Every Audiophile's Turn-on


The Germans have a phrase "es ist sehr kompliziert" to refer, usually, to the complexity involved in turning on a mature audiophile system (LOL).
SO, this thread is devoted to the topic of turning on your audiophile system.
Suggest the following procedure for providing comparative information; Agoners can use the figures to determine where they stand on a range from "simple" to "ridiculous."
Here are the categories:
1. Number of component boxes (no loudspeakers)
2. Number of remotes
3. Button strikes necessary to complete the system turn-on
4. Total time (start to finish, including delays) necessary to enable all functions within your system
Here's my score:
1. 9 boxes to handle internet, TV, music collection, and video collection
2. 6 remotes
3. 20 button strikes to enable entire system
4. 1:15 minutes/seconds each time started
This is a stereo system that uses as many automated triggers as possible. The final summary is, therefore:
9/6/20/1:15
Let me know how your system turn-on compares.
And perhaps a COMPETITION is in order. I leave it to my fellow Agoners to decide whether the longest, most complex turn-on is the winner (= most toys and flexibility) or the simplest and shortest wins (gets to the media fastest).
AND, I believe that KDude66 told me that he would provide a Lyngdorf 3400 to the winner...
...but, maybe, we should check with KDude about that (LOL)...

craigl59
Hmmm 🤔 this is for 2 channel music (cd or LP) only ... none of that new fangled streaming nonsense 

1. 17 boxes (all active powered components)
2. 3 remotes (aren’t remotes rather like automatic cars, for those who can’t drive stick)
3. 10 button or switch presses to play a CD or LP (not including setting level) - that’s from standby, 16 from a cold start
4. 3 minutes to start up (the VTL monoblocks warming up)

frankly the system stem is overly complex, but the complexity has crept up over time and all plays a part 😉
folkfreak:
Impressive; the boxes build up after a while, don’t they? Assume you keep it in standby as much as possible. I use a Furman LPC Elite to keep all box power either switched or unswitched in order to help startup.
Main System
For CD playing:  

1. Number of component boxes (no loudspeakers):  2 (one power amp and one preamp/ CD player)
2. Number of remotes:  1 (preamp/ CD player) 
3. Button strikes necessary to complete the system turn-on:  3
4. Total time (start to finish, including delays) necessary to enable all functions within your system:  maybe 20 seconds

Main System
For LP playing:  

1. Number of component boxes (no loudspeakers): 4 (two above plus TT and phono preamp)
2. Number of remotes:  1
3. Button strikes necessary to complete the system turn-on:  6
4. Total time (start to finish, including delays) necessary to enable all functions within your system:  maybe 30 seconds

Rich 

rar1:

Neat and elegant; we have an early leader in the shortest turn-on category...