Steve,
I sent you a message. Would like to help and have some time to invest.

Would I need a FB account to do this?  

Yeah, I have a page but need to deactivate it.....never use it. I refuse to let the epidemic deprive me of my soul.

Steve let me know that I'm now an "Editor" (perhaps others are?) and I'll soon begin to do some work on the page.

Eric, Alper (and anyone else): please let me know any burning ideas and suggestions, etc. that I can consider implementing. This is going to be fun and I hope we can all make the page "come alive."

Double whammy of goodness for me today: I came home from a day of driving my Dad around to appointments to find my ZROCK2 on the porch! And just 30 minutes of listening with the Taboo Mk IV and the Audize LCD-2s and I can tell it's a magnificent component!

Thanks for the kind words Steve. I'm hoping to breathe life into the page and invite all forum members to check it out and become involved, helping me to expand its scope and presence.

https://www.facebook.com/Decware-292828391138562/

Besides checking in and liking things, is there anything else we can do to help, Lon?

I already pretty regularly tag Decware when I post about my audio setup on FB.

I created two threads on the Facebook page that I could use help on from forum members. One is about room treatment and the other about the Decware digital sources. If you could add appropriate information via replies to the threads I'd be grateful!

https://www.facebook.com/Zenamps/posts/376063619481705

https://www.facebook.com/Zenamps/posts/377097846044949

hashtag #an'ttooproudtobeg

Lon,
You have been doing a fantastic job!  Keep up the great work.  

I did notice the category the Decware page is listed under as being  "Science, Technology & Engineering."  Is this assigned by Facebook or can you alter it.  Seems most consumer audio companies on Facebook are listed under "Electronics," which seems a better fit.  

Just an observation.  Not sure how important it is.

Lon,

Great work on the FB posting.  Keep up the great work.  Some pictures of Steve and his team would probably be helpful if available.  



HK

Lon,

Thanks for posting.  I think personalizing an online business, showing the real folks behind the business is extremely important.  Let's face it connecting with people via social networking or by phone as Steve prefers is very helpful.

Steve is obsessive (in a good way) and passionate about his products. It only takes one call with him to understand this.  Kind of tough to convey this and have found product testimonials to be very effective in conveying Steve, his passion for excellent sounding gear and exceptional products.

HK

Might I also suggest a giveaway to get other people to post in the Decware wall on Facebook?

For example - "Post a pic of your audio setup for a free Decware badge with built in tube straightener! - Random winner will be chosen at the end of the week!"

I bet Steve could find a few of the laser etched Decfest badges or could burn a few more.

Cheap giveaways like stickers, badges, maybe even a hat or shirt are a great way to drive traffic.

Speaking of which - I have a buddy that does custom patches (which are an *in* thing lately) - if I can get an Illustrator file of the Decware Dragon with the logo on it, I can get a quote from him. Hell, I'd want one of those now that I think about it!

Quote:


Yeah, I know nothing about that sorta stuff...hopefully Donnie will chime in.  :)

Hey, why are you all dragging me into this? Lol
Computer stuff is easy, plug it in and turn it on, and don't look at Midget Porn, Ta-Dah.
Room treatments? Make sure that you treat your room well or it might up and bite you like a rabid cur. A good vacuuming and a new coat of paint every few years is how I've treated my room.
Oh yeah, stay the hell away from Facebook, it is nothing but a giant time suck. I don't care what you ate at Arby's for lunch let alone wanting to see it!

Lon/Steve,
I don't see any links to social media on the Decware website.  Definitely need to make it easy for website visitors to find the Decware FB page by prominently displaying the icons/links on the homepage.  Based on what I can tell from the forum, the webpage gets a lot of traffic.  Funneling that to FB and getting folks to like the page would help them keep up with the latest and greatest - being that it is a more dynamic feed of information.  I had no idea Decware had a FB page until Steve created this thread.  

The little things....

Well obviously not everyone feels that way. I'm not crazy about Facebook and resisted a long time. . . . I only really joined because certain family members were on there so much and had abandoned email that I needed to get on there to see what they were doing and communicate with them! And then I found it useful in a number of ways. . . and easy NOT to go overboard.

Steve wants the company to have a presence and I want to help. You can ignore it!

And you may as well have an Instagram account.  Not much more effort as its content will cross pollenate with Facebook, but IG is where it is at these days.  I am not a user of either but run a business that relies on social media as a viable marketing tool.  Since Facebook went to a pay-to-play model a couple years ago, Instagram has provided more bang for the buck.  But as I stated, no reason not to do both as they will share much of the same content. And you will reach a different demographic using Instagram, which will be important for sustained future sales/growth.

I'm still plugging away at the Facebook page. Steve has done a bit of advertising and "boosting" that has generated some (admittedly temporary) increase in traffic to the site. I'm adding reviews from the forum and other material as time allows. (This isn't so far a paid position so I'm not burning the midnight oil slaving away at it! I'm probably averaging an hour a day at the task.)

