For the Audiophile with a taste for good design(looks)....a question.

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My home is designed in an "ultra-modern" way.
1. The Focal Sopra No 2 including center and sub are a very striking piece of speaker art, and have great sound too.
2. The Dalie Menuet SE is a beautiul small speaker that makes a bold statement, along with impressive sound for such a small package.
3. The Devialet Phantom Gold with Oak Stand doubles as both sculpture and audiophile heaven, especially on the bass.
My audio equipment is spaced throughout my home, and is often seen while it is not in use. My goal was to "have it all," looks and sound. I believe that my system is getting there.

Well, back in the day, Bang and Olufsen was the "design" audio company.  Their stuff was middle-of-the-road in sound and it broke pretty much like the rest of the stuff in that sound range, but it was pretty. 

We made some oak stands for it that we sold to our customers who wanted their stuff to be seen, but we were in the custom cabinet business as well, so we did like to sell the wall units and free-standing stuff more.

I don't follow them any more, but in the '70s and '80's we sold a ton of their stuff, and it was "designed" by people into Scandinavian design.

We also kept a Transcriptor TT in out shop; it does not actually play records, but it is pretty!

Cheers!

No one should miss the The Wall, The Diamond, The Reflection, and especially The Minatour in your choice of Stainless, Bronze, Marble and more by Audiovisual Art. 

duckworp,

"...their minimalist design which had been part of their DNA since the 70s, was not embraced into wider product design until Johnny Ive created the iPod and Apple made the look ubiquitous."

I believe that Jony Ive "took cues" (plagiarized?) the design from Dieter Rahms rather than from Naim.

How Dieter Rams Inspired Some Apple Products – UltraLinx (theultralinx.com)

And then....Apple patented some of their shapes and even tried to protect the white color, I think.