What do you LIKE BEST about your current audio system?

I like what the 833-A triodes do for the bass response of my woofers. My 833-A SET amplifiers are homemade because I could never afford the few commercially made ones available. I run it on 1000 Volts with interstage transformer coupling (Hammond 126B) for a 245 to drive it at zero grid voltage and a Hammond 1642SE output transformer. It was work to perfect it, but I have a design that works beautifully.

I like how honest it is. If the recording allows a deep wide sound stage, the system conveys that. If it's acoustic or horns, it conveys that in the proper space as well. It doesn't sound electronic & I am often able to have dead people performing in the room for me :-). It just sounds real. The amps are Valvet, preamp is Jeff Rowland, speakers are Tekton. The front end consists of Audio Alchemy DAC & phono amps connected to a cambridge transport & a hand made turntable with 2 arms. Phono cartridges vary with my mood. Power for all front end components & preamp is filtered through an exactpower transformer. The power amps (mono blocks & sub amp) come straight out of wall. 

Maggies don't disappear (although they do sound great)...they're simply too large for that, although useful as screens for quick costume changes. Try to change clothes behind my Heresy IIIs...you have to curl up in a ball on the floor. Another thing I like about my hifi pile is that I can induce a coma in 99% of the people I know simply by talking about tubes...a service I'm clearly happy to provide. 

It takes a LOT of space, but if you have enough room to get Maggies well away from the wall behind them (a minimum of 5’, 10’ being much better), they actually can be made to produce images that seems to be "hanging in the air", not coming from nor connected to the panels themselves in any way. What Maggies do better than any other speaker I’ve heard is produce life-size images; a grand piano sounds as huge as it actually is. This is particularly true of the Tympani 3-panel models, the T-IVa version of which I myself own. Same for the new 30.7.

Dynamics, transients, coherence.