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Grilles or No Grilles

I've always found that 'no grilles' leads to a more accurate listening experience. I've had many different speakers using many different grille cloth and components and always, no grilles works better for me. Often many of my friends find that a WAF means grilles on. What do you think?
buconero117
blkadr
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Speakers with Grilles- on. With Grills- off.
Putting grills on some speakers sound almost like putting some cloth between you and the drivers.
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stanwal
3,147 posts
 
My experience is that no grill sounds as good as no grill. I can't see the point of designing a speaker that needs a grill to attenuate the treble. My Mini Utopias came with a wood cover to place over the speaker when moving or storing and no grills; this seems to me to be the best arangement.
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kr4
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Eee3:
So, the grilles off have it!
50,000 Frenchmen can be wrong.
tholt
551 posts
 
Dealing with this issue now -- as I've come to accept that my speakers sound better with grills off, but look much better with them on. Argh...

I just submitted a thread proposal on professional speaker re-grilling, as I would like to re-grill them with more acoustically transparent material. Anyone know of a company that does this?
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stanwal
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The foam grills like the ones JBL used years ago were suppose to be the most transparent; you could probably make some [or have them made] if the appearence appealed to you. Many speakers now are designed to look good nude, with the front finished to match the rest of the speaker.
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