Grills on or off??? What do you do?

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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited June 2011
    DeadFeat1 wrote: »
    I keep them on...

    Great user name!! Does it by any chance indicate a a preference for Grateful Dead & Little Feat music??:biggrin:
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  • 27dnast
    27dnast Posts: 255
    edited June 2011
    I guess a lot of speaker grills... especially the curved ones let dust in on the top. I'm always nervous when I dust off delicate speaker parts!

    One thing about grills... they aren't sexy, but they keep little fingers from being tempted!!!!
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  • over50
    over50 Posts: 201
    edited June 2011
    Always on, unless taking pictures.
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  • leftwinger57
    leftwinger57 Posts: 2,917
    edited June 2011
    on most of the time . occasionally I'll remove the grills on the Infintys' but for whatever reason they stay on all the time for the Klipschs'.
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  • finfan
    finfan Posts: 35
    edited June 2011
    On all the time unless its for pictures or to show someone.
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  • 27dnast
    27dnast Posts: 255
    edited June 2011
    Aren't some grills made to enhance the sound????

    Anyhow... anyone every clean dust off of their woofers, etc.? If so, any recommended techniques?
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  • wkdwarrior98
    wkdwarrior98 Posts: 49
    edited June 2011
    ON all the time here.
    H/T Set-up

    Sony Bravia 55" LCD
    Onkyo TX-SR608
    Polk Audio Monitor 60's (fronts)
    Polk Audio Monitor 40's (surrounds)
    Polk Audio CS2 (center)
    Polk Audio PSW505 (subwoofer)

    Zone 2
    Polk Audio Atrium 25
    (perfect speakers by the pool)
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited June 2011
    The only time my speakers are naked is when the wife is not home :eek::smile:
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,685
    edited June 2011
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    The only time my speakers are naked is when the wife is not home :eek::smile:

    Haha. Same here for my Rti's in the HT.

    In my office, my Monitor 70's are always naked, and my new LSi 9's replacing the M70's will most likely also be naked.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,338
    edited June 2011
    When I first got them I left them off all the time but now I just leave them on unless someone comes over and wants to see them...
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  • pstrev
    pstrev Posts: 60
    edited June 2011
    Always on. I tried off, but the wife (cleaning expert) said there is beagle hair and too much pollen in the air- our cars turned green this Spring. Don't need that in my speakers too.

    Pat
    Yamaha RX-A700
    Polk Audio RTi A5
    Polk Audio CSi