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I have been riding a fair bit on 10sp veloce group and am impressed with quality... All the fuss over Power torque is a bit overblown on here. Yes they are annoying to extract but how often do you do that? stiff and smooth crank-set that compliments any age of frame. The weight and finish of the group is much more pleasing than 105. Rode the Ghisallo on carbon centaur on a hire bike this summer and couldn't tell the difference between veloce... it visually matched the carbon frame it was built on better.
If you can plump for it, chorus and up is noticably better as you get the 5 gear shift that makes the 'double dump' possible. This is the feature that really sets campag apart from the other mechanical groupsets. Coming from shimano and sram i have grown to really love this feature at the bottom and top of climbs as you can go from cross chained in big / big cogs to the same gear ratio on the inner ring and then have options as you climb. This all happens instantly rather than cycling down the block as you do with shimano / sram click by click.
Di2 has this feature but the lack of multishift in both directions on the mechanical groups is something i miss when i change bikes (including the veloce set up)...