Ugly vs Gogeous speakers

My Quad ESL57s without grilles look awful. Fortunately, they sound most excellent. See Virtual Sys.

Life is too short for ugly speakers.

Very true. Even if I won the lottery I wouldn’t have Wilson speakers no matter how they sounded. Sonus Faber, maybe. Rockport Avior, definitely. Tannoy Kensington GR, why not!

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I wonder if anybody has ever hired a decorator to help blend in fabulous sounding butt ugly speakers to a room?

I don't care what speakers look like, I just want to love how they sound. Having a dedicated room allows for that. When I listen it's with eyes closed, always. Focused, critical listening. Just me, sometimes also a friend. Saturday mornings for a couple of hours.
The living room and master bedroom systems have speakers that my wife likes the looks of and we both agree sound just fine. Those are for movies or background music.

"Decorators" pretty much NEVER incorporate speakers into room design, other than the ceiling mounted stuff that high end houses always seem to have. I like design as simply a minor interest, and thumb through Architectural Digest noting basically zero audio components anywhere...maybe a speaker shows up once in a decade...I think it's funny when speaker manufacturer's advertisements show their stuff set up near windows with a lovely view, with no speaker cables, and no regard to why it would be sitting in the middle of some spectacular room...lame, but I get it. "Hey Marge, you mind if I stick these yellow WiIsons under the Matisse?" I found  the Heresy IIIs to be relatively unobtrusive due to their short stature excepting their fatness, and they allow me to see my tube amps and other items more readily from my listening spot which allows me to stop those pesky tube explosions from destroying my house.