“Civilian” reaction to your gear?

I've had the full range of reactions.  Totally ignoring a room with an imposing amount of equipment all the way to "What is all that stuff?"

My Hartley speakers are large 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide.  With that as backdrop....

A cousin of mine comes to the house for a BBQ and wanders into the music room. Comes and gets me and heavily questions me about all the equipment in a very congenial way.  Finally he looks at me and says "Well that's a helluva lot of equipment but where are the speakers?!  So I ask "You don't see any speakers in this room?".  He says no!  I let him chew on that for a minute because I am amused.  And then I point to the speakers.  He says "Those are NOT speakers!". I say sure they are.  He refuses to believe me and acting annoyed storms out of the room.  Go figure.  Sheesh civilians.

Regards,

barts

@barts  “Sheesh civilians”

By just fueling the “them and us” devide, does not prove anything except define your attitude.
 

Just observing your comments. It is not better to educate rather than to evade or dismiss.

@mylogic 

I can only guess that you didn't get the "tongue in cheek" nature of my comment.

"DEVIDE"?

"It is not better to educate rather than to evade or dismiss."  <==  please reread your comment.

Regards,

barts

@barts 

He says "Those are NOT speakers!". I say sure they are.  He refuses to believe me and acting annoyed storms out of the room.  Go figure.  Sheesh civilians.

Funny!  Did you coax him back, play the system so he could hear for himself? 

@barts “Please reread your (my) comment”

l see someone else has beat me to a reply and possibly feels the same as me?

l just did read back my post… Just to make sure!

l gathered that opinion from your attitude towards your guest, which was a choice, not to educate him. You did not invite a healthy conversation, embarrassed your cousin by your dismissive behaviour, and by evasion (and silence) did not demonstrate how your system works.

Do you not think that he would have appreciated a more open discussion?

You did say he entered the whole conversation in a “congenial way”, the way you chose to finish it was not.