Check this thread out guys.

https://www.axiomaudio.com/boards/ubbthreads.php/topics/439791/new-finish#Post439791

Pics and all in that thread, no question about it, the new boston cherry is light years better than the old. The pics do not do it justice, or show the shine in the finish, and those were NOT high gloss. Still they were miles better. The old ones look and feel like a vinyl. The new ones look and feel like a much higher quality speaker and seems like real wood.

Lots of speakers from many
manufactures...mostly Axiom