Non specific, vague or just plain lazy wanted threads.

[jandl100]

I'd urge them to break their cherries by randomly buying half a dozen items of kit off of ebay and then see where it goes from there.

Yup, that's what I do.

[Macca]

Yup, that's what I do.

That's what I did until I ran out of space. On the plus side when I recently had a pal looking to set up a system from scratch I could offer him more choice than most dealers