Ugliest Component of the Year 2024!

When I read the copy on these speakers I double checked to see that I was not on The Onion.

https://www.yankodesign.com/2009/10/26/sounds-from-behind/

DeKay

IMHO, a lot of companies take pride in their work without threatening reviewers, and testers with litigation, like Tekton, DCS and Tom Evan’s did.

Let's not forget this weird banana thing from Vivid:  https://vividaudio.com/giya/giya-g1-spirit/

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

Plus 1000 @otherworld74 

Until you see the back panel!!!

I have another anatomically suggestive speaker system for you to consider.  It is the Western Electric 16A horn from the 1920's.  I know someone who owns two of these beasts.  Although it has two drivers, it is a single midrange horn.  I've heard them run full range with Western Electric 555 fieldcoil drivers and also YL compression drivers.  The setups I heard did not employ any woofers.   Being a midrange horn, and given that the drivers were also meant to only operate in the midrange, it was shocking how much bass this horn delivers (goes down to somewhere around 70 hz).  A bullet tweeter crossed in at around 15 khz.  Whether it is ugly or beautiful is really hard to say.  It is like what someone said about Nat King Cole--I don't know if he is the handsomest or ugliest man.

https://we16ahorn.blogspot.com/