Speaker grills on or off?

I'm lucky. My speakers use Accuton drivers which have a permanently affixed metal grill. I get the best of both worlds: They don't interfere with the music and I can clearly see the drivers.

All the best,
Nonoise

I like designers who make speakers that look good with grills off (covers over the driver screws maybe, hidden grill holding magnets, etc.), and I particularly like tweeters designed to have little mesh screens on them to ward off poking, accidental or curiosity driven. I was talking to a guy at a local Extreme HiFi shop about that…specifically the exposed tweeters on a Magico…he said hey, it happens…damn…Shirley’s been drinking again and wondered about that tweeter...

i saw a report in the net years ago. it's an independent test using a microphone placed at a normal listening position, using scientific software and recording equipment to access the difference with speakers grills on and off. The results clearly reflects there are roll off in certain parts of the frequencies spectrum, not just in the treble or bass. 
So it does depends on the listener preference whether he like grills on or off. 
-phil

philipwu
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10-20-2016 6:00am
i saw a report in the net years ago. it’s an independent test using a microphone placed at a normal listening position, using scientific software and recording equipment to access the difference with speakers grills on and off. The results clearly reflects there are roll off in certain parts of the frequencies spectrum, not just in the treble or bass.
So it does depends on the listener preference whether he like grills on or off.

Sounds good. Do you have a link for the report you refer to? It sounds as if the report would be quite convincing but without seeing the report itself color me skeptical.

For example this report I’m linking to below appears to indicate that while there might be some measured differences they’re too small to explain the phenomenon. So perhaps the phenomenon is caused by something else other than aberrations the grills might produce. 

http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/06/measurements-effect-of-speaker-grills.html


Cheers

geoff, i could not remember that magazine that was put up in the net. it wasn't in english though. i used 3rd party app for translation, but the graphs are easy to understand.