Oh hey didn’t know you had an account here too! Great to see ya!
I do like the look of my HP-3s, and from memory it might even be the same species of wood as my old TH-X00 ebony which would be a nice coincidence, but I can’t be certain. Honestly though while I don’t mind the wear visible in how the black paint chips off the accents (I used to travel with the Klipsches and am clumsy so it’s… it’s got character now), I just overall prefer the look of the oak ones because there’s something extremely retrofuturistically steampunk about it and that just appeals to me in a big way. Like something Locke Lamora might use almost, haha.
Speaking of the X00, here’s a pic from right after I got mine in 2017 while the lacquer was still pristine:
