Odd shaped speakers


How can a speaker shaped like a ham be taken seriously? How about one that looks like a giant version of the horn usually associated with Nipper? Or the ones with so many modules and a rack type thing you wonder how the sound can be integrated when the sources it comes from are so disparate? Am I the only one who is satisfied with boxes properly finished or what?
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clueless: R U smoked or salt cured? the seriousness with which you're regarded may be affected very directly by your answer.

with respect for myself and without excuses, i remain the
Clueless, if you are indeed shaped like a ham, you should seek egg shaped speakers. Everyone knows ham and eggs belong together.

Or if you are from Indiana, Hammond eggs.
Some speakers are designed / shaped a specific way for technical reasons. Many times, this type of product can be done so that they don't stand out from the crowd or at least do it in a manner that is not "over the top". Then there are the other times it is for sheer attention getting and cosmetics i.e. "art for arts' sake".

Clueless: As to being shaped like a ham, that really doesn't matter. We've read your posts and already KNEW you were a ham. As such, being shaped like one only seems to go with the territory. I wouldn't worry about it though, as it looks quite natural and you carry it well : ) Sean
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PS... We still love ya anyhow...
You know, when I consider the shape of all things natural, the essence of sound/music itself and the shape of the vast range of musical instruments used to MAKE the music reproduced by audio systems, i.e., the fact that not one (to the best of my knowledge) is a square or rectangle (or simple variations thereof); that indeed most are about as far from being of such simplistic geometric shapes as you can get, it stirs me to thinking that perhaps it is the vast majority of conventionally designed/traditionally-shaped speakers that should not be taken anywhere nearly as seriously as they have been by those in pursuit of the so-called absolute sound.