Someone hit Martin Logan CLX with the ugly stick?

Cain & Cain's are beautiful next to Hansen's.

Well, it's at best controversial. The outer framing lookes ok, but the backside looks like cheap MDF haphazardly put together. The curved and flat panel looks odd together. I think ML should have looked at their Statement and separated them out with framing of the curved panel and leaving the flat panel slightly apart like the mid/upper bass tower. The base support should have been designed like the Statements also. But separating the panels may affect the sound. I'm not talking about sonics here, just looks.

Yea the 55Hz lower extension is piss poor especially similar SoundLab units extend down to 30Hz. A >$20k speaker should not look so poorly made. True, in real life it may look better but I doubt it. The CLS was light years ahead in terms of aesthetics.

Call me vain but ultra priced speakers not only should sound great but look the part as well.

If Gale Sanders were still at the helm, the design would have been better me thinks. If you found an extremely comfortable chair for $3000 but it was puke green, Brady Bunch, 70's style Lazy Boy chair, would you buy it and put it in your modern home? I don't hate the style, just looks cheap for the money.

Martin Logan owner here (Summits).. and even I have to question the design team for the CLX.

I don't know why it looks that way.

It looks like a room-separating panel.