The vanishing stereo rack

@pedroeb I was talking to a friend about this the other day. Building everything in one box might actually give you better sound for the money and a lot of people that are not audiophiles will prefer to have as few boxes as possible. 

You are totally correct that a system with separate parts is easier to improve one step at a time and might also be adjusted to taste much more easily. 

I think there will be more active speakers in the future but separates will still exist. 

One of the best active speakers I've heard was the Cabasse La Pearl Pelegrina. 

@mceljo I showed my wife pictures of the Kii Three with bass towers (they are full range) and she thought it was one of the ugliest speakers she had ever seen. It seems like we need to hide the speakers also to get a god WAF (or PAF). Lucky for me I could not afford them anyway.

Cabasse's biggest speaker in the Perl series are also full range. See the end of the page below for a short description (but I think the price is $29k). There will probably be more brands doing this within a few years and some of them will probably go down deep in the bass.

And there is Goldmund with Prana and some other models. The Prana are the smallest in a serie but should go down to 35 Hz, the bigger ones probably lower. Looks like R2D2, you have to decide for yourself what you think about that. And they are expensive.