they work fine for preventing grandkids' fingers they are a big enough diameter and round so pretty stiff the fingers cannot reach the speakers ! and cats reaching thru can't get close enough either
always someone critical that does not think it through !
" Chicken wire won’t stop a finger poking 3 year old. Use Hardware Cloth instead. "
OK not so acousticly transparent !
this is good i have thought of it :
"My friend did this with his old ESS Heil Air Motion Transformer AMT-1A speakers in the late 1970s (which we thought were "high end"). He made some nice wooden frames to hold the chicken wire and back in those days he had to spray paint it black. He stained the frames the same as the speakers. Looked nice and didn't seem to affect the sound at all. He had two kittens and had never had cats before so it was all a learning experience. Worked fine. Grilles were never scratched."
Secure the frames across the top of speakers w/ some velcro pads ?
I had to safety wire my speakers to wall W/ an anchors the way you do w. shelves and dressers & TV's now as one kid grabbed it tipped it over ! and it almost fell over on him! - Big tall tower speakers! could have crushed the little guy ! OUCH could have been a tragedy !
thx all
just wanted to share my fix for making my speakers cat and grand kid proof!
you can get black chicken wire ( and other colors ) fr hardware store and easily make theses and prob do a better job than i did it is virtually acousticly transparent. this really works and we love our 15 cats all recues , mostly tamed formerly ferals
ferals are best pets ! smart , strong like to play . loyal , will bond amazingly well 