the front range corridor of colorado (ft. collins to colorado springs) is the home of numerous high end manufacturers. these include, in boulder: avalon acoustics, boulder amps, ps audio and ayre. in colorado springs, you have: Jeff rowland, dunlavy and green mountain audio. there are others i've momentarily forgotten. there are also numerous retail stores on the front range, tho most are in greater denver. don't really know about the current job market but i can tell you there are a LOT of job seekers here who are recent casualties of the telecom and high tech implosions. i'd suggest you look up the manufacturers on this site and use the internet yellow pages to hunt for retailers. you may also want to contact the colorado audio society, whose link can also be found here. best of luck in your pursuit. -kelly (from denver)