Best looking / worst looking amps & preamps


OK, this week we garnered opinions on the best looking and ugliest speakers. Now it's time to assess the best looking and worst looking amps and preamps. To make the discussion more focused, let's confine choices to amps and preamps manufactured since 1980. Ready....GO!
sdcampbell
Best looking pre-amps: Sonic Frontiers Line series w/ black faceplate & ARC LS25/MKII/Ref 2 in silver-- ML 38/380S series also looks good. In amps, I was always partial to the sexy looking Classe's-- before the Omega series. There are many really cool looking tube amps around, and I like the Cary's and VAC just to name a couple. I'm sure others can nail this down better-- if they have good taste;>).

Ugliest components I've ever seen were the Perreaux (sp?) amps and pre-amps-- the face plates looked like the snout of a walrus or maybe like a mini bumber off a '55 Oldsmobile or Buick. I also don't particularly care for the present ML amp style, but wouldn't call them ugly. Cheers. Craig
Craig, i gotta agree about the "sexy" tube gear that seems to be coming out of the woodwork lately. I also second the "chrome Cadillac bumper" look of some of the Perreaux line. What in the hell were they thinking ??? Sean
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Perreau clams the #1 spot for Fugliness along with the OM-1 preamp. Everyone knows the Hovland HP-100 and the tenor amps
are tops.