Rosenut?

Or a bad lip reading of Citizen Kane.

Yuk

Or as Gilda or Baba Wa Wa would pronounce it?

And many times, what a manufacturer states as "rosewood" is not rosewood. Probably 3/4s of Rosewood veneers are actually Pau Ferro, or some other quasi-rosewood.

But really, what does it matter if the customer likes the look? As long as I like the grain pattern and color, and it's not a faux wood vinyl, I could care less.

I paid over $300 for quality Rosewood veneer- just the sheet, the actual wood, nothing more- barely enough to cover 4 subs or maybe a pair of floor standers.  $300 just for the raw material. Even given better pricing and incredibly efficient manufacture that still equates to at least $200, more like $300 or more by the time its on a finished speaker. Which then gets marked up at least 100% from wholesale to retail. 

Rosewood by the way is not a color, its a species of wood with its own distinctive patterns of color and grain, depending on how it was selected and sawn. Not that the average customer has even the slightest clue. Wood is like leather- most "leather" is bits of leather ground up and reconstituted and pressed and cut until it has more in common with paper than the hide of any animal. 

Some of which matters if like me you're building something. Or paying someone to build some for you. If you hire a guy to build you some Rosewood speakers and he tries to trick you with stained walnut I can see where you'd be steamed. I fail however to see how it matters if you're just shopping for speakers. Don't you just buy the ones that look and sound nice? Does it really matter what they call it?

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Right?