What are your ideal speakers?

[mpdhrd]

After getting fairly good response on my thread about What drew you to your receiver, I thought I'd ask What are you ideal speakers... I'm not looking for specific brands and models, but if you were go to a store with the idea of "this is the speaker for me" what would it be. (Hope that's not too confusing). I guess I'm asking you to design your own speaker. Try not to be too rediculous with a million dollar speaker, but describe something "within reason."

For me, I like big badass bold looking speakers. Towers today may be tall but they are too skinny and the small drivers produce a thinner weaker sound that requires a subwoofer to get any serious punch. I like my system where the fronts can handle a good part of the bass duty and can stand alone in 2 channel stereo. So I guess I would combine what I like in old school 70's speakers and modern towers. I would seek a 3 way speaker with a good tweeter, midrange, and dual 10" woofers. And for the box, I'm not a fan of black generic looking speakers that seem to be everywhere and I dont like some speakers that seem to insist on putting plastic bases and accents. (Polk, Klipsch, JBL all look the same). So if I were to design mine, I would use a good veneer... maybe rosewood or a deep oak or something that really shows off a good wood grain. I'd like to show off the speaker and have it look just as good with the grill on as off.

So what do you like? Describe your ideal speaker... maybe you already own the pair that you love. Maybe for you, you require small hidden speakers for an apartment or in wall speakers for hidden theater setup. Or maybe you like the look of an econowave setup. A friend of mine told me that with what i've described they would be about 5' tall and weigh 100 pounds apiece and I'm sure they are a little out of my price range without some time to save... but that's why this is a fantasy question.

Matt