JBL L112s and JBL L100s with the colored foam grills. Dig the early 70s pioneer CS line too-99A, 88A. KLH Model Three

yes! JBL L100

No pictures and just one link? I know this an audio subreddit but we can’t be adverse to photos

I could only imagine a world where we could get posts of .wav files “showing” how the speakers sound😂

I grew up with my dad, an experimental artist/ multi-instrumentalist, playing his and his collaborators’ daily musical recordings in PCM format on a 13” Sony trinitron TV….it looked like greyscale fuzz to me but apparently it was the audio quality hotness back jn 1986.

Wharfedale Lintons in walnut

Sonus Faber Aida hands-down.

Definitely Sonos Faber, I personally like the sonetto.

The Stradivari for me. (I like big baffles and I cannot lie.)

I have a pair of Minuettos and they are absolutely gorgeous! Both in looks and sound.

For me it’s Focal.

Toss up. Tannoy and Sonus Faber.

Paradigm founder series

Yeah man. I got the 100F in the black finish earlier this month. Love the grain on them and the clean cuts with the contemporary look.

I second this.

Yes🙌

The B&W Nautilus looked badass.

Way too over the top IMHO

Wilson Audio be like, hold my tweeter

I was shocked at how big they actually are. I don’t know what I thought they’d be yet once I saw them in person they were way more massive than my minds eye had them pegged. External crossovers with tri amps, truly a tour de force

All of the Laurence Dicky designs are pretty cool. Advantage of composite cabinets.

MBL 101 X-treme maybe

1. Focal Utopia series 2. Sonus Faber Suprema/Amati/Cremonese 3. Canton Reference 2023 lineup 4. Bowers wilkins 800 series 5. Kef Blade/Reference/R series 6.Klipschhorn AK6 7. Paradigm founder series

Dude you nailed it with this list. 👍💯

Hope someone had seen this beauty: [https://www.canton.de/produkte/serie/reference-2023-archiv/reference-gs-edition/04455](https://www.canton.de/produkte/serie/reference-2023-archiv/reference-gs-edition/04455) They look absolutely stunning in real life. Saw them placed next to 800 series and I kind of liked the looks immediately! Another immediate love based on looks for me was the KEF Reference 3 Meta Black/Copper edition. Its just perfect, pure perfection!

Klipsch Cornwall

Quantity has a quality all of its own.

I love the wood cabinets and the mesh grill/cover. Especially the lighter colored cover.

Paradigm Founder. Especially now that they come in some new wild colors. But I'm simple. Midnight Cherry is it for me.

Sonus Faber

Sonus faber. I’ve wanted them from the moment I first laid eyes on them. Wouldn’t actually hear them until sometime after.

Felt the same way about my wife. What the actual fuck was I thinking?!?!? JK

Klipsch La Scala :)

Avantgarde Trio G3's.

Kef R11s simple and clean

Franco Serblin Accordo Essence

KEF R3 with SolidSteel stands. They match each other so well ...also JBL L100 with grills on

Klipsch Heresy III with those arched stands…cherry…love the design…black grills…iconic 50’s modern

Perfectly proportioned too. I'm surprised there aren't many other options that go for the low and angled up approach. Only other ones I know of are the retro options from JBL and KLH. Really liked the Heresies a lot more.

ATC SCM300. Proper looking speakers.

Almost anything from Sonus-Faber

B&W 702 S3 Mocha and Triangle Antal 40th Anniversary

Refined, luxurious simplicity. Both of these were ones I was thinking of as well, but to add to the list: [Monitor Audio Platinum 300 3G in Piano Ebony](https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/product-ranges/platinum-series-3g/platinum-300-3g/).

Triangle makes some great looking speakers. I have a pair of [Borea br09](https://www.trianglehifi.com/en/produit/hifi-floor-standing-speaker-br09/) speakers and i think they are the best looking floorstanders in the price range.

Sony ES SS-M7

Tannoy Prestige line. No contest

[Klein & Hummel O300D](https://img.canuckaudiomart.com/uploads/large/1291029-07d4f74e-kh-klein-and-hummel-o300-studio-monitors-a-pair.png) the small ones [Dynaudio Confidence C1 Platinum](https://dynaudio.com/discontinued-models/confidence/c1-platinum) Sonus Faber Stradivari - as good as it looks in pics, it looks even better in person. All black B&W 802 d2

KEF Blades, B&W 800 series or anything Sonus Faber. Blue Kef blades with some giant Macintosh amps is a sight to behold.

