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Do you listen to your heart or your eye?

There are tons of good speakers out there, not to mention personal preferences, but how many of you buy speakers PURELY based on sound? I have owned over a dozen $10k+ speakers in life, but always wanted to own Sonus Faber Amati for its look. I never once liked the sound at dealer demo, but I contributed the bad sound to equipments and rooms (Classe or Levinson). But convince the SO is much easier with Amati than another square or weird looking box. My yard stick is high, the trust worthy Dynaudio Confidence 5 which has seen no equal after three years. What do I do or what have you done?
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garfish
1,840 posts
 
Appearance is important to me too, but it's secondary to sonic quality/character. I chose Vandersteen 5s-- they are sonically excellent and very attractive too, IMO.

That said, I probably would not have bought the V5s if they were ugly. I guess I want both, and fortunately I think most manufacturers know that. Maybe the WAF helps keep most speakers pretty good looking;>). Cheers. Craig
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marakanetz
5,473 posts
 
Tie up your eyes before even seing any speaker prior to auditioning and than decide. Vandy 5s are realy ugly especially without grilles. Them you'd better audition with tied eyes.
killerpiglet
374 posts
 
As long as it doesn't look like a coffin, it's fine.

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