Ugliest speaker ever?

[Tom Brennan]

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[jwrauch]

Back when I was a practicing civilian contract dentist at Fort Knox we had to send all our crown and bridge work to the ADL(Army Dental Lab) at Ft Gordon . We received some pretty poor work back from them. I came up with the "Golden Turd Award" as some of the gold crowns looked about like a turd . Needless to say the commander of the lab didn't see the humor in that and I was called onto the carpet for it !!! JOHN

 

[bobsvinyl]

^^^

I found it funny that you you started the Golden Turd Award and your name is John.

 

[DrumminDaddy]

Holy crap! You guys are killing me...

 

[Adamowski]

Here are my JBL Studio 130 speakers. The ‘Weave’ simply refers to the visual appearance of the loudspeaker and, in the Studio 130, this design manifests as the ‘bow-tie-shaped’ plastic extrusion attached to the front baffle and to the two irregularly-shaped grilles, the top-most of which has six sides, and the bottom-most seven! In each case, two of the sides are also beveled, creating even more angles.

 

[Darksyde]

here are my JBL Studio 190s ...

 

[Swamp Trash]

I kinda like the speakers in the OP. *shrug*

I always found the JBL HLS series to be particularly ugly.

My dad has these big B&W's that my mom has always hated. They were kind of a bronzy color on the front, which clashes with the wood and looks weird, and red and blue rings around the woofers. Red on the left speaker, blue on the right. I always thought that particular aspect was kind of cool though.

these are the ones, but like I said he had both red and blue rings on his:

http://audiozavar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/p1070776.jpg

 

[RS Steve]

Butt ugly!

 

[Coytee]

No offense taken on ugly comment, the grills were very 70's. They even came in olive green shades.

Beats Harvest Gold...

 

[vinyldavid]

I'd go with ElectroVoice Sentry IVB. (I assume, having Sentry III's) that they sound as good as they are ugly.

 

[turboyam]

Those were meant to be nice,,, Sounding!

 

[asilker]

Yes, Harbeths. 13 grand for speakers that looks like my dad made them.
"Yah son, I just got this new boxa fancy router bits and I guess we can use these drywall screws."
Maybe not ugly, just that right mix of prestige and butchery that the British use when making stuff.

Reminds me of these thrift store finds of mine:


Some of these designs are truly hideous (I'm thinking of you, PVC speakers...)
Keep 'em coming, boys!

 

[TomReceiver]

For me grill off the DAHLQUIST 10s w/ their patchwork of masonite wood and what looks like a hap hazardly positioning of piezos tweeters, and drivers. Grills on they do sound great but also going against them is rhat open back where the x-over hangs out and that is a huge dust collector
The 2nd and it's a classic speaker would be the AR3a w/ the tape covering the leads and what always looks like a bad surround job.