Iseem to be having far too many pub conversations about hi-fi of late, but the trouble is every time one talks about the subject with what esteemed colleague Kessler calls 'civilians', one runs the risk of making oneself look ever so slightly daft. Advising a friend the other week about ripping his music to a NAS drive before committing his CD collection to storage in the garden shed, the question arose of just how much storage I thought he'd need. 'Oh, I don't know - 4TB, maybe,' I ventured, 'or 8TB to be on the safe side, because...'. The clang of the jaw dropping was almost audible. 'Why would I need all that?' I was asked. 'I mean, even my PC only has 500CB or something, and that's got music, movies and all sorts on it.'
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