[bcrdukes]

Love Mirage speakers. Currently using the discontinued Mirage OMD-5 (omni-polar.)

(I missed Tapioca's post above - oops!)

Spoiler!

Not exactly the same, but London Drugs has a set of Tannoy Mercury V1 bookshelf speakers on sale for $199 (for a pair.) They're a pretty good bang for buck for music, TV, games etc. If you do get them, make sure you get proper speaker stands for them or at least a solid bookshelf to put them on.

As for receivers, I'm with StylinRed on this one. I'm a fan of Yamaha but currently using an Onkyo. Denon, Harmon Kardon and Pioneers are pretty good but you have to figure out what you want to achieve before throwing money away.