Anecdotes that obviously never really happened

just had this conversation with a very old and dear friend.

he is considering getting into vinyl because he found a box of his old college albums up in his mothers attic that have been there for almost 50 years.

i gave him 3 trains of thought:

1 - go to a store and buy a turntable/record player with built in speaker and play them to see just horribly noisy they will sound compared to his CD's and then take them back to a store and trade them for the CD's of the same titles. also, return the record player to get your money back.

2 - invest heavily in an entire new sound system (as of now he has none, plays CD's in his car and on a portable player) for thousands of dollars, because with everything he will need to play those 50 year old records he will have to buy all the bells and whistle to get any kind of decent sound.

3 - donate the LP's to a local church garage sale and forget that you even found them

Last night I called my neighbor from downstairs up for some beers and good conversation.

was nice having someone in the house since this whole pandemic.
We chatted for a couple hours, had some drinks , laughs, was a really enjoyable evening.

I told him ok do me a favor and sit here ( in my listening spot) and see how this sounds.
The only thing I told him was “ tell me where the voices are coming from”. As I put on Le Nozze Di figaro.

I know the part I put on very well , but just wanted someone else to tell me what they can hear out of curiosity.

so he listened and very accurately says “ ok she is in the middle , oh now the other singer is off to the right close to the door, oh the third singer is behind the right speaker off to the right a bit”
He goes “ how does that even work???” In astonishment. He goes “ there is nothing coming from the speakers , I don’t get it”

put a big smile on my face
I sorta explained a bit of acoustics to him the way I understand it.

just wanted to share as I thought it was a pretty cool experiment and fun.

anyone else have the same experience with people who know nothing about audio?