Metal grilles over Linn Keilidh woofers

Hi there,

I’m in the market for some Linn Keilidh speakers. I’ve seen a pair for sale but they have metal grilles over the woofers, as shown here:

http://settrans.net/~rah/misc/linn-keilidh-with-grilles.jpg

This doesn’t look like a standard grille. Searching the web, I can’t find any mention of Keilidhs with metal grilles. Looking at the Wikipedia article, Speaker grille:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_grille

it says that hard speaker grilles limit the output level of the speakers and that higher sound pressure can cause the speakers to distort. I’ve no idea whether the grilles shown in the Keilidh photographs would be a problem though.

Does anyone have an opinion on whether I should avoid these metal grilles?

Thanks,

Bob