I would like more input on speaker grills.

[Highfido]

My idea was, hard felt, close in to tweeter, sorta close to mid, and boxing in the woof. mid and woof geometry squarish.
Half inch thick. Sheer grill cloth. Designed into the speaker cross.

Are most grills accounted for, or meant to run speaker, au natural?

I have read that the felt stops interactions. Making a stable, solid soundstage.

 

[eriksquires]

I'm not sure your statement is English. Are you really talking about a grill or surface treatment?

What is a speaker cross? You are putting grill cloth in your crossover?

Erik

 

[Highfido]

ONE IN THE SAME. That is the point. Speaker crossover. Factored into the crossover. Instead of a nude speaker being measured. One which has surface treatment as at least a secondary goal.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Different schools of thought.
A lot of people design the speaker with the grille off and listen with the grille off. It that case the grille is used for protection only when the system is not in use.
Others will design the grille is such a way as to involve the least interaction between the grille and the speaker and leave it on.
Still others can't tell the difference between the grille on and off and don't bother thinking about it during the design.

 

[adason]

I prefer weber grills...

 

[Pano]

Bear Grylls

 

[chrisb]

add another class to Cal's list - those to whom domestic tranquility is more more important than ultimate sonics
"do what you want in your man cave, dear, but in my living room, I don't want to see them"