Originally Posted by kenliles
Originally Posted by Chris Geary
[quote=George Mills]I love cherry wood speakers and the 5200's don't look as nice as 5000's.


Do you mean the colour cherry is different? There are a pair of D5Ks on ebay at the moment and they look quite orange, compared to the cherry 5200s M show on their website.

Chris - no the 5K rosewood is definitely not that orange. But it's a little less red than the 5200 rosewood. I have both the 5200 and the 5000 in rosewood; Just posted a couple of pictures that are good color representation and comparison here:
http://gallery.mac.com/kenliles#100033&bgcolor=black&view=carouseljs&sel=0

I'll leave them up for a while - feel free to download...

ken [/quote]

Seems the darker colors (rosewood and piano black) on the 5200's don't look so bad. But the light colors (cherry and silver) on the 5200's make the speakers look like Ski-Ball targets. Where on the 5000's that all look fairly good and I prefer light wood (when appropriate) which is why I like the looks of the 5000's.

P.S. I've confused Cherry and Rosewood TWICE when buying speakers and got me in deep do do.



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