Ugliest Component of the Year 2024!

While McIntosh will always have multiple entries on this list, I believe the true winner of this year's UCOTY Award goes to ML1 Loudspeaker Mk II. Truly it answers questions no one asked while ignoring multiple basic rules of design and acoustical engineering. Uglier than hammered doggy-doo, the ML1 evinces an esthetic not gone too soon, and takes one back, kicking and screaming.

Wadax components get great reviews, cost a fortune, and look like a cheap boom box.  https://wadax.eu/reference/

"The MCD85 can play store bought SACDs and CDs as well as music from homemade CD or DVD Data Discs."

Store bought SACDs! The fancy kind. I guess it won't play the ones you buy online. That's a real limitation.

when you realize a 'Stylish Wooden Finish' could have been chosen, unforgivable decision making

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Is that a Ken doll record player?