As Chris said earlier there are threaded inserts in the bottom of the speakers that anyone can use for traditional footers or outriggers if they want to discard the supplied stands.
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I guess what Paul should do, is provide several marketing pictures how they integrate in nice modern home environments, I’m convinced that’s their strength (the more if there also was a color option that better integrates in light environments, too).
Picturing them alone without proper environment or in a situation besides other conventional designs or in a pure technical listening room environments rather features their less aestetical characteristics.
That’s the decision pro or con not properly planned early communication as badbeef mentioned. In the way it runs now, we’re lucky to be early involved, but Paul definitely doesn’t get the reception the design might have deserved when presented properly. A decision he always seems to take towards early communication …which has other advantages like generating lots of good (and some less good) marketing upfront and keeping the forum busy.
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Exactly. Yes, we will offer the legs in several finishes as well as the grille cover colors.
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Yup. Gottcha. That dark color was the first worry of our chief dust worrier, Terri. As Beef says, it will also be available in white. I suspect we’ll make sure the feet are also available in different materials, finishes, and colors as well as the grilles. This should give folks the options to dress them up to better fit their home decor.
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We will indeed have some great pictures of the design in differing rooms and with different furniture. We just finished a shoot with the speaker in a modernish room and it looks cool. When the new catalog comes out you’ll find that picture inside.
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Yes! Having a speaker at home and seeing it in a Hi-Fi show room environment or in a magazine are two very different things. Home rules.
Paul if I recall correctly in an earlier post, way way earlier, you had said that the new design (AN-3s at the time) had one of its goals to allow for closer location to the back wall, making it more fitting for real life living rooms. I realize that every room is different and every room impacts the speaker differently, but are the FR-30s more back wall friendly? Curious.
Most deliveries are delivered as they should. But there are those who care so much for customer service that they consider that it’s easier to leave the big heavy boxes in the car, drive back to the distribution center, drop the half loaded car and keys and let the next shift worry about it.
Luckily it’s my experience that it is rather the exception.
Morning
I’ve read a good portion of this very large thread, but I haven’t seen or am not clear on an estimated release date. I’m sure I’ve missed it, but if anyone knows?
Cool thing about living in CO, maybe I’ll be able to hear them in one of the listening rooms in Boulder. 
Thanks
Shaun
They look way better than my doors(ahem maggies) 
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really excited to see and hear these at Axpona (hopefully Axpona still happens…). I love the design, and if all goes well with these I plan to start saving to make the FR-20 my next (final?) speaker purchase. I wonder how that will differ from the 30’s. Have a third unit to stack upon the other two?..
What makes this a fake photo is not that it was photoshopped, but that seperate subwoofers are just not needed with an FR-30
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adifferentpaul,
Well done! I like the look far more in an actual listening room. Thanks for doing the work on that.
Ryan
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Wow, not bad in a real settings, still can’t get over those feet. Hopefully it looks good without the grill, looks like Paul and co, is all into the look with grill.
Also, would there be a L and R speakers? So that the bass drivers face each other?
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Not positive, but I don’t believe so - the drivers are on both sides of both halves of the speaker, and the tops’ mids are passive, while the woofers are both powered.
The feet and trim would look good in natural carbon fiber 
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Your doors have their pluses, of this I have no doubt.
@Paul @Chris_Brunhaver if it’s not a secret, can you share the crossover point between the mid and midbass drivers (I’m an amateur speaker designer and am simply curious)?
And also a small suggestion: perhaps make the speaker rings (the gold ones) color matched to the stands? I think this will tie up the aesthetics into a more consistent whole.
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Yup. The FR-30 will have the same controls to allow closer placement to the rear wall.
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What about to the side walls? Can they be closer than the conventional speakers?