Is this when you have "arrived??"

Gumbydammit, which Benz MC are you using? I have the Grado Ref. Sonata and was thinking of a posible change to MC. BTW, being brought to tears while listening to any music should not be considered embarassing. It happens to me every now and again, just depends on my mood. I can listen to the same piece one day, and feel all of the emotions swell up inside, and on another day, it's just another good track.

I almost cried when my daughter wanted to bake her cookies in my brand new DVD player. DVD survived that assault only because the cookie could not fit in the "oven".
My wife thought it was a tear of joy and comely laid her head on my shoulder while I almost fainted from blood pressure.

I cried inside the first time I heard Parson's. I wanted that crap turned off(I have the same reaction with Beck, Bjork and Steely Dan).

Gumbydammit. I think you should cut Ghosthouse some slack. He simply said that music played on even a less perfect system can still evoke joy and tears because it is music. I am sure that hearing it more clearly will more likely produce that response than if it is heard on less synergized systems. Your friend may not have issues. He just may be emotionally willing to let the music sweep him away. I can cry when Eddie Fisher sings "Oh My Papa" or the Hollies sing "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother" or Madeleine Peyroux sings Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love." And then there is Hiliary Hahn's play of Vaughan Williams "A Lark Ascending". Tears because of the beauty.
I think you have arrived because, if it is reproduced well, that is all the better and even may be the key to releasing the full emotion... but I think like Ghosthouse that it's ultimately about the music.

All the big, bad ,strong and mean men really don't cry now do they? No to show emotion is weak and frail and one with emotional issues. Real men don't CRY DAMMIT!!!!!!!!

Some of you Srong men have not creid in your whole life accept when you were little BOYS so you see little boys are the only one's who cry. When you feel that little boy emotion you fight it back and hold that tear in because, DAMMIT Im a MAN yes I am....... and I don't want to be seen with emotional problems.

Anyway I bet a CDP with a SS amp would have made him want to leave early and not come back so your on the right track. =8^)