I like the way you have framed those old piles of wires as both nuisance and inspiration (also I still easily have three boxes of cables hiding in my office, though i think i finally got rid of my reel to reel set up). What strikes me is that we did not really get rid of the complexity, we just buried it. Impedance and gauges have turned into protocols, cloud layers, and software stacks. The abstraction makes the mess less visible in the living room, but it has not gone away. If anything, it multiplied behind a slick interfaces.
I like the way you have framed those old piles of wires as both nuisance and inspiration (also I still easily have three boxes of cables hiding in my office, though i think i finally got rid of my reel to reel set up). What strikes me is that we did not really get rid of the complexity, we just buried it. Impedance and gauges have turned into protocols, cloud layers, and software stacks. The abstraction makes the mess less visible in the living room, but it has not gone away. If anything, it multiplied behind a slick interfaces.
Thanks Andy and I completely agree on the additional complexity. If you find any spare reels, lemme know!