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Tubes, cables now this. It seems more like religion or superstition than technology IMHO.

My advice to everyone is to never ask a hard-core gamer what he's tweaking when he's got his favorite rig open, and cards scattered all over the workbench. There's enough technological superstition in some of them to summon the devil.

Why, and how, would one "tweak" a machine?

Overclocking. 144+ Hz monitors. Etc.

maybe they'll obsess about musician's health or instrument care

And perhaps at a fraction of the cost ;)

So true, a friend and I had a holiday party at my house and we talked about having a DJ but instead we went online and got a piano player instead for less money and honestly way classier and BTW, it was fun and nice, sort of a cool thing really.

But you won’t be able to play it at leisure then :P