken out of context, so inaccurate, and I suspect breaks forum rules in terms of abusing someone with respect to their nationality. Plus, I have been on this forum long enough to know that baddog has typically been a very positive and helpful contributor.

Also, some balance. I can think of many times that there has been to much winging on this forum, but that said, it is very clear that in some instances the winging has actually yielded positive results. Someone coming to the Expert series now in 2017 may find it very hard to understand the utter frustration that someone buying a brand new expert in 2013 would have experienced. The issues with AIR and frightening bursts of white noise being the main problem, but there were other issues with firmware updates, the configurator bugs, and so on. I know for a fact that the 'winging' on this forum has brought these issues to Devialet's attention and thus has helped bring the issues to resolution. Devialet do not contribute on this forum, but they do read it. I too love the charm of Océane at Devialet support, but this does not change the fact that Devialet support themselves are not supported by Devialet's technical team. Many times I have sent support requests, and the responses have been poor in the extreme. OK, it looks like I am just winging here now, but trust me, I am just trying to give some balance and perspective. Not long ago in another thread I was accused of 'coming in wearing the French flag', so you see, with things Devialet I am often the number 1 evangelist for the brand.

Some positive for this forum? The AIR petition, this definitely pushed Devialet into sorting out the problems with AIR. If you like Roon, one year ago Devialet were pretty much saying that they were not interested in collaborating with a third party software provider. Much whinging on this forum, and we now have AIR integrated in Roon and it looks like Roon is coming to the streamer board. Other general positives of this forum, many times I have seen people stuck with Devialet related issues, Devialet support have not helped, but forum members here have chipped in and solved the said issue. Some very good things happen on this forum, I could go on here. So for those who want to make this forum a good place, don't forget you are building on something that is, in part at least, already very good indeed.

I will end on the key point though. I participate on some other forums where interesting and useful threads routinely descend into train wrecks, with childish tit for tat abuse and arguments being exchanged. I think that one absolutely remarkable aspect of this forum is just how civil and collaborative it has remained over the last few years. Lets keep it that way.