A Well-Sorted Rig

[lucretius]

41 minutes ago, Teresa said:

 

Before @fas42 I had never heard or read anyone, anywhere ever refer to an audio system as a rig. I also have never heard the expression well-sorted audio system, well-sorted music system or well-sorted computer system. I believe these are unique to @fas42.

 

A quick google search uncovered these audio sites (not an exhaustive list) using the term "well-sorted" (or "well sorted"):

https://www.tonepublications.com/old-school/ten-best-buys-in-vintage-audio/

https://www.audioexcellence.ca/blog/2018/5/18/a-mcintosh-for-everyone-the-rs100

https://www.718forum.com/threads/718-with-bose-audio.890/

 

In the context of audio equipment, "well-sorted" means "suitably matched" (system components), the opposite of ill-sorted.

 

As for "rig", amateur radio operators often refer to their equipment setup as a "rig". One dictionary defines "rig" as: an apparatus, device, or piece of equipment designed for a particular purpose.

 

Nonetheless, I am still puzzled as to what a "well-sorted computer system" is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[lucretius]

12 hours ago, fas42 said:

I only started using the term "rig" because I was seeing it being used in other audio forums, very regularly ...in the sense of it having some meaning, I would use "rig" as being the combination of various components, merely connected together with only a basic consideration of how there may be negative consequences, from, say, one component interfering with another. A "system", by contrast, is where all those sorts of factors are given full or much better consideration - in this sense, active speakers like the Dutch & Dutch units have every right to be called, a system.

 

A "well sorted computer system" is easy to recognise, because ones that are not rouse high levels of fury in the users 😀 - take an older version of Windows, try and do multiple things, at once ... and feel the levels of agitation rise ... 😉.

 

 

Re the definition of "system", this dictionary, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/system?q=system, states it best:

• A group of things, pieces of equipment, etc. that are connected or work together.

Another definition from https://www.lexico.com/definition/system:

• A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole.

Another definition from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/system:

• A group of devices or artificial objects or an organization forming a network especially for distributing something or serving a common purpose.

 

It is clear that a bunch of audio components assembled together to playback music, etc. forms a "system".  The definition does not include (or exclude) "all those sorts of factors are given full or much better consideration".  The latter is Frank's personal definition.

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

[lucretius]

22 minutes ago, RickyV said:

ah, didn’t know that.
well-sorted and “ makeshift or hasty way” may not go well together.

 

I don't know about that.  "Well-sorted" just means the components are "suitably matched"; it doesn't imply their was careful selection. The components could be suitably matched despite being put together in a hasty way. ☺️

[lucretius]

36 minutes ago, mansr said:

 

Of course, that 'rig' is a verb!

[lucretius]

2 minutes ago, daverich4 said:

It was used as a noun long before Ham Operators used it. 
 

https://www.etymonline.com/word/rig

 

Of course, but when was that noun first used to mean, generally,  a collection of separate components connected together to achieve a single goal?

[lucretius]

17 minutes ago, RickyV said:

This might go for hifi but not for high-end audio.

 

You lost me.  🙁

[lucretius]

14 hours ago, RickyV said:

Synoniemen van Hi-fi

• accurate
• CD player
• high-fidelity
• personal hi-fi
• personal stereo
• stereo system
• tape player
• tape recorder

 

Synoniemen van high-end

• excellent.
• fine.
• first-class.
• first-rate.
• good quality.
• superior.
• tiptop.

 

So to me hifi is basic and high end is  superior.

 

Now I get it. You have a faulty thesaurus.