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For me it's like bikes. I'm unlikely to win the TfF, but it's fun riding a bike that could. Tinkering with that bike and making it exactly how I want it is a large part of the appeal of the thing, after riding of course.
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Yeah, very much this. A huge part of the appeal for me is building and tinkering with my bikes, the never ending upgrade loop.
I was a mountain biker in my teens long before I ever started doing serious road miles.
I'm not going to be winning any world Cup rounds (yet) but having a bike that potentially could makes me smile. A massive part is also the fact I couldn't afford a really nice bike when I was younger and now I can so why not?I don't actually read much hifi media to be honest as a lot of it really is just bollox. Reading some hifi reviews is agonising.
But that didn't stop me buying a groove tracer sub platter for my rp6 deck. I got it second hand so didn't feel like too much of a numpty paying full whack.
To my ears it made no difference that I couldn't be sure that I had imagined.
But the appeal was more the build quality, replacing the plastic rega sub platter with something well made machined from a block of aluminium was very satisfying. Again, wife says I'm an idiot.
TotalShanner
Yeah, my wife absolutely loves to remind about the time I was sitting at the computer and noticed that Spotify was set at the medium bit rate rather than the highest. No idea how long it had been like that and hadn't noticed...
She thinks I'm an idiot with all the kit but apparently unable to hear the difference. She's probably not wrong.