black anodization is the only functional color or tone when it comes to anodizing.
Colors are difficult to affect to the same tonality when repeated, and they are subject to fading as they are all basically dyes.
thus no set of ’purple’ components will ever be the same tonality of purple, nor will they fade at the same rate or end up looking like the same purple in their various aspects of individual aging. Same for cyan, blue, red, green, orange, magenta, and any other color that can be anodized into existence.
Black is a dye but the dye is opaque.
One leaves the object or faceplate in the dye long enough and it emerges as a uniform black. same for all others that are dyed back via anodization. the tonalities match well, as they don’t deal with color, just shades.
So, when making audio gear and one is a neophyte, the maker of the chassis (CNC and anodization, all the machining,etc).. has to explain all of this to you.
That for sheer functional effectiveness in the market, there is only one color, and it is black.
Everything else, all colors and so on...are a non-repeatable variable.
the only other one that works, is at the other end of the spectrum, which is clear anodization.
So you get two choices, silver and black.
Faceplates that are metal and painted, like the NAD stuff, are subject to chipping damage. Which most of them have. So that's not a solution, either.
Colors are difficult to affect to the same tonality when repeated, and they are subject to fading as they are all basically dyes.
thus no set of ’purple’ components will ever be the same tonality of purple, nor will they fade at the same rate or end up looking like the same purple in their various aspects of individual aging. Same for cyan, blue, red, green, orange, magenta, and any other color that can be anodized into existence.
Black is a dye but the dye is opaque.
One leaves the object or faceplate in the dye long enough and it emerges as a uniform black. same for all others that are dyed back via anodization. the tonalities match well, as they don’t deal with color, just shades.
So, when making audio gear and one is a neophyte, the maker of the chassis (CNC and anodization, all the machining,etc).. has to explain all of this to you.
That for sheer functional effectiveness in the market, there is only one color, and it is black.
Everything else, all colors and so on...are a non-repeatable variable.
the only other one that works, is at the other end of the spectrum, which is clear anodization.
So you get two choices, silver and black.
Faceplates that are metal and painted, like the NAD stuff, are subject to chipping damage. Which most of them have. So that's not a solution, either.