$27,500 for whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???

but the bass is
 1 or  2 % better
with the paint 

So much envy and resentment in such a small space. That’s what I find appalling.

Come on guys that not a lot to spend on a paint upgrade. You know you drop that much on a weekend with a few wild women so why not take a weekend off and put it where it counts. The paint offers a great improvement on acoustics which is fairly audible, I'm sure. If that is not the case then you're screwed!

 Uhm, take a look at your own system and tell me you've never had someone shake their head at how much you've spent.

Yup - my wife.  Repeatedly!

Only a fool with too much $$ would spend that . For $10 k 
I can get my car painted in any color base coat,clear coat with a seamless finish. To paint a speaker 
for almost $30k proved that companies know there are suckers out there .as an ex Audiostore owner Ithink this ritzy snobbery BS 
is truly taking a wizz on the consumer in whatever the market will bear. .even in electronics a fantastic looking case but with average parts then asking $20-30k
that is why I mod most everything I own the much higher quality parts 
give you on average 3 x in $$ spent in value . That is why buying 
a few years old reference piece 
then upgrading it makes total 
sence .This is why Dan Modwright 
decided to offer this. Any very good tech can upgrade go to a specialist.myself know through experience the best of parts 
including Loudspeakers speakers are a a Huge offender using low
to med quality Xover parts which is the heart of the speakers .even in $80k speakers life example ML stats, using low cost mundorf evo
capacitors, where their supreme line is the best white evo ,= cheap
harbeththe owner slammed the phone on me when I questioned him on using Taiwan caps,since they are made in the U.K. where I sold Hifi Clarity caps are made  just down the road.inthere newer SE models they finally got the hint.
rule of thumb ,if they don’t state 
the Xover quality it means not much  to brag about 90% of the time. Doyourself a favor and ask questions,like if buying a car.