What is the worst colour of speaker finish to you?

Black woodgrain. Nrchy is absolutely right.

Going a bit further ... what about the speaker grills? Why black so often? Dacor camouflage would be nice. Something to blend in with the surroundings and improve WAF. Pastels and browns perhaps .... hmmm, pick your style for your surroundings??? ;-)

Nrchy
Something we both agree on......
Tim

I always figured SOME people prefer black for reasons of their own taste. I alwyas though tit a shame to cover GOOD wood with black. Kinda like painting over otherwise good oak flooring. Sometimes I think it is license to use cheaper and/or inferior grained woods.

wood with grain painted flat black ala Dunlavy. A shame could have been light oak if just stained instead.

Actually, part of the reason for the black stain is to cover up a botched attempt at another stain!! I was told this once when asking about B-stock Dunlavys, that there were fewer of them since the black ash finish came into being! As for my feelings on speakers, since mine are black ash I like 'em just fine (actually they work better in my room and on these speakers than a nicer woodgrain), but there are some automobile finishes from Wilson (I'm talking the Ferrari yellow and red, not the titanium or black gloss) that I'm not too crazy about. And sometimes even the nicest of veneers might not work on a speaker because the speaker is too small to show the full grain pattern of the wood (think of an Infinity IRS's Santos Rosewood finish on a mini-monitor).