The best looking speakers

@ovature Men just have to take interest in their home decor. In my household, it's more like HAF (Husband Acceptance Factor). Why? Because I decorate.

To be frank, I see a lot of pictures of empty listening rooms with tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. This makes my blood boil. So you can afford $5000 speakers but you can't afford to decorate the space? I feel like I'm in a car mechanic's waiting room. It's depressing.

Can't you hang pictures on the wall? Lay a nice rug? Add a few plants, an accent chair and nice pieces of vintage furniture? Can we have some color up in here? Why does everything have to be a shade of grey? I just want to drag people's butts to the local flea markets, the goodwill and pawn shops. Quality pieces are often cheap and IKEA sells drab white melamine furniture as luxury...

Personally, large speaker towers turn me off. They absolutely dwarf a living room and scream "me! me! me!".

I would prioritize wood veneer or real wood to add warmth to a space. So any slim tower or tiny standmount in a wood finish is a solid choice.

But the Elipson BS50 Tribute gets my vote. Otherwise I love the vintage JBL look of the L100 with the fuzzy orange grill.

@toro3 Don’t be like me and purchase a condo with a 3 year completion wait. I had 3 years to think about the interior decor, without setting foot in the condo. My brain was working 24/7 imagining what the space would look like. I even used AutoCAD at work to figure out a layout. I spent over 3 years obsessively watching interior decorators on YouTube. There are standouts :

- Garrett le Chic

- Page Wassel

- Nick Lewis

There are pitfalls in interior design:

- Overspending on ‘new’ furniture. Nobody gives a flying care if your table has a ding or a scratch. Nobody cares about your designer chairs and if they’re « original ». 
- Buying everything from the same place. Now, IKEA kinda pulls it off in their showrooms because they accessorize to the max with trinkets and fabrics. 
- Sticking to a theme. Your place will look like a rental if everything is a shade of brown or grey. 
- Only buying square shaped furniture with straight lines. Your human brain doesn’t like to be in a space with only straight lines. Curves, circles and ovals are soothing to the mind. Your room is already a box and that’s already oppressing. 
- DO wood veneer and solid wood pieces. Your human brain calms down at the sight of natural materials like wood, stone, cotton/linen etc… The worst you can do is have grey laminate flooring with all white furniture (some of which is glossy).

It’s okay to have some white furniture if you introduce books, a rug, some wood etc… There’s no hard rule in decorating. Just fill the space with stuff. Have some colored fabrics that pop (accent chair, accent pillow, throw…). Have books (even if you don’t read. Look for trinkets at the pawnshop and flea markets.