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

rar1:

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

1: turns on amplifier


The rest is my pc, which has internet streaming and gets turned on anyway.

the dac is always on.

Passive preamp has a relatively static setting.

Lots of analog, but I rarely bother.

simple is best, less is more. Less hardware, simpler hardware..is more sound quality. always. Thus: startlingly lifelike sound that is monumentally captivating in every single note. Forever. It has never failed to do this all important thing, in over a decade. But, it's my dac, our cables, our preamp, our speakers, our acoustics.

No twitchy twitchy, no ritual, no complexity, just tunes.

I had 6/7 channel surround by the mid 80’s, and by 2000-2004, was running highly customized CRT projection HT. one of the top projection systems that was in existence as a home or pro CRT projection set up. Easily in the top 10.

twitchy twitch.

No more twitch, just tunes.

Less is more. The physical realization of Goldberg-gedanken is not the way to go, but one generally has to do it -before one realizes...that there’s nothing there.
# of components,4 incl.TV,DVD/P,Computer & amp/control center...
1 universal remote.
2 button strikes.
Total power up time incl.soft start amp,30 seconds...
Guess I lose since I like things simple.

Audio system - 2 boxes, 2 buttons for on/off, 1 remote

A/V system - primarily voice commands to a Google Home that controls a Harmony Hub. Occasionally use a little 7 button learning remote that has been taught certain frequent commands. Best remote bargain ever, 3 bucks. 1 more simple remote for a streaming service, but rarely use.

Or is there a winner for simplicity?

tls49:

Thread participants decide whether simplest is best or more complicated wins. State your preference and we’ll tally the votes.

Like the Google Home option; have one but have never gotten it connected to the audio stuff. Works great for the phone and sports scores however...

teo_audio:

Do you keep the computer on all of the time? Find this takes several button strikes in my setup. Also, compared the two systems I use and the 5-channel one is more automated and requires less turn-on time than the stereo setup. The stereo setup is much more HEA and the Oppo 105 player injects additional complexity.