You know, when I consider the shape of all things natural, the essence of sound/music itself and the shape of the vast range of musical instruments used to MAKE the music reproduced by audio systems, i.e., the fact that not one (to the best of my knowledge) is a square or rectangle (or simple variations thereof); that indeed most are about as far from being of such simplistic geometric shapes as you can get, it stirs me to thinking that perhaps it is the vast majority of conventionally designed/traditionally-shaped speakers that should not be taken anywhere nearly as seriously as they have been by those in pursuit of the so-called absolute sound.
Odd shaped speakers
How can a speaker shaped like a ham be taken seriously? How about one that looks like a giant version of the horn usually associated with Nipper? Or the ones with so many modules and a rack type thing you wonder how the sound can be integrated when the sources it comes from are so disparate? Am I the only one who is satisfied with boxes properly finished or what?