This week's Taphonomical Adventure

About this time last year, iabobby (David) wanted to know the best way to spend his 800 Euro voucher for hi-fi. He didn't get much help, which is a bit of a shame, as he never came back to post again - and rather unlike the usual way things go on the AoS. So why don't we take this question & answer it as if he's just posted it. I for one, would be interested in the different approaches that people may have for this size of budget. What would be really great would be if we could find out what he did buy & how it's working out for him.
800 Euros is £721 by todoay's exchange rate.

best home sound for 800 euros?
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1438

As usual, comments relevant to the original post should go onto the thread rather than here.
If anyone has suggestions for suitable threads, they should PM me.