I think perhaps people can be judgemental about others’ systems so not mentioning it avoids that. As for keeping the whole profile secret I don’t know why. It seems a bit odd to me.
The nature of this thread will only further your confusions.
That’s excellent Richard, it now works. Thanks very much.
I always thought people did not put their system information on-line for security reasons. They do not want to provide a listing of their expensive system components to thieves who may lurk on the internet.
With some of the systems already listed on the forum I think mine would be way down the list of any potential thieves. I do wonder why some people don’t bother to put any information in their profile whatsoever ever.
The idea that listing equipment on a forum such as this is a security risk is a load of balls.
Apart from no address being listed, house breaking thieves have no interest in studying internet forums & even less interest in stuff they can’t flog off cheap & fast. Yes they might break in to get your car keys, cell phones, portable radios (maybe) some valuables such as watches & jewellery & thats about it. They have less interest in TV’s these days, let alone black boxes with no flashing lights.
I’ve just put my system on, I wasn’t convinced that people would want the fine detail of my non-Naim items, sort of thought that my thoughts and taking part was more important.
Other than Facebook, a popular tool for finding out when people stupid enough to publicise their lives online are away enjoying a holiday! (Though Facebook may not count as a forum.)
However, the sort of people who steal to order may well simply google whatever they are looking for, when things posted on the Naim forum will appear, which can help them find a target. I guess (but it is only a guess) that it is likely only to apply to relatively high end/expensive gear.
Some of us don’t use our real names at least in part for security reasons, because we are free with information about things we possess.
Yes it a possibility, but a list of Naim equipment, many with not even the country listed, is hardly a target.
My entry shows Oxfurdshy’r, OK go find me, it’s a big county.
Years ago stupid people would post they’re going away only to return to find they’d been robbed.
Some people are careful not to say on Facebook that they’re going away - then daily while they’re away post pictures of themselves or family recognisably somewhere foreign!
Indeed - but the risk comes if your real name is Mike B-something, and a post on another site gives some other snippet about you, and maybe something else on another, etc, and maybe the register of electors gives full name and address, or if not that, some club of which you were once a member before data protection laws got tightened had perhaps published a list that is still floating about somewhere… Now if you’re just a QB owner there’s little to be worth anyone’s while - but if a search for Statement showed that a Mike B possibly Oxfordshire has a surround sound system with 5 of them, the painstaking search might be worthwhile. My point was that these days more and more there is a lot about most of us to be found, however careful we think we are.
My father in law has only just connected to the internet, he’s been scared they (whoever they might be, deep state?) are going to find out all about him. I pointed out that google has already mapped his house and that I can track him down from home without too much effort he gave in. Mind you whenever they visited he was always more than happy to spend hours on our network.
Think some of us are too easy with some details on line.
This forum is the only social media account I have.
Wow, didn’t realise paranoia figured so highly amongst Naim owners! Seriously, hifi does not figure up there with art & antiques amongst the burgling fraternity. It’s far too heavy, specialist and identifiable. In my 8 years on CID, working in some pretty affluent areas of Essex, I never once encountered a burglary involving more than a £200 music centre!
You guys are giving far too much credit to the brain power of the average burglar. Most are kids or junkies who dispose of what they can easily carry away for perhaps 5% of its true value. The most common modus operandi these days is for them to carry self addressed and stamped jiffy bags into which they place the jewellery, cash and credit cards they’ve found. They spend no more than 10 minutes inside, then its out, find the nearest post box and on to the next property. Carefully disconnecting huge 20+ kg boxes, loading them into a van (unboxed!) then delivering to an afficionado who cares not about their provenance happens only in dreams and films!
It reminds me of the night burglars tried to break into the Naim factory (needless to say, they were unsuccessful and had fled). They had targeted the connecting corridor between the old and new buildings. Turned out they had been trying to steal the plasma screen that had been put there temporarily after returning from a show. What they had completely missed though was the trolley full of just completed NAC552s that were awaiting listening tests by Roy, which was right next to where the Plasma screen had been placed.
Different countries,.different experiences.
In Sweden we only have 10 million inhabitants,.so here we are more careful.
My friend @Music_Lover had burglary and got rid of his entire expensive music-system,.this happened several years ago now.
He openly wrote what he had on a Swedish forum,.he no longer does that.
He had a nickname,.not his real name,but he is also very known during his nickname on various Swedish hifi-forums.
So in Sweden we are cautious…!!!
/Peder🙂
I remember you telling that story before. In our road, before we moved in, there was a thief who went into various houses and all they took was women’s underwear. One of the houses contained a Nait 2.
Loks more like you have a better class of burglars …
,…Don,.as we say in Sweden,“they’re probably not the sharpest knife in the box.”
But on our biggest sales-page on the internet in Sweden for used hifi,.so people warn from time to time that they have been deceived by someone.
So it’s probably no bad advice to give,.to try to be a little careful.
/Peder🙂
I’ve just perused a few threads where I came across a substantial number of “hidden replies”.
The odd time I’m tempted to click on them to see the reply and universally my decision to ignore is vindicated, IMO obviously.
.sjb