do fabric stores sell speaker grill coth?

[gogofast]

i personally prefer speakers without grills too.
but last couple months, my wife's friends brought their 4-9 year old children over to my house when they visited, and everytime, my speakers suffer from curious fingers wanting to poke the dust caps and tweeters. my two main speakers were custom made and designed to have no grill cover. in my music room, i have jbl 112, ar-2a, 4x, and ads 710 - all without grills. i get so nervous when those kids come, i can't even go outside. specially, one of them is a super hyper totally out of control freaky brat that literally bounces up and down off the wall and spills and breaks everything that's in his way. my kids on the other hand were perfectly trained to respect the old speakers and to keep their fingers off them.

 

[StarMover]

I've been known to plunder some really crap speakers from the SA just to get the grill cloth. Put them out of their misery... :uzi: istols:

 

[Mark W.]

i personally prefer speakers without grills too.
but last couple months, my wife's friends brought their 4-9 year old children over to my house when they visited, and everytime, my speakers suffer from curious fingers wanting to poke the dust caps and tweeters. my two main speakers were custom made and designed to have no grill cover. in my music room, i have jbl 112, ar-2a, 4x, and ads 710 - all without grills. i get so nervous when those kids come, i can't even go outside. specially, one of them is a super hyper totally out of control freaky brat that literally bounces up and down off the wall and spills and breaks everything that's in his way. my kids on the other hand were perfectly trained to respect the old speakers and to keep their fingers off them.

Duct tape and long wire ties should slove this problem. If you pull an old sock over their hands and up the arm a ways the wire ties won't leave any marks.


I know what you mean my son was so well behaved people I didn't even know used to come up to me at gun shows and tell me they enjoyed talking to my son. This would be when he was under 8 years old!

At the same time had I been able to get my hands on my nephew between ages 6-12 I would have killed him dead on the spot as a way to improve the gene pool. BUT he redeamed himself he joined the Marines and they straightened is little PIA butt right out. 2 tours in Iraq and he's worth talking to.

 

[pmsummer]

I never had the notion to go into a fabric store

Alan

Nice thread.

 

[markus]

Joann's rocks

I've dome some commercial installations where optimal acoustic transparency isn't top priority. opens up LOTS of options for color & texture, and you don't lose much of the sound energy . . .

 

[dew042]

I've been using an open weave linen with very good results. More colors to choose from and looks great.

My Tannoys with linen are below

Gary -

Did you get that fabric locally?

Anybody know a source for foam grills?

Thanks.
dew.