What was your most engaging audio experiance


I have been an audio crazy for 45 years and have had experiences where I thought I heard live music in a room when in fact it was an audio system. This experience which I call "a critical mass" experience suggests that the equipment, the room, the ambiance were all in perfect harmony to create this illusion for me.
I was in fact hearing an Mercury Living Presence solo piano LP played threw biamped Magneplanes 20.1 s powered by ARC Ref 300 monoblocks and at VT100 MKIII.
I will add that I was unaware of an audio system in the adjoining room. A fact which may have contributed to my experiance.
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Hope this does not bore everyone. I prefer vinyl, but my most engaging experience by far was listening to a Beethoven string quartet sourced from an unmodified Harman Kardon dvd 47 player through a Sherwood 8000 4 tube receiver thru AE1 speakers, and feeling each instrument individually and together was in the room, repeatedly. Second best, a speaker many years ago that I think was called servo static from Infinity.