it's a slippery slope
I had to jettison all my home cinema kit when I moved to london, as I wouldnt be able to fit in my room if I'd brought it down with me.
(although I do have space for a flatscreen, br player and 360 in here as well as my desktop pc. and I picked up one of those dinky little Onkyo micro stereos for (almost literally) pennies in Reading a few months back.)
however prior to that, I'd walk into the north manchester Richer Sounds and the salespeople would rub their hands. I took a friend in there once to help her choose a cd player and walked out with £600 worth of subwoofer and speaker cable. :(
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Fri 22 May 2009, 16:50, 1 reply)

That reminds me...
I upgraded my perfectly good speaker cable with 'better' speaker cable. Why?
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Fri 22 May 2009, 17:01, closed)

I certainly feel as though I can hear a difference between bell wire
(the bog-average stuff bundled with cheap stereos) and decent cable (I'm using silver plated stuff right now that cost me £15 a metre) but I have heard that when B&W are doing trade shows, their demo team goes to the nearest B&Q and bulk buys mains extension leads and wires everything up with that, on the basis that it's as pure a copper as you're going to get anywhere else. *shrugs* you pays your money and takes your choice, I suppose.
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Fri 22 May 2009, 17:50, closed)