Picking up on Nick's point, this forum occasionally transcends Meridian and hifi in general. We've occasionally strayed into politics and found ways of managing ourselves to keep it civilised and socialble. There was the idea of a separate forum to manage "other stuff" in July. Is this something worth exploring as part of the convention idea?

More specifically, I don't think it's fair or reasonable to ask/expect Meridian to put on a private hifi show for us. I doubt there's a business return in it for them (we've already bought and are highly likely to do so again!) A lot of members have detailed, informed, interests in areas M don't seem to want to go or don't want to talk about until they are ready for market and I can't see that changing.

A lot of us value people like Des and Ed and maybe we could invite them and colleagues along. If, as part of that, we could investigate some of the issues and confusion we al get into around setup, configuration, sound potential, etc., that could be interesting.

I'm probably saying this badly but I'd like this to happen. I feel it's best driven by the forum, perhaps through an organising committee and perhaps with a "workshop" approach in selected interest areas.

Regards,
Steve

Steve