Disappointing Evening

Don't be disappointed, you're time and energy was invested for your pleasure. Serious music listeners would have recognized the difference in sound quality of your tube system. It's not your fault that these particular folks have a limited sense of discernment and probably do not do serious listening. You know the old saying, you can bring the horse to the water, but you can't make it drink.

Horses got big heads but not much for brains .I heard it several times and it has been documented , that horses when in panic,they run back in their burning stables to their death after they have been rescued from the fire .This phenomenon occurs mostly at night fires.

If I was a movie director, I think this is the time I would say "CUT"!!

hi cyclonicman:

please don't confuse lack of interest with lack of discernment. a person can detect a difference between quality of things, without being interested.

its a matter of priorities. where the priority is high, one will be more dilligent, where priority or interest is low, one may be more superficial in one's evaluation or not be concerned of the difference.

the fact the sound is not important to mnay people or the fact that the size, clarity, or color of a video image is of little concern, where someone would be content to view a movie on a less than clear or lifelike color image does not imply a deficit in intelligence or dicsrnment, but is rather an expresion of taste or lack thereof.

this aapplies to food as well, wher someone is content to eat a hamburger and does not desire a more expensive cut of meat.

the more expensive steak, e.g, is easily recognizable but someone may not care to eat it.

in general, one who does not strive for the best is not always ignorant of what the best is.

Mrtennis your points are valid but if am confused it is only because the guests did remark about the "good music" from the B&O system. This led me to believe that they were interested and appreciate good sound quality. Perhaps I am mistaken and they were referring to the musical piece itself as "good music" and not the system. The post is really not about my perception and I am not putting anyone down. My intention was to uplift the poster, Mark, because he felt insulted and disappointed and I have been there myself. Perhaps maybe his guests weren't interested as you say. I may be wrong, but I tend to think that like myself, Mark also read into their comments that they were interested in high quality audio. He sounds like a gracious host and tried to turn them on to a higher quality tube system that he probably has taken a lot of time and effort to put together. What's the result?, sounds like his efforts were not appreciated and quietly rebuffed. It doesn't sound to me like Mark was beating his guests over the head with this. I understand what you are saying and it seems to me like you are a person that sees both sides of the coin. The truth is that neither you or I were there so based on the post, I am siding with Mark. It just seems to me that interested or not, it really doesn't take that much effort to be polite.