Hi,

Firstly, I am absolutely not a troll!

My wife and I have had a relatively top of the range Sony 'music centre'
mini system for about 10 years ( cost about 500 ukp at that time ). It has
now given up the ghost and I want to indulge myself in a half decent
separates system.

After doing a bit of research I though NAD looked a good buy with the chosen
system coming in at around 800 ukp. However, as soon as my wife saw it she
decided it was far too ugly to grace our living room - so that was that.

She has decided she quite likes the look of Rotel kit and may allow me to
get that. However, when I phoned a hi-fi shop in the area to see if they
have Rotel in stock they sounded rather pretentious and fitted the
sterotype hi-fi nutter profile which puts me off going in ( I really don't
want to spend £80 on a mains cable). Budget is not really a big
consideration within reason - but I am finding this a load of hassle and am
close to caving in and going to Comet and spending another £500 on a music
centre again - are separates really worth all this work - and I would really
appreciate suggestions as to where to buy and what to buy in the region of
1000 ukp or so - remember, it must look pretty as well as sound good!

I am in the Glasgow area.

thanks,

Jim