Ugly vs Gogeous speakers

In my house speakers have look good (for the wife) and sound even better...the Legacy Audio Focus SE's fit the bill for me, love the Rosewood finish..

Agree with james_w514 " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder with speakers.".   
At the moment, there are so many audio speaker designs that everyone can find the right ones for themselves, of course, top designs are expensive. The production of loudspeakers has gone so far that the cabinets and technological solutions for them are far more expensive than the price of the integrated electronics and speaker units. Let me tell you that I am CEO at Acoustic Preference d.o.o. and in our projects, we still strive to have the price of casing in the ratio of 1: 1 with the price of the integrated electronics, because we think that the design is as important as the sound quality. Of course, we are therefore constrained in creating, but this is a way that is still guaranteed by the acceptable price ratio.

So, my opinion is the same as James's.

Link, to our fully hand-made solid wood walnut loudspeakers Gracioso 2.0 LE because most of you probably do not know:
http://www.acoustic-preference.com/products/gracioso-2-0/

My two cents worth is this: The sound is important, the look is important.  Why not have both?  Good sounding ugly speakers (or amps etc) ... just pass them buy.  We are spoiled for choice at the present time, so we can have our cake and eat it too.

Sonus faber is the most beautiful hands down end of discussion. The Franco Serblin models. Game over!