Remotes: Who needs 'em?


Just bought a nice used pre-amp, make and model unimportant, that is aesthetically and functionally what was needed for one of my systems EXCEPT... Other than a bedridden or legless person, what kind of inadequate, drooling idiot would need a 56-button remote? What happened with our society twenty years ago to convince marketers and manufacturers (no right-thinking person would EVER ask for this crap) that a remote with literally dozens and dozens of little buttons would ever appeal to anyone who is attempting to operate a machine for the purpose of listening to music? The only sane remote I have ever used is that on my 1985-vintage HK CDP (owned for historical reference only!), which has no more buttons than a touch-tone phone of the same era.

It is taking all of the reserve I have to avoid crushing the remote underfoot and pretending that it never existed. I'll get my lazy azz up and handle the limited faceplate controls manually rather than even open the separate manual for the remote, thank you very much! I came very close to purchasing the Vincent SA-31 and taking a hit on frequency extremes precisely because it does NOT have this ludicrous appliance included (and which a recent reviewer bemoaned the lack of...) just to reward them for actually having the chutzpah to offer a reasonably-simple component. Who is reponsible for the idea that every device I own must have a remote? Where can I send the mob of fellow luddites with their pitchforks and torches?

I listen to relax, not to go from my electronically-enhanced workplace to sit and fiddle with some idiotic plastic cell-phone wannabee!
morgenholz
I find that many customers can live without a full function remote for their pre or integrated.

However, most want volume and/or mute remote control.

There still remains a number of "purist" manufacturers who have not yet acceded to the remote world and lose business to competitive brands. Some of them are planning to introduce remote models; others remain steadfast and have no intentions of doing so.

PS to the OP- try decaf
I feel the same way about automatic transmissions and cell phones,where is Jim Bridger when we need him....
I used to "hate" auto transmissions till I ruptured my achilles tendon and I couldn't drive my car for 100 days.

I laughed at blue-toothed cell phones till I got one of those too.

Luddites deserve what they don't get :)
Blasphemy!

Why, a man’s remote ranks right up there with air-conditioning and pizza. I don’t think I want to be associated with you!