Tell us compliments received on your system...

Well, my little newbie system pales in comparison to many of yours, but...most of my friends are in their 20's, the CD/mp3 generation and have never heard high end components, much less any vinyl not spun on a platic $30 turntable and not scratched and filthy. It's not even the verbal compliments but the stares the GyroSE gets. They look directly at it...then they stoop down and look under it...then they go in for a closeer look...then..."this is a record player? It's gorgeous, whetever it is!"

Second favorite (pointing at the tube amps) "what are those bubbles for? I like the colors!"

My neighbor downstairs has actually taken an interest in audiophilia and is saving for Maggies lately (he wants to start with SS and ribbons to give my tubes and boxes a run for the money, heh). Every time he has a new friend over he has to come up and show my system off...which is fine with me! I scramble to get a record ready everytime I hear footsteps coming up the stairs and a faint "just WAIT until you see his turntable, HEY BRIAN, SHOW HIM/HER YOUR TURNTABLE!" Hehe...my friends are fun ;)

Newbee thanks for being a replacement..I do not sell my wares on the Net..I am all about the total solution..Selling only a single element to a client and having them implement that single piece into some UFO system with horrendous acoustics is not how I want to be represented, nor the products that I choose to represent. Thanks for looking out for everyone..I am sure, with you at the watchful helm, all may feel at ease..Tom.

"I thought records were supposed to suck?" or "Where is the record noise?" (it was a dead quiet LP) The first comment was my favorite. (Again, like dirty, my friends are of the current mp3 generation andhave never heard decent vinyl playback) I also get a lot of the obligatory "it sounds like musicians are in the room" comments. I love those too.

From my girlfriend: "I really like the way it makes John Prine sound so cynical!" From a non-audiophile: "Pretty nice for such old amplifiers - I mean with tubes and everything. Does anyone still make them?"

And "Wow, I never heard 16-bit sound so good!" from a SACD-crazed new acquaintance...

A couple of friends visited our place for the first time about a month back, and after dinner, both of them got up without saying anything and started dancing in the middle of the living room!...OK, they were pretty loaded on booze, but what the heck.
Another of the missus's friends came over shortly after the arrival of the Magnepans and sat in the living room looking right at the speakers, and said:

"I hear you've bought new speakers?"
"Yes, That's right"
"when do they arrive?"
"They are hear already"
"Oh...where are they?"

Well, not really a compliment but I pissed myself anyway.