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Is there a reason you take the speaker covers/grilles off your speakers?

Romeo Wolf

Romeo Wolf

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Obviously I'd assume you guys just like the appearance with your speakers, as with I.

The reason why I take the cloth covers off my Sanyo SSV16's when in use (nowadays) is because they rattle when I play music. This being that they're really tall, and thus are hilariously flexible.
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Oh and why the hell is Christmas music playing on one of the local radio stations when it's only No Nut November? o_O
 
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folks do it for the added high frequency energy because they are old and need all the help they can get without using tone controls, we are a particular group and don't want the signal degradation.

Some speakers are voiced with grilles, others without, so going sans grilles invites dust cap predators and provides either as designed sound or boosted highs or cut highs. And that change isn't much. And don't forget the sticky dome tweeter getting to be a fur ball when the speaker with a cloth grille s used sans grilles.
 
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It makes it much easier for children and bored adults to poke in the dust caps with the grilles removed.
Sometimes with the grilles on the dust caps may not be entirely visible. Removing the grilles make the target much easier to hit.
Crushed dust caps help give wider dispersion so the system sounds better.



I'm kidding.
 
For me it's half and half. Some speakers look better with the grills off and others I prefer the grills on. When I have speakers not in use I keep grills on to protect the grills. I would prefer a grill gets snagged then a hole peirced thru a driver
 
To listen to the speakers of course. I never listen to speakers with the grills on. Why would you want anything blocking some of the sound? Hold your grills up to the light. You see how much light that blocks? Well that’s how much sound they block.
 
depending on the type of grill and cloth a grill can act as defuser, an attenuator at certain frequencies. If it vibrates sympathetically it can color the sound. With Grills. drivers becoming very pricey now days grill are almost mandatory. Some speakers like Snells A7 Illusion there were no grills. If you have 4 legged pets grills are a very necessary accessory. Even with my kittens front claws removed they still love to paw on the metal part of the grills.
 
Blue Shadow said:
Some speakers are voiced with grilles, others without[...]
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It's pretty easy to tell which is which. If the baffle has an attractive finish and/or the brand name is prominently displayed there then one can assume they're made to be listened to without grilles. Some brands utter locomotive-size hints by not providing any grilles whatsoever and at the opposite end some glue the grilles in place. The latter is usually done to lower manufacturing cost by leaving the baffle in the rough so to speak, and provide higher value (think Paradigm Atom v3) since it's a lot cheaper to cover the front than to finish it. The former is relatively common in the high-end segment but a few El Cheapo units are also left in the nude to expose horrible finish and odd drivers that are meant for show and sound bad. I remember as a teen I had Hitachi "grillesless" boxes that had a purplish fabric tweeter and -I kid you not- an aluminum woofer. Of course I had bought them for their cool looks ("ridiculous" was the term my father used) because I didn't know any better. They were the worst sounding speakers of the whole neighborhood me recalls, but I wouldn't admit it. That was about the same time I developed a strong bond with headphones. Coincidence?
 
And nothing looks as pretty as a set of OHM Acoustics logo caps except cerwin-vega caps on their woofers as they move!
 
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