What do you say to your audiophile friends who say you just listen to your equipment more

Everyone who listens to mine are mostly amazed by the vintage of the gear. Albeit modified and tweaked. They can’t believe a record from the 60s on a turntable from the 60s with amps from the 60s playing through those weird 50s speakers can sound like nothing they have ever heard before. I get a kick out of that.

No friend has ever said that to me.  Even friends who aren’t interested in hi-fi seem to understand I’m in to music and good sound.  And certainly I don’t bother forcing it on anyone who doesn’t care.

Most of my friends are not audiophiles, though a majority are musicians and they LOVE listening to my system.  Every time one of them comes over they expect to be able to check out vinyl or whatever from “the sweet spot.”    It’s really nice to be able to share this stuff.  None of them buy hi end gear themselves but they certainly get why I do.

Never critique another man’s rutabaga unless he asks you. - Old audiophile axiom

Some words and phrases you might consider using if you’re not sure what to say are, Wow!, holy crap!, nice! What did you do to your system?, nice soundstage, Smooth!, Transparent! and Can I look at the CD?

When my system succeeds in releasing the music, that's all I hear - the system disappears. 

I like listening to how my equipment plays my music (finally).

However, more listen to my system. How do I know?
Because I don't listen to full songs.
Skip to another to hear how it sounds...