I'm not looking to buy. Was just curious on the Silver product line.. My NEW Parasound Halo product is Silver and I really like it better than black... Shows less dust.
Silver is also better for being able to see the lettering on the front so that one knows what control is what. There is a reason why books have white paper and black ink for the lettering, and it isn't all about saving ink. Most word processing programs have black lettering on a white background, but it would be equally easy for them to reverse the two. But you would have a much harder time reading the text that way, so they don't generally do it that stupid way.
Black components seemed to get popular when they started making more things out of plastic. It is easier to get plastic to have a good black than it is to have it really look like silver. Brushed aluminum is more expensive than plastic, and so we have lots of black boxes that are much less user-friendly than if they had unpainted brushed aluminum fronts and black lettering.
I would buy only components with "silver" fronts if they were available in what I wanted. But in the U.S., we are not given a choice with most of our gear, and so I have a lot of ugly black boxes. And so I have to turn up the lights to see what the damn controls are. It really makes me like my old vintage gear that has unpainted brushed aluminum fronts, as I can what the controls are and how they are set in dim lighting.
