Where are the massive people for whom these XL shirts are made (apart from in 'All‑You‑Can‑Eat' American diners)? It seems that the jump between large and extra large in the minds of clothing manufacturers would be better expressed as 'big' and 'gargantuan'. Yet when I try on these XL shirts, I find they could often comfortably accommodate two people my size (if not three). As a result, whenever anybody buys me clothes or gives me promotional T‑shirts at trade shows, they invariably settle on the XL size. Now he takes a look at its successor to see how much more you get when you buy XL.Īnyone who knows me will tell you I have always been a big bloke and, as the years march by, a constant diet of fine food and fine wine has only added to how I started out. Three years ago Paul Wiffen concluded that Akai had brought the concept of the sampling drum machine up to date with the MPC2000.