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Originally Posted by Niles H.
One percent seems pretty minor. Two percent also seems minor. But when you get up around three or four percent, it starts to make one wonder.

Then again, maybe it doesn't really matter.
Suppose you had a commute that takes you exactly 30 minutes with whatever you're using as a base line drive train. A drive line that's 4% less efficient would take you 31 minutes and 12 seconds. Would that bother you? I rather suspect that would drop out into the background noise of weather and traffic conditions. In other words, the normal day-to-day variation in commuting times would exceed any difference that could be attributed to the hub.
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