How Much Do Aesthetics Factor Into Your Decisions?


Right or wrong, I have always taken what a component looks like into consideration when making a purchase. I like my components to look good.

Much like when I buy clothes. Fit, comfort and construction are important, but clothing also has to make you feel good when you wear it.

How do you feel about it.

Do you want everything to have a certain synergy of appearance, or are you okay wearing brown shoes with a tuxedo? So to speak.

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To me Aesthetics make 60% of my buying decision

 since I believe cables don’t make any difference DACS make difference but it’s not day and night 

speakers make huge difference but good looking always come first 

the most ugliest speakers I know is WILSON ,TEKTON ,EMOTIVA and MCINTOSH SPEAKERS 😂😅😅☺️🤣

Maybe did so in the 70’s. Maybe once in the 80’s when needing WAF. Doesn’t occur to me now at all. I mostly listen with my eyes closed. 

How something looks comes into play in almost everything we humans do. People go to the car dealership and want to buy a particular vehicle because it looks good to them but they know little to nothing about it's fuel economy, reliability, or safeness. They'll buy a dog based on literally nothing but how it looks. A lot of audio components are quite literally audio jewelry (Dagostino stuff being one of the best examples) with prices to match but not sound quality.

Personally, I've been a function over form person for as long as I can remember but I think I'm definitely in the minority.

@mgattmch .....Nice, but the poster was briefly mistaken for a family portrait....;)

I've owned pretty, currently not so much.  Looks more like a lab done with a too-tight budget and wired like an old telephone switchboard....😏

Speaker array is the best part, surrounding the 50" LG screen.

The owner, @ 73, looks the part....never been much of a clotheshorse....don't have the physical frame to pull it off @ 5'-11" & 130 lbs.

Knit this 'who dealt this mess' by trying to be 'charming' in my own obscure way....