They are not that bad looking, not kid friendly for sure. I'd like to see some refinement in the whizzer cone design. I'm in a basement so my wife could care less, she just shakes her head and says I thought the Mozart's were the last speakers and what about the other 20 pairs of speakers before these? I just still haven't found what I'm looking for. That's what attracted me to WT the unusual look, 40 day in home and all the bashing about the whizzer cone. bad press sometimes backfires into good press.