Who else here is frugal?

I bought a 1986 Ferrari Mondial for $32k and it served as my daily driver for two years and 15,000 miles and never towed in. I had it towed to my local wrench for a clutch rebuild.  

He had never touched a Ferrari before and had himself a blast!  He replaced the CV joints as well. 

That is one frugal way to get a genuine Ferrari experience!   I took it to a speed only 1/2 mile drag where Lambos were over 200mph and got lots of attention. 

Only got 115 mph but learned the 8,000 rpm engine is for theatrics only and to keep mecanics employed rebuilding clutches!  My best run was shifting at 6,000 rpm.  I always wondered how an 8,000rpm engine could lug up my mountain in third gear. 

My daily driver for work was a 996 X-50 Turbo, very frugal... except for tires....

Attempting to convince a "frugal" audiophile that he/she holds him/herself back in terms of their listening experiences is marginally less difficult than attempting to lift the North American plate.   :)

While it is true my entire system costs only about 10 dollars, not counting tweaks, I am definitely not (rpt not) frugal. The reason I opted out of the typical audiophile system - my previous all tube Class A headphone amp and the World’s most modded Oppo 103 and Sennheiser HD-600 - was actually due to sound quality. Or at least the expectation of that possibility. That’s right. Sound quality! No more AC house power, no more AC Ground problems, no more power cords, no more interconnects, no more digital cable, no more speaker cables, no more huge transformers, no more fuses. No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks. 🧐 Now, see if anyone can guess which system sounds better, my all tube Woo Audio + Modded OPPO system + Sennheiser HD-600 or my SONY WALKMAN CD Player + SONY MDR-700v headphones. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, ”Are you out of mind?”

Geoffkait ,I think you are right about the noise level...If someone dont care about the acoustical difference between headphones and speakers, this is the right track to travel...

But an old guy as I am like the acoustical freedom of his speakers also... The good news is I think it is possible, " in the grid", to reach relatively near, not too far behind, your quality "off the grid" system, with many precautions related to vibrations resonance, electrical embedding, and acoustical treatment and some other "tweaks"... I say "near" indeed because for the purity of the sound frequencies, the best speakers will always be most of the times only slightly behind the best headphones; but  this acoustical, atmospheric freedom of the sound waves travelling to my body, out of the brain, we must recognize that this is indeed an another world... My best from my past to your future... :)