There are so few new owners these days that I think we're forgetting how to help them! If empeg ownership becomes an elitest clique where folks are derided for not phrasing their plea for help quite right, then I guarantee there will be no community at all before long. We should welcome new owners with open arms - that's one more player pumping out tunes instead of rusting in a garage.

I hope our long standing and often esteemed empeg friends remember back to a time not so many years ago when I and others laboured through thousands of posts of repetitive questions to help get this community off the ground. Believe me, some of today's highly respected owners were a support nightmare at times

This post isn't aimed at Mark (I'm not sure I was ever called upon to help him with any problem - it was more the other way around!) but I think this thread is touching on an emerging theme within our group.

Rob