I added this today which I thought might be interesting, and may lead a few to these forums. And if any of you feel inspired to add posts to this on the Facebook page about your own personal experience, have at it!

Yesterday afternoon I spent a great afternoon with my Dad talking about all the things that we have shared opinions on and passions for including politics, family members, books and music. He asked me about this Facebook page and Decware electronics and what music reproduction means to me. And this got me to thinking about how important the playback of recordings has become to me and how big a role Decware High Fidelity Engineering has played in my listening life.

I first encountered Decware when I had stopped performing in a few bands that I was working with as a drummer and also as an engineer and producer of demo recordings and recordings of appearances and rehearsals. As a replacement for the visceral impact music-making had on my life I fell deeply into collecting recordings and studying them, mostly of the jazz music that had ensnared my interest in my teens and beyond, I started to pay close attention to the sound quality of playback of my recordings as I discovered the “better” they sounded the closer to the feeling and force of the music I felt. And the better the playback became, the more deeply I could listen into more difficult music to experience such as the earliest three decades or so of jazz that were recorded in more primitive manners.

Eventually my quest led me to an interest in exploring “single-ended triode” amplification and my budget restraints led me to investigate Decware. I bought the 27th Zen amp Steve Deckert built and assembled a little system in a small bedroom to envelop me and draw me deeply into my study of jazz.

One early stand out characteristic of the Zen amp that I discovered was that I could hear separation of instruments in these earlier recordings far better than ever before. One of my growing (and still occurring) fascinations in jazz is with the music of Duke Ellington. Ellington combined the sound of horns into unique textures and forms. With previous amplification these would seem a brick wall, a screen. With the Zen amp these were outlined more clearly as individual instruments blended together and the nuances of the blend and the uniqueness of the sound were clearer and well-delineated. Over time I began to see how this type of detail and display enriched the learning experience and I explored the Decware line of sources, pre-amplification, amplification and speaker products and my appreciation for and enjoyment of the music I played blossomed further.

And I see that as an element in common with all the owners of Decware equipment I have encountered over the last twenty years. The components bring us in communion with the music and we hear and feel the music with vivid impact. Though we listen to many different types of music, we each share the joy of the playback, we each have been drawn into the soundscapes and the intent of the music, we each find the listening an integral part of our lives. Decware is for music lovers. We can become perhaps a bit too obsessed with the Decware hardware because we see it as essential to our bond with music, and we can share and relate to each other as a community because of our respect and affection for music and this pathway of musical reproduction.

So thanks to Steve and Bob and the Decware staff, and I know that any music lover will find a welcome at the forums where we convene, the Decware Forums.  https://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb22/YaBB.pl

Thanks my friend.

Thanks Justin!

I posted this today on the Facebook page. The page is still percolating along. . . .

TWO SIBLING AMPLIFIERS: The DECWARE TORII MK III and The DECWARE TABOO MK IV.
Your Decware Facebook page Editor compares two amplifiers with the DECWARE HR-1 speakers.

Today I pulled the first Decware Torii Mk III amplifier I purchased (I have two) out of storage and connected it up in place of my Decware Taboo Mk IV to power my Decware HR-1 speakers. It's been several years since it had been in use but it fired right up and gave great sound. I used my Oppo UDP-205 for TV and video sources and my PS Audio DirectStream Memory Player and DirectStream DAC for music sources. Essential to the sound is the Decware ZTPRE, the Decware ZBIT and the Decware ZROCK2.

The last two months I had set aside my other Torii Mk III amplifier and used the Taboo Mk IV amplifier to power my HR-1 speakers. At first I was afraid that the Taboo would not have enough power to fill the fairly large room I have my system in, but surprisingly I have all the power I need to reach appropriate loudness. The Taboo really captured my fancy with its "Single-ended Pentode" sound. There was not the dark, surging glory of the Torii that I got to re-experience today, but instead a flowing lively stream of music. There was less of a distinctive "left and right" that the Torii so clearly paints today, and instead a centered sprawl of sound projected across the room. It's hard to voice these differences, and I realize why audio reviewers sometimes seem so wordy and sometimes draw references to other pursuits such as wine and food tasting to describe the nature of reproduced sound. But there's no mistaking the family resemblance between these two very different amplifiers. Each has a vivid presence, each has a forceful heartbeat, each dishes out detail in a natural way.
Two different amplifiers, brothers in a family that has honesty and earnestness as their goal. I am so glad to have BOTH. And so glad to have EITHER.

Right Steve, I totally can imagine that happening. That leads me to conclude two things that I think after two decades with Decware amps I can consider personal truths: 1. All thee amps are excellent and 2. all these amps share a family set of defining quality characteristics.

There are many combinations to get great sound within the family of amps and speakers. Which is a great thing about the Decware line.

Lon and Steve - I only opened a FB account to get photos and updates on my nieces and nephews. Any yeah, I post stuff sometimes. BUT, I really love the Decware presence and postings. Alot! Keep it going, it is growing. Good work Lon!! Enjoy those amps and keep us posted. Happy listening, Chris.