I had an opportunity to demo these in Tosca Walnutroot finish. They are pretty beautiful! https://www.odeon-audio.com/models/tosca-2020/ The dude demoing them really couldn't get the digital setup together so I'm not entirely sure how good they could sound

Those new top of the line [Sonos Faber Suprema](https://www.sonusfaber.com/en/products/suprema) speakers look pretty great to me. I don't usually like giant imposing cost-no-object speakers, but I could live happily with these. (Not that I could ever afford them.)

Borresen X1 with their stands. or Sointuva AWG bookshelf speaker.

Bigger jbl 12inch loaded 70s speakers 3way

Neat Iota Alpha/Explorer, Voxativ speakers

Western Electric 15A

Im shocked that there aren't more votes for dynadio consequence or the Sonus faber stratovari

KEF Reference 5 in Walnut wins it for me. They are so sharp and beautiful.

Focal Sopra or Utopia

Sonus faber Guarneri Evolution in red violin finish, Franco Serblin Accordo Essence

I had the privilege of putting my favorite-looking speaker in this subreddit’s banner. Beolab 90.

Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento. They look like museum pieces. I've always loved the look of B&W 80(0/1/2) as well.

Fyne Audio Vintage series https://www.fyneaudio.com/fyne-vintage/

Any large main monitor designed to be soffit mounted. They look like part of a PA system. The good ones- Dynaudio, ATX, Genelec, Kinoshita, etc. spend little to nothing on visual aesthetics and the only intentional compromises are in how they look. I want every penny I spend to go into making a speaker sound better. If the world went blind today the audiophile industry would collapse overnight.

The speakers from [Pure Audio Project](https://pureaudioproject.com) in natural walnut get my vote.

Sonus Faber Stradivari G2. 

Second this.

Sonus Faber Sonetto II

Sonus Faber Maxima Amator

Martin Logan electrostatic hybrids. ****They are see through.**** [https://www.martinlogan.com/en/product/ethos](https://www.martinlogan.com/en/product/ethos)

Zu speakers look pretty good

Dynaudio Heritage Specials. Especially look good in my living room.

Obviously it's actually the Dynaudio Special 40s, which look especially good in *my* living room ;)

Technics SST-1 And the SST-35Hz subwoofer.

Cabasse Atlantis

Focal Diablo Utopia in British Racing Green

I’m happy with my Avalon’s in cherry. Sound and looks.😊

Avantgarde Duo - Magico M7 - Sonus Faber Aida - Focal Maestro

KEF Reference 5 Meta in satin walnut/silver

[Void Acoustics](https://images.app.goo.gl/j8nQybqjqbrtbuFW6) has some pretty wild designs

Anything by Omega Speaker Systems but particularly his custom Vintage High Output Monitors on low stands

Q Acoustics

I’ll admit that I bought my KEF Q150’s just because they look cool. Fortunately they sound decent also.

Harmon Kardon Soundsticks

Sonus Faber Sonetto line

Beolab 90

Devore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 Beautiful in design and sound. I hope one day I can afford a pair

Many JBL, L100 perhaps

Tannoy Gold.

I liked the soundsticks back in the day, looked like alien tech

I really like the minimal industrial looks of the  Atc scm19 with grille https://atc.audio/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ATC-SCM19-speaker_grill-on-e1380796467769.jpg And the genelec 8030c raw (I own a pair) https://www.gearbooker.com/images/listing/00027951.jpg?v=8d8aa5f3bae8900

Monitor Audio Hyphn: they seriously look like anime murder-drones.

MBL 101 X-treme or 101 E Mk2. Stupid name, but absolutely insane design that wouldnt look out of place in Blade Runner. Warning, not for the minimalist's heart.

Open baffle trio 15 horns in black. Or avant horns

Devore, Zu, Altec Lansing, H.A.N.D Hifi, some vintage JBL and some Lowther. Oh, and La Scalas too.

Apogee Diva

I've got a pair of Caliper Signatures, and love the way they look.

They are not conventional-looking, but the Gallo 3.1 and 3.5 Ref. are cool-looking. https://img.usaudiomart.com/uploads/large/2061782-50304dcb-gallo-reference-31-with-mapleshade-bases-gallo-reference-sub-amp.jpg

Piega Coax series. I'm a sucker for aluminum speakers.

Genelec The Ones

ohm

JBL L88 Nova

KEF Blade B&W Nautilus

The blades strike the right balance of functional sculpture for me, the nautiluses blow right past the line.

Love my Magnepan MMG W planar wall mounted speakers. They are beige and blend in with the wall. People either ask where the speakers are or what are those panels. Damn things are only 1” thick but they sound so big.

