Yeah, I have to say they do, you can be def and still enjoy a hot rod... Nothing like something made over 70 years ago and still all metal with a touch of new technology and style fuel injection, a/c, automatic, leather interior, disc brakes, shaved door handles frenched lic plate, ect, ect, ect, ect.... Or having one of the only convertible 440 six pack convertibles left in existence... Or having a rifle capable of letting you knock down pie plates at over 1000 yards {just too bad I'm only good for around 700
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I think speakers are one of them things you can get away with spending a lot less on and getting such a close match to something that costs 10 times more {almost like vanity comes into play with the expensive systems
}, but with stuff like guns, If I buy a $100 rifle scope it is NOTHING like my $2000 nightforce, or if I buy a mossy 12 ga for $400, it wouldnt have a shot of hanging with my $4000 Citori.. But with speakers my cheap wharfedales sound just as good as most of the higher end stuff I auditioned... I would honestly have to go up to about 5 times the cost to warrant spending any more money, and that difference wouldn't warrant 5 times the cost.. {that probably doesnt make sense...}
But anyway these are hobbies, stuff that helps make life worth living and help us get up and go to work in the morning, I find most of the people on this forum are very similar, we like nice STUFF, I see in the pictures that people post, there are a lot of members here with nice homes, I know I dont have super expensive speakers, but this is mostly because Im cheap
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