Grilles on or off?

[Akira]

(Why) Do you play your speakers with grilles on or off?

[Mr. Widget]

Depends... are they listening to or looking at. I doubt there is a speaker made with better performance with the grilles on.


Widget

[SUPERBEE]

(Why) Do you play your speakers with grilles on or off?


Mostly "On"

Sometimes "Off" if I am feeling naughty

[Baron030]

With the grills on.

Personally a good grill cloth is will fine lingerie.
It may cover everything, but it will still let you see all the naughty bits.
mmmm...naughty bits.

[Fred Sanford]

The grilles are on to protect from fingerpoken and mittengrabbin. Oh, and pooches- the 4333As are currently at floor level. No, they've never touched the speakers, and never even thrown a toy against the grilles...pretty sure they can sense that avoiding the speakers is an important key to their survival. :applaud:

The grilles are off when I'm alone and listening, or taking pictures for LH folks. The L110s have some pretty transparent grille cloth, though, they often stay on. The L46s and L100s are about 7' up now, but I still just don't trust the fingerpokers.

Gotta go take a grilles-off picture now...

je

[UreiCollector]

Off when critically listening.....the grilles do attenuate those high freq's a bit. And I like to look at those blue horns.

[diamondsouled]

When I used to have the thick 'transparent' acoustic foam grilles on my Valencias I would take them off when doing private auditions. With select company as well. For parties the grilles go on of course and when not in use to keep sun light off.

Lar

[Rusnzha]

Studio series sounds better with them off.

I like my L100s fine with them on.

[JBobL]

I gave a fine pair of old (early 70's) Marantz 3-ways (but 4 speaker) that were refoamed to a friend and his dog pissed on 'em!:( Grills saved the 12" woofers.:) Now he keeps a plastic garbage bag over them until music time.
Grills on for me.

[SUPERBEE]

I gave a fine pair of old (early 70's) Marantz 3-ways (but 4 speaker) that were refoamed to a friend and his dog pissed on 'em!:( Grills saved the 12" woofers.:) Now he keeps a plastic garbage bag over them until music time.
Grills on for me.

I love dogs
I love JBL

If a dog ever pissed on one of my JBL's it would soon be an EX dog!

[Fred Sanford]

+1 reason for female dogs...although one did convince herself that there was buried treasure under my piano-black NHT sub once, so there are odd horizontal scratches along the bottom of one side.

je

[invstbiker]

Grills on for a finished look...:)

[Vintage Nut]

I take the grills of occasionally, just to verify that it is my ears that are distorting and not the drivers. :D

[lovethatsound]

80% of the time OFF.

20% of the time ON.

:bouncy: