The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig?

Most of the comments on my system have come during dinner, when the music was playing in the background in the den just off the dining room. Usually it is someone asking what is the cd that was playing. When I tell them it is vinyl, they are always surprised. then they realize why I kept getting up every 20 minutes or so.

Other comments from the dinner table are "that sounds real" or "that sounds live" or "where is that music coming from" or "my cd doesnt sound like that".

I think the relaxation of the dinner table allows a new person to let the music into their subconscious differently than if you just plop them in front of the speakers and tell them to listen. In the latter case, they dont know what they are listening for, and it is an imposition. In the former, it sort of sneaks up on them, as they recognize the quality of what they are hearing.

Best complement I got was someone asking "Is that someone in the other room? You didn't tell us this would be a jam session!"

Atmasphere, I heard your amps in the Classic Audio Room at Capital Audifest and will now try to do you one better:

It was very lifelike and just about as good as it gets!

Best so far is... "Are those regular cd's or speacial order cd's"?
Second best... "Now I see why people spend crazy money on stereo equipment. I didn't know that there was a three dimensional soundstage to stereo".

No compliments. I'm a solitary man...