re Gershman Grand Avant Garde
I seriously could not come up with anything to make that speaker uglier, aesthetically speaking
My wife likes its appearance much better than plain looking rectangular speakers. My daughter is very artistic (an art major) and she prefers ists looking to other speakers I had: Harbeths, Tyler, B&W, Apogee, ...
So for me, Avant Garde wins big on its athestics. ;-)