I am extremely happy with my Hsu VTF-3 that I recently bought, and can recommend either the VTF-3 or its little brother VTF-2 for a smaller room (my room is over 5000 ft^3).

As for the "looks," in fact my Axioms are Cerry. When I ordered the Axiom and Hsu, I had figured that because of their black grills they would still nicely match with the black Hsu, which turned out to be true (as long as you use them with grills on).