Matt black best for heat dissipation.
Personally I like champagne with wood side cheeks and cherry speakers and rack.
My old Quad is dark grey but at least looks pretty when it lights up and has red and ivory switches. Like you said silver was big in the 70’s but at least it was brushed aluminium and often wood sides. Then it all went black before the dreaded silver everywhere but crummy painted plastic (ironically black underneath).
Car colours are so boring the mo- first the dreaded silver craze (coz it’s safe, easier to sell and ’easy to keep looking clean’) now white, black (ironically hard to keep clean) and the dreaded silver or even worse grey. Interiors the same story- first proper wood/ metal, silver painted plastic and now black with the dreaded touchscreen of annoyance and fingermarks probably because it’s cheaper to make than buttons.
Furniture at one point was all beech and silver then overnight went to light oak. Same with kitchens- seems to be ivory everywhere.
Is it fashion or a lack of imagination? We seem to live in a very monochrome world at the moment. People think the 70’s was brown (OK we had a gorgeous metallic brown Chrysler Avenger and I had a brown velour tracksuit top with cream stripes down the sleeves) but I’m sure there was far more colour then apart from the rash of denim everywhere.
At least Nord keyboards are a cheerful bright red. I also have a metallic blue soprano sax with gold lacquer keys that's 'flash as a rat with a gold tooth'
