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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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tholt
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Dealing with this issue now -- as I've come to accept that my speakers sound better with grills off, but look much better with them on. Argh...

I just submitted a thread proposal on professional speaker re-grilling, as I would like to re-grill them with more acoustically transparent material. Anyone know of a company that does this?
tholt
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Ah yes, one of my favorite standards from the 40's.

"Grille Of My Dreams".
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Damn, you're old.
tholt
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I started a thread elsewhere re: re-grilling speaker grills. My issue is that, while my current speakers sound better sans-grills, IMO, they are butt-ugly without them (Hyperion 938). So I ended up buying some very acoustically transparent grill cloth from Meniscus Audio and had an auto upholstery shop re-grill them. Win-win.

In general however, all speakers I've owned, including my current ones, sound better without grills.
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