Apart from going to Argos and buying the one with the most buttons....

[Beef Oven]

Can I suggest potential buyers consider AVI speakers - Gloucestershire based manufacturer of active speakers (active as used in studios).
For £1250 you get a pair of speakers with powerful onboard amplifiers, and a high quality DAC. All you need to connect are your sources - preferably by optical cable, but a facility for analogue. Also, because of a new model, owners of the ADM 9 standmounted speakers are upgrading and they are on occasion available secondhand.

http://www.avihifi.co.uk/store.html

Also there is the HDD forum

http://hddaudio.net/

Their speakers are excellent value, clear and powerful and can be audtioned at Bartletts in London or Five Ways Hi Fidelity in Birmimgham (or factory visits are welcomed). I have their speakers and they are clear and powerful. There was a "GRramophone" review a couple of years ago, and others.
Worth considering if you are prone to upgrade-itis aka box swapping (something I largely resisted and is now completely behind me.
Stephen

I am considering ADM9s as my next purchase. Don't know too much about them, but I want to rid myself of my Naim boxes and have a Laptop/PC led system.

P.S. I have PMd you.

[Stephen Smith]

I'm very limited as to my free time (but have replied to Beef Oven) , and I have no great audio expertise. I wouldn't, therefore, be able to debate relative merits as against other set ups. But as an owner (with no other association to AVI) I thought these link to other info might be of inerest to forum members in search of good sound and good value. I suggest the best thing for forum members is to try to get to listen to the AVI system(s) if this has aroused your interest..
Stephen

[Beef Oven]

I'm very limited as to my free time (but have replied to Beef Oven) , and I have no great audio expertise. I wouldn't, therefore, be able to debate relative merits as against other set ups. But as an owner (with no other association to AVI) I thought these link to other info might be of inerest to forum members in search of good sound and good value. I suggest the best thing for forum members is to try to get to listen to the AVI system(s) if this has aroused your interest..
Stephen

Thanks for your pm - I will audition some ADM 9s in London in the next couple of weeks.

Once again, thanks

[teamsaint]

so...still using the old system..
still baffled....read a magazine today, accidentally... are these the coming thing

http://www.hifichoice.co.uk/news/article/cocktail-x10--pound;349/8863

or not?
Ta

[MrGongGong]

NOT

Though many things are "coming things" including incontinence , ash wednesday and the dreary football season

[teamsaint]

care to tell me why not? they look dead handy.(especially if you can copy to an external hard drive)
Unlike some of the other things you mention. And why bring scottish football into it?!

[HighlandDougie]

Oi! Watch it or in your next life you might be condemned to watching Cowdenbeath vs Montrose in an endless loop