OMG, just removed my speaker grills and the sound just opened up to a new level!


My recently purchased Focal Maestro Utopia speakers look so good with their black front baffle and side and back Camara white, I couldn’t even think about removing the grills to hear what they sound like with them off. With nobody around to voice their displeasure to seeing those drivers I boldly went were no man, or in this case myself, said he would never go and removed the grills. Hello, said the speakers
this is what I really sound like. I might not be as pretty, but love me for what really counts, how I sound,
not how I look. I have to say I love them even more and they’re not looking too bad either! 
hiendmmoe
uhoh.....calm down....Geo's here.....

talk of speakers, grills, and girls....don't know how he'll react....

"...just an excitable boy...."

(put the girls down, and pull your grills up....;)  *sshh*)
It’s kind of a mystery why speakers almost always sound better without grills on. After all, the very fine material of most grills is 99.999% transparent. So, that cannot account for the rather obvious difference in sound. Agree/disagree? 
The only reason why I have cloth grills on is because it does now allow guests to get too touchy with my babies. Or stupid kids of guests who are too curious.

Yeah I may be a bad father in the future lol.
GK....Let's chalk it up to the 'observer quantum effect'...or at least, it's a handy thing to blame it on...

One unconsciously feels that 'anything' between the driver(s) and your ears 'Must Be Doing Something'....

Either the air molecules are not able to 'pass through' the fabric/screen, or transmit the waveforms in the air without some resistance from said grille material in some fashion.....

Or we just prefer naked things in front of us.... ;)

ESL's aren't going to work very well without them...

f208frank's has a good rationale for being a future 'baddad' and current one for not being 'a tolerant host'.

That, and keeping the pets at bay.....

"....Dear, why is the cat in the deep-freezer?"

...embarrassing questions like that.....