I dunno -- maybe it's just me, but odd-colo(u)red, injection-mo(u)lded-looking speaker driver cones make me think K-Mart/Walmart grade componentry.
And, yes, I
am lookin' at you, KEF LS50!
As to Klipsch & marketing -- like Harley-Davidson (at least, the H-D of yore), they know their target market well. Very well indeed after 7 decades.
They weren't going for the Darjeeling-quaffing, pinkie-in-the-air
audiophile market, then or now.
another year klipsch by
Mark Hardy, on Flickr
... dating back to the Colonel himself.
CEDIA-No-BS-buttons-social by
Mark Hardy, on Flickr
PWK-BS fashions by
Mark Hardy, on Flickr
with my apologies for the coarse language in those images!
I lived with a pair of
Cornies Cornwalls for a decade, so I feel that I know whereof I speak, Klipsch-wise.