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Ugliest component ever created

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I bet that speaker gets fresh, minty highs though...
 
eugh,...
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And people pay 21K for this :facepalm:
But that's Art, man ! :DIt's written in the brand logoI :facepalm:wonder if this "thing" emulates the sound of a Lambo, which would be even uglier than this object.
By the way, as for luxury cars, I've never beeen a fan of Lamborghini's style, macho hype ugliness. Ferrari and Porsche are much more to my taste.
 
To be fair, I have to include one of my own:

A wooden, carpeted passive subwoofer which also has a plexiglass front.
Came as a present with an SUV I got some years ago and it weights a ton which makes it an even worst idea for a car.

(no photo of mine, I'm sure you all have seen such around)

Looks a little like this but without the light show and the fancy driver:



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(on top of that I always felt that it has this cheap smell on it)
 
But that's Art, man ! :DIt's written in the brand logoI :facepalm:wonder if this "thing" emulates the sound of a Lambo, which would be even uglier than this object.
By the way, as for luxury cars, I've never beeen a fan of Lamborghini's style, macho hype ugliness. Ferrari and Porsche are much more to my taste.
Not sure why I feel moved to act as a Lambo apologist ;) -- but there was a time...

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Looks like it was assembled from the spare parts bin.
Completely unlike the quite original Bow Wazoo!
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The completely gratuitous slide control really pulls that whole aesthetic together, don't you think?
;)

Kind of reminds me of... something...

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Oh, in all (well... some) seriousness, and realizing I've shared this notion before (perhaps in this very thread)*, the gear motif on that Hi-Fi Rose thing puts me to mind of the venerable Argus C3 "Brick". Camera Collector Jason Schneider memorably described the styling of a bevy of relatively inexpensive but somewhat deceptively impressive looking cameras like the Argus as Imitation Precision. :)



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* Actually, to my relief, it was not in this thread.
 
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Oh, in all (well... some) seriousness, and realizing I've shared this notion before (perhaps in this very thread)*, the gear motif on that Hi-Fi Rose thing puts me to mind of the venerable Argus C3 "Brick". Camera Collector Jason Schneider memorably described the styling of a bevy of relatively inexpensive but somewhat deceptively impressive looking cameras like the Argus as Imitation Precision. :)



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* Actually, to my relief, it was not in this thread.
As a brick owner I agree.
 
As a brick owner I agree.
I knew I liked you! :D

I will say this, though - my father and his youngest brother traveled to Bryce and Zion canyons in the early 1950s. My father took scads of photographs on Kodachrome (in those days, the original, ASA 10 stuff, I reckon) with a C3 -- and the images were, and (last time Iooked) are still superb.
My son got me that Argus years back because of my endless rhapsodizing about my father's luck with one. My father and my son were/are (respectively) very good photographers. Unfortunately, the trait skipped a generation. :cool::facepalm:
 
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Oh, in all (well... some) seriousness, and realizing I've shared this notion before (perhaps in this very thread)*, the gear motif on that Hi-Fi Rose thing puts me to mind of the venerable Argus C3 "Brick". Camera Collector Jason Schneider memorably described the styling of a bevy of relatively inexpensive but somewhat deceptively impressive looking cameras like the Argus as Imitation Precision. :)



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* Actually, to my relief, it was not in this thread.
Yes. Ugliness endures. FWIW, that seems to be the stylized C4 and not the iconic C3.
 
Yes. Ugliness endures. FWIW, that seems to be the stylized C4 and not the iconic C3.
I'm sure you're right about the Argus -- I am far from an expert, but the C3s of my ken were brown not grey (or is that gray?).

Not to go too far down an irrelevant (even by my standards! :facepalm:) rabbit hole, but there's another Argus here (also courtesy of my son the photographer/camera/glass collector) that's rather older and somewhat tinnier than the Brick.



ahem - I'll stop now. :)
 
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