I am not discounting the importance of convenience and esthetics but one should know the trade-offs before choosing.
Sadly, these trade-offs are nearly always in the top three for most speakers designs out there.
The number one trade-off, being COST - small light weight cheap drivers (small motor small voice coil) with an aesthetically pleasing look being the principal approach, as it gets two birds with one stone.
The reality is that ugly speakers with cheap cabinets and expensive drivers do not sell to "audiophiles" as well as those speakers designed the other way round!!!
It is rarely about the performance. It is most often about the look. It is the same with sports cars...
Car manufacturers are not at fault if they build what customers really want rather than what they "claim" they want. It is the same for speakers...
Do you really think all those weird fanciful shapes are necessary? Like the aerofoil and go faster stripes on a car...
B&W knows a thing or two about industrial graphic design, so do many many speaker manufacturers....
