Why are modern arms so ugly?

09-24-11: Thuchan
Rockitman,
thought so too. when I was looking at the Continuum Cobra usually on images or at fairs I thought it is a funny creature. When you have installed this arm and you look on your turntable this arm has some powerful elegance. It is a design piece!

best & fun only

Sound quality is most important. The Cobra is at the top of class as far as radial arms go in that category. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I did take a look at you system pics. Wow !

PS: A Cobra is welcome in my system anytime !

Wow....the shock of the new!
In the visual arts, a truly new aesthetic is often initially found to be ugly.
Cezanne, van Gogh and Gauguin brought new aesthetics which in turn lead to Cubism, the Fauves, Der Blau Reiter, Expressionism and Modern Art as we know it today. Van Gogh sold one painting during his lifetime.
Even Impressionism was initially considered ugly and confronting although marking the 'end' of Classical Painting rather than the 'beginning' of Modern Art?
As Director of the Aesthetics Police here......I hereby pronounce the Continuum arms to be 'beautiful' and 'functional' :-)
And Thuchan........if you are prepared to wait 5-10 years.....I predict that your Cobra and Copperhead will reward you on the 'Collectors' market, with prices unimaginable today?
All the while.......producing celestial sounds to soothe the savage beast.

Thanks for the art history lesson Halcro.

A lipsticked pig is still a pig.

Bill,
Good taste is its own reward :^)

The DPS tonearm for the DPS/Ayre turntable is clean and sleek and utterly functional. For about $12K (maybe less), this turntable/tonearm combo is easily the equal of a $30K SME rig while sleeker and cleaner looking.

And it's definitely modern. This arm came out within the last 3 years or so.