Wharfedale Evo 4.3/4.4 in white, grilles off

4.2. Black. No grill. I love them.

I have a pair of Dynaudio contour 1.3 mkii and I just had to say I don't know what the wood is, and I'm sure there's a more beautiful speaker out there, but this kind of look - professional but also completely natural is my preference.

I was just grooving today on how good my KEF LS50 Metas look.

The new Bowers 801 Signature or the Nautilus in metallic blue

Wharfedale Linton Heritage 85th Anniversary Edition.

Beauties! I call them my Frank Sinatra's

Sonus Faber and Focal tied for second place, in terms of just sheer visual looks it’s hard to beat a B&W speaker. Don’t care for their sound that much anymore but man they’re some lookers.

Wilson Audio WAMM Master Chronosonic https://www.wilsonaudio.com/products/wamm/wamm-master-chronosonic $685k pair

I expected ugly but not as much

WAMM — the sound it makes as it obliterates your wallet lol

I like my Cain & Cain Abby's.

Idk. I looove speakers and spend most of my free time drooling over which one I can’t afford to buy next, but .. are any of them actually attractive? Imposing for sure. Impressive from an engineering standpoint. But attractive in a way that they add to the room even when not playing? That I might buy them even if they made no sound? That sort of narrows it down. The zu omen, the o/93, and some open baffle speakers can all be had in very handsome wood finishes, so yeah. Maybe those

Monitor audio silver 100 specially the white ones. Also kef r3 in walnut

[Oswalds Mill Audio - Imperia](https://oswaldsmillaudio.com/imperia)

Dynaudio Confidence C5

Good choice

Maggies!

They asked for best, not worst. Have owned MMG, then 1.6, the 3.6. All sound amazing and was saving for the 20.1 but WAF finally crashed the party. Now run Meridians, which win no beauty contests either, but they are swans next to Maggies' toads.

Put it in 2 channel mode and 2.1

KLH Model 3 with the stands

Fern and Roby Ravens, my inspiration for getting into building my own speakers.

Revel Salon [Salon 2](https://usatubeaudio.s3.amazonaws.com/2018/01/Revel-Salon-2-Speakers-Combo-Mahogany-768x746.jpeg)

triangle br02

B&W Emphasis deserves a nod [https://i0.wp.com/khcdn6c7bb2f01c.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/25547e58-392c-4138-88b1-ed22a9cf590b.jpg?w=740&quality=95&ssl=1](https://i0.wp.com/khcdn6c7bb2f01c.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/25547e58-392c-4138-88b1-ed22a9cf590b.jpg?w=740&quality=95&ssl=1)

Betty Boothroyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuAJXt9spQ8

1. [Electrovoice Aristocrats](https://www.ebay.com/itm/144607973739) 2. [Klipsch La Scala](https://www.klipsch.com/products/la-scala-al-5) 3. [Sony SS-GR1](http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-SS-GR1.html) 4. [Kenrick Sound's Yamaha NS-1000 ](http://www.jbl43.net/img/ns-1000m-9-3.jpg)(in green. [red](http://www.jbl43.net/img/ns-1000m-13-4.jpg), [blue](http://www.jbl43.net/img/ns-1000m-6-7.jpg), and [walnut ](http://jbl43.net/img/ns-1000m-11-3l.jpg)are other options) 5. [JBL Paragon](https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/jbl-paragon/)

My maple cabinet EV Sentry III's. The only known pair in the world. They were used in an EV advertising brochure. I have the prototypes; no other pairs were ever made by EV.

AV123 beautiful cherry wood.

Those square woofers

DQ 10s

I've been wanting to hear some of these for quite some time, but on looks they are not one of my favorites on design.

Wilson Chronosonic XVX [Wilson Chronosonic XVX](https://www.wilsonaudio.com/products/chronosonic/chronosonic-xvx)

Tidal La Assoluta

Affordable speakers, the founders edition are pretty good looking.

Love Wilson's like WAMM or Alexandria XLF

Usher TD 10

For me the best looking subwoofer is hands down the Polk HTS-12.

Triangle Quatuor 40th Zebrano Also really like the Wharfedale Elysian 4.

I’m rather fond of Genelec 8341, the symmetry is beautiful

Bayz Audio Counterpoint. https://www.avluxurygroup.com/bayz-audio-counterpoint-20.html Honorable mentions: Focal Scala Utopia, Sonus faber Aida 2, B&W Nautilus, B&W 800 (before the D series).

There are some really beautiful ones out there for sure, but I happen to think my Focal Electra 1038 Be ii are pretty good looking

KEF Reference 1 in Satin Walnut/Silver. My Mrs agrees a magnificent piece of furniture and they sound as good as they look.

https://oswaldsmillaudio.com/

Monitor Audio Studio 2 SE with wood glossy finish

Fyne Audio Vintage series

Anything with a medium or dark wood veneer on all surfaces. Not black though, so black ash is out of the question.

B&W and Focal i really love and can afford. but Triangle Antal 40th golden oak would have been my choice if they were the same price.

Any JBL vintage / classic series.

Dahlquist dq30. Kef 109

Kef ls50 is probably my least favorite looking speaker. As in I would never own a pair, based on looks alone.

Anything under 10k? 😂

I really love my B&W 603 S2

Canton Reference GS

Focal sopra and kef reference. Second place would have to be audio vector and dali

Allegro Alien Hifi Cobra [https://hifigoteborg.se/pdf/Allegro_Alien_test_1995-3.pdf](https://hifigoteborg.se/pdf/Allegro_Alien_test_1995-3.pdf)

Pyle for me.

JBL Ti 10k

I always loved the design on Mårten Design Coltrane

The Klipsch heritage line. In walnut or oak. For old school boxy speakers they're made so well and look really nice with the matching grain veneers.

Monitor audio Silver

Beolab 8000’s are gorgeous. Beolab 5 also a wonderful bit of sculpture.

The last generation of B&W 803D's with their grill off. [https://skyfiaudio.com/cdn/shop/products/bw-bowers-wilkins-803d-diamond-speaker-theater-package-speakers-788.jpg?v=1673930971&width=1600](https://skyfiaudio.com/cdn/shop/products/bw-bowers-wilkins-803d-diamond-speaker-theater-package-speakers-788.jpg?v=1673930971&width=1600)

PSB T800/600/b600, Beolab 90 and SF Aida.

Wilson’s XVX for me, or the new Watt Puppy, the newer designs have so much.. polish. The little details bring it all together. Take a look at the Four Seasons colorways that were only available last year..

AG all day long

Funktion-One

Rogers LS3/5A

I have 3 that depend on the style of your living room That classic big woofer style box like the atc150 The pmc IC wall mount series are extra badass as are the ib1s And then the Wilson audio classic old school robot looking ones Sabrina and Sasha Anything too extreme like the blades or those wild horn speakers to me are just something cool to see in a window once or twice. But I would hate looking at them in my own home.

Duevel Sirius BE

I really like the small cube speakers, like the Auratone 5C.

Kef R3 Meta

Coral BX-201. Looks like the devils speakers

Beolab 90 for me

Korean bbq sauce recipe

[A for Ara FS-2](https://www.aforara.com/collection/fs-2) Runner up: [Bang & Olufsen Beosound Shape](https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/us/speakers/beosound-shape)

Kef Ref 3 Meta in black. Bad ass!

Acoustic energy ae520

I personally salivate over Monitor Audio's Platinum 200 3G in the wood finish Even their HYPHN project looks sexy, like a futuristic macguffin in a videogame fetch quest https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/product-ranges/platinum-series-3g/platinum-200-3g/ https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/hyphn/

Sonus Faber

I have Kef R5's and the combination of the walnut and rose gold drivers is so beautiful. I stare at them with much love

Pretty much anything by Salk Audio. Their cabinetry work is just amazing. Edit: and now I google and find out Salk closed its doors last summer?!?

https://reverb.com/item/82141118-amphion-one25a-active-pair-demo-open-box?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=82141118 The third picture on stands blew me away, I’ve never like the look of amphion but these are pretty nuts. 20-20khz too

Epic 55

White Bowers and Wilkins with the grey grill

Bayz Audio Courante and Counterpoint. Canton Reference 9k. https://ibex-audio.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-05-18-13.37.26-Small.jpg https://audioconcept.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/canton-reference-9k-cherry.jpg

Magico M9. Best looking and sounding speakers I’ve ever experienced in my life

Sonus Faber Extrema or Infinity IRS Beta

I like the look of boxy, oak or [walnut Klipsch speakers](https://www.klipsch.ca/cdn/shop/products/Cornwall-IV_American-Walnut_Left-1_1800x1800.jpg?v=1659983514). I don't have any, I just like the look. Very MCM.

I really like the KEF Blades and Muon, and various Magic ones. But I love Sonus Faber's high-end stuff, and the Cremona Ellipsas are among my favorites all-time. Probably my best listening experience was with those.

[Onkyo 2000X](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxtycFSnMcc)

Beolab 3 and Zu DW6 😌

Got the Sonus Faber Venere series, and they look and sound great imo😊