Sorry to hear that. It’s clearly not going to please everyone and it’s always a challenge to do something different.
It’s truly a shame you won’t allow yourself to even hear it when it launches. It is an amazing sounding product.
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Function first, form a distant second.
I’d give house room to those ridiculous Nautiluses assuming they were the only way to get the sound I wanted (and I had the ridiculous amount of cash they want).
Veneered furniture it nice and all, but requires a different set of expertise in furniture making etc. My own view (disclaimer - I’m not in the market for 'em I’m afraid) - concentrate on the sound, @Paul 
Agreed, sound über alles.
Speakers do not sound good based on how they look.
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way to go paul
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Both form and function have to be there for me. If one or the other is missing, then for me and in my opinion it is an incomplete design.
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Exactly.!
Paul said he didn’t want to build just another speaker. The idea was to set the design apart from traditional speakers that everyone is so used to.
“They all sit basically on the floor - they might be up on a small stand or foot - but basically not furniture”. “Big clumps taking up space in the living room”… “I think the WAF is pretty high”.
PS Audio decided to design and build speakers that didn’t look like speakers in the traditional sense, PSA furniture, resplendent in unusual chair type legs.
Well - if not loudspeakers but furniture stylized: I’d like to know what furniture they’re design maps them out to be. F3: Form, Fit and Function of said natty, unusual furniture.?
More aesthetically pleasing? Definitely not for me!
The thing is, they will be standing on the floor, ‘two of them’, where traditional (looking) speakers would stand, big power amplifiers in close proximity and spk cables attached that could support a suspension bridge.
Nothing remotely resembling a photo in a brochure; one piece of non-descript ‘speaker-furniture’, a chair and a tall plant. The sterile look and feel of complete domestic simplicity and harmony!! When all is said and done – they are what they are – unusual looking loudspeakers…
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No shortage of those (unusual looking loudspeakers) from my experience. Someone could start a separate thread to memorialize them for our collective amusement.
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Yes…I completely agree with you. Some weird and wonderful speakers.
Only my feelings about the FR-30.
Others can and will disagree.
They’re just not for me.
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I’m on the fence myself. I’ll have to see 'em in person. Fortunately, being a resident of Colorado and 50 miles from Boulder makes that relatively easy.
I listened to the incarnation before this very latest “FR 30” design at the last RMAF and very much liked what I heard.
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As a current owner of NHT 3.3 speakers, it’s not surprising that I like the look. However, I’m more intrigued to hear how they sound.
If y’all scroll up a few hundred posts or so the aesthetic thing has already been beaten to death 
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I, too, liked the photos of the previous iteration / incarnation.
You are fortunate to live in close proximity to PS Audio. I was shocked when I first clapped eyes on the FR-30! Light-years from the previous iteration … Now looking kinda like a pair of stacked Dell type, computer towers with walnut chair legs…
Obviously – only my feelings and opinion, which amounts to zilch!
Regardless of how great they might sound I just couldn’t have them in my house…!
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I’m confused on the decisions on the new/final design, looks like previous generations were almost unanimously liked on the forum, yet the final decision is based on a design that at best lukewarm. I wish PS Audio all the success but count me in as one of those that isn’t receptive of the final design, my wife agreed with me, so the WAF argument won’t work for me.
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Vandersteen 5’s are remarkable speakers!
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Glad the PS audio Team has come full circle and scrapped the original AN3 plan for 15” wide speakers with 12” front facing woofers!!! I suggested narrow speakers to Paul at the beginning as did a few others.
I too believe sound trump’s function but speakers still need to fit into most domestic landscapes unless you have a dedicated ‘man’ space.
Paul as I told you from the start, with a complete BHK/Directstream system, I am a potential beta tester / buyer when when the time comes. This assuming the trade in allowance is good enough now that there are no dealers to discount the price.
Ya’ll remember the the Harman Infinity Prelude MTS?
Talk about ugly…
Give ole Uncle Paul a break… what Paul is cooking up will be a whole
lot better looking by along shot than the MTS than Harman with all it’s resources cooked up with this one…
Paul’s latest iteration is a ton a lot better looking than the MTS.
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Btw here is a stereophile review on the Infinity MTS
I use a pair of Watkins WE-1s, talk about wide, they are 32 inches wide, 53 inches tall and only 12 inches deep. One of only 230 pairs ever made and they are 37 years old.
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Not looking to downgrade the ‘look’ of my room.
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