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Any McIntosh - Tube or Solid State has the beauty contest all wrapped up.
As a follow-up to last week's question, we'd like to know what audio gear gets your vote for best-looking product of all time.
Though I just love those Cary or BAT amps with the exposed tubes, my vote for the most attractive component has to go to the B&W Signature 30s, with the Sonus Faber Amati Homage a close second. Gotta luv those sweeeeeet wood finishes!
There are many visually impressive offerings these dayshope others follow the trend, because I want my stuff to not only sound great, but look great too in my decor. Keep up the cool, modern industrial designs such as: Bow Wazoo, Rowland Concentra, Pass X-series, Martin-Logan speakers, Linn Sondek CD player, Boulder 2050 monoblocks, Apogee all-ribbon speakers (sadly out of production), Avalon speakers, Revel speakers, and Krell & Levinson gear.
I really like the design and styling of the Mark Levinson 33 Amps. They are tall and slender (something other amps and myself can't compare to). I had the chance to audition these amps with the Revel Salon speakers (black with aluminum side panels). After seeing and hearing these beauties, I wish I had the $45,000 to pony up.
Why yes, of course, looks are important. Would you rather be chatting up Nicole Kidman or Kathy Bates on Saturday night? My vote for the sexiest component goes to Aragon for their Aurum preamp. I love the Aurum's horizontal "V" front panel and ooooh, those big knobs.
my chosen style is hard contemporary industrial with a tinge of gothic or art deco so almost all audio components fit well into my room the ones i like usually sound good. examples: wadia, martinlogan, pass labs, ayre, classe, theta, krell, bryston, wilson, you get the idea. all things aside this should be fun...? yyeesss...fun. pick what u like and go.