Ugliest component ever created

[Mart68]

Only tube amp I ever liked the look of is the Radfords:



Not pretty as such but at least they look like proper lab equipment.

I don't get the appeal of the exposed tubes, sculpted wood cheeks and shiny brass knobs thing at all.

 

[Purité Audio]

That definitively doesn’t belong in the ugliest component ever created list.
Keith

 

[mhardy6647]

Only tube amp I ever liked the look of is the Radfords:



Not pretty as such but at least they look like proper lab equipment.

I don't get the appeal of the exposed tubes, sculpted wood cheeks and shiny brass knobs thing at all.

Wait, what? I see some tubes hangin' out in the breeze there.

Not a fan of the marantz 8B? Too much tube exposure? She was quite demure about baring her transformers!




She could don some lingerie if preferred.




In all seriousness, the 8B was a redoubtable amplifier.

 

[egellings]

Yes, yes, I know that. The illumination changes color.

True.

 

[egellings]

A very polite amplifier.