I needed on-wall speakers (used for "on-ceiling" height speakers for Atmos and DTS:X) that would blend in to the ceiling as best as possible (ceiling is a darker color). So I got paintable on-walls and painted them to perfectly match my ceiling.
Finish is really nice, even if it is a normally "ugly" color for speakers. That being said, putting my own real wood laminate on them would have been pretty easy actually (if you've ever done something like that before, working the angles on the Axioms isn't that hard). Then you can get whatever wood/finish combo you want. Problem is that a lot of people don't want to take the time or effort to do that, even if they have the tools and experience needed to create a top notch finished product.
