What is the worst colour of speaker finish to you?

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).

The new trend towards "automotive" finishes-paint- really turns my stomach. Look at Revel, beautiful cabinetwork destroyed with paint. I prefer natural finishes of the wood used for the cabinets.

Lipstick Black.

That HotRod version of a Meadowlark--didn't they have flames or something on it? I thought it was tacky as hell (no pun intended: I didn't catch it 'til I finished the next paragraph).

Regarding the "banalness"--I do find these threads more interesting though than ones asking which cables to get, or any other pseudo-scientific product that has insignificant increase in sound performance. And with these threads opinions are ok.