The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig?

I had the musicians over to our house after a string-quartet concert, some pieces also with piano and/or winds. They gravitated to the audio room, and we were up until 2:00 a.m. listening to music.

“Even when it’s off, it looks like a science experiment!”

I treasure this compliment to this day.

(Tubed DAC, preamp and amp - 21  tubes in all)

I don’t really care about the compliments, I get those every time somebody listens to my rig, but when somebody calls and asks for my help to put together a system because I inspired them that really makes me happy.

I had a room at the RMAF using my own personal system and got a few remarks.

“Though I've heard the Wilson-Benesch Curve floorstanders many times before, I found that they sounded spectacularly good as driven by Kara Chaffee's amazing deHavilland tube electronics . Nothing I heard at RMAF, save perhaps for the far more expensive Vandersteen/ARC system, could touch this rig for sheer midrange purity, detail, three-dimensionality ." Chris Martens TAS on the 2009 show.

Best compliment “I just pissed my pants”. After playing Ahmad Jamal live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985.  Opening track ‘Yellow Fellow’, on vinyl at concert level. 

I still laugh when I think about it. 

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