When showing your system to others, what do you do

If they have children , I always invite them to touch the 845 transmitting tubes while the amps warm up. That usually quiets the room, well after the crying and whimpering subsides anyway. I should have ten or twelve minutes until the paramedics show up, too short for Mahler or Dvorak, so I usually bring out the Holly Cole. As most of you know, there is enough competition here on the 'gon for cool gear. A few minutes of the Colester should cure the neophites of any audiophile leanings. If they are made of sterner stuff and look like they are still hanging in, I usually expound on the virtues of $2000.00 power cords. Before you know it, I can hear the sirens faintly in the distance.

I like to play somthing they heard 10,000 times before.
Usually, pretty impressed when they hear all the sounds they have been missing.

That's the best stereo I ever heard they usually say.

I usually CRANK something heavy and stare at them with a dumb look on my face while wiggling my eyebrows up and down.

What works for me is:
* First I get their basic taste in music - Rock? Jazz? Classical? Female vocals? Monks moaning? * Then I play something in that genre, hopefully something/someone they've heard or heard of before, something that is recorded and played reasonably well
* Then I play something they brought or that they know very well, ALL THE WAY THROUGH
* Then a little discussion of what they heard, what I heard, then possibly a replay.

To me the biggest thing NOT to do is trot out your audiophile crapola non-music demo disc sounds not heard in nature at the pawnshop got the music in me thunderstorm trains 1812 cannons direct to disc anything royale
listen to the airconditioner come on in this quiet part
the music suuuuucks but oh my listen to the recording garbage
and try to impress them with it. Give them something in a genre they know and love.
The MUSIC is what matters - that'll hook them every time!

I had someone tell me once that he bought a real high end system from Rent a Center. Funny stuff.