I must have bought for the sound and the price. My newform research speakers will never win a beauty contest. There are times when I wish they were beautiful and then I fall in love with them all over again, it goes in cycles....they always make people comment on them even touching the ribbons and saying"what are these things?". I always wished I had a pair of mini monitors that were 1. cheap. 2 and could move me like the newforms....What do I do? Live with the newforms. They're like owning a beetle....they look odd but the owners love them...One of the handsomest speakers I ever swa were the Castle Winchesters in mahogany. Women would gush and fondle the wood[the speakers]....they were a very elegant sounding speaker
Do you listen to your heart or your eye?
There are tons of good speakers out there, not to mention personal preferences, but how many of you buy speakers PURELY based on sound? I have owned over a dozen $10k+ speakers in life, but always wanted to own Sonus Faber Amati for its look. I never once liked the sound at dealer demo, but I contributed the bad sound to equipments and rooms (Classe or Levinson). But convince the SO is much easier with Amati than another square or weird looking box. My yard stick is high, the trust worthy Dynaudio Confidence 5 which has seen no equal after three years. What do I do or what have you done?