I guess there are no firm definitions for 'Kabuki'.
In this thread the term is being used to imply 'cheap and insubstantial'.
To me the term implies certain styling and design traits: large, massive wooden cabinets with high-quality veneer, a wooden grill with grill cloth behind the wood, and lots of drivers behind the cloth. Mid 1960s - (perhaps) 1980 vintage. Enormous woofers are required, of course, as well as multiple midrange drivers and tweeters. In my view Sansui SP-xxxx, Pioneer CS-xx, Radio Shack's Nova-xx, and Kenwood KL-xxx series are the poster children for 'kabuki'. At the time, they were Japan's best efforts at speaker design. These were manly speakers back in the day, intended to be in-your-face statements of style, affluence, and power.
The speakers sparking the OP's interest show the signs of later 1980's cost cutting: thin particle board cabinets, fragile looking connectors, cheap vinyl veneer and likely cheap drivers, definitely post-Kabuki by my personal definition. That does not mean that they are bad-sounding speakers. They may be be good performers for how OP will be using them.
But $600? That money will buy truly high-quality speakers on the used market. These particular speakers do not appear to fit that description.
