If form does not follow function as a general approach, then yes, performance will likely be compromised. I guess that is the point of priorities. That said, there may be ways of engineering speakers that deliver fashionable yet cheap aesthetics whilst limiting performance compromises. Limit, to point, but not remove. They might even perform well in some areas that we are told are important to audio reproduction (but do not interest me musically).
Thankfully, my long time girlfriend enjoys listening to music and is supportive of my enjoyment of music and interest in the whacky systems that bring it into the home. She feels these are more important than what passes for fashionable aesthetics in this sleek and shiny McMansion age of popular "design", within reason, of course. She likes speakers that look like speakers (ie. wooden boxes), as long as they are well made and nicely finished, and she has encouraged me to put two 300L boxes loaded with GPA Duplexes in our small living space, even if she would prefer something a little smaller.
I am thankful.
Cheers.
“As long as we have any intention to be right… we should be wary. So long as words have the slightest ego attachment, they are dishonest.” Charlotte Joko Beck
Edits: 04/23/12
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