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What does your Virtual System page say about you? 

I was browsing through virtual systems today, and noticed three major categories:

  1. People who list their components from speakers to source(s)
  2. People who list their components from source(s) to speakers
  3. People who appear to have a hodgepodge of equipment listed

I would hypothesize that people in group #1 belong to the "speakers first" school of system design, and people in group #2 are "source first".

Are the people in group #3 indifferent? Disorganized? Or listed their equipment in either "speakers first" or "source first" order initially, but as their systems evolved, removed things they sold and then tacked new acquisitions to the end of the list?

If you find yourself groups 1 or 2, can you confirm or refute the hypothesis?

If you are in group 3, what's your methodology? Did your system evolve over time? Or is the listing order just not important to you?

Not sure there are any deep psychological implications, but I was just curious.

(Yes, I know I don't have a virtual system listed. I am currently moving too frequently to get a setup I'm not embarrassed to photograph; I will add a virtual system listing hopefully near the end of this year)
 

sfgak
overthemoon
439 posts
 

Mine order is influenced by timing of system upgrades. I originally put it in order of stuff starting at the top of my rack going down then out😀

aewarren
671 posts
 

Net time I see some school kids hanging around outside my house, I'll grab one and have him help me post my system. Until then, I'll just keep on spinning records, something I understand.

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snilf
215 posts
 

Very surprised by these responses. I'd have thought that audiophiles were compulsive perfectionists who never do anything with their systems that they can't justify with elaborate arguments. 

For me, I list components in order of their importance for sound quality. Therefore, speakers first, then the room, then amplification, source, cables, etc. The "etc." includes silly tweaks (cable risers, Schumann Resonance Generators, and so on).

I do have a virtual system, by the way, with 25 pictures and a narrative of over 5,500 words. But I've long since closed it to general viewing.

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tony1954
1,110 posts
 

I uploaded the images based on the serial numbers (in ascending order) of the particular component.

I originally had them in an alphabetical sequence, but that seemed slightly weird to me.

Hee. Hee.

 

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