Avalon Acoustics

They make decent sound speaker but it look ugly like Biden hairy leg.

LOL.  They are clean sounding but dry.  Put the wrong equipment with them and they get bright real fast.   They have no grain in the sound though which is hard to do.

great speakers, and yes, they never respond...if you really need to talk to them, gotta go thru a dealer I think...

they are absolutely wonderful, top shelf speakers, sonically and aesthetically

as usual, you need to use them in a proper assembled system with well matched ancillary gear

A speaker maker that in some respects reminds me of Avalon is Aspen Acoustics. See my review of the Lagrange L5 MkII at Dagogo.com, and my system pics showing the preproduction model ($15K) of the Lagrange L1, which I will review. The MSRP to performance is commensurate to Vandersteen or Magnepan.