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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?
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stanwal
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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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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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stanwal
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Kal, it is not a blanket statement to say that you had never heard a speaker that didn't sound better with the grills off, that is a statement about what you have heard. A blanket statement would be "all speakers sound better with the grills off". The first statement is about what you have heard personally, the second about all possible speakers.
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