who cares of the box doesn't look great. anyone can slap together some carpet and make it look good.
i don't carpet my box. why? i want people to make fun of it so they would say "eeww..i dont' want that..looks shitty" and guess what, they won't want it. That's good for me. Put a pyramid sub in a fiberglass show-quality install blah blah blah and what happens next? system gets stolen because it looks "awesome".
i buy my equipment to listen to, not to show off and get it stolen. Nothing wrong with carpetting, but it is not a necessity.
now if someone wants to buy me carpet to carpet my box, then sure. I don't mind that. Otherwise, my box stays uncarpet! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif