Plastic is a great material, plastic used by B&O is warm and cool at the same time, with a great feeling and "touch" (beovision 1 and also the beovision 8).
In Italy (the "country of the design") we used plastic from the sixties: masterpieces are made in plastic.
Alluminium is also great but I don't think that the MX series could be made so beautiful in a different material then plastic.
So, I don't mind that b&o use "poor material" because is not poor at all. Too many terrible objects are made in terrible plastic material but the problem is not in the plastic... this is the real problem, so, b&o go ahead using this fantastic material... use it with fantasy and geniusm that's all!
So... tomorrow I will go to book my beovision 8 in white!!!!!