All good stuff folks.
I live in East London, so not able to make most of those shops named (although I didnt realise Jeffries was a chain - my mum lives round the corner from what used to be one in Eastbourne).
Richer Sounds was fine for me when I first got into hi fi stuff - I'm just curious...
Right - I have a nice big old pair of floorstanding tannoy speakers (circa 1980's)... the time has come to replace them, and am thinking of a trendy looking bookshelf speaker / stand combo. The problem is, I don't know owt about bookshelf speakers or which makes to look for. I 'know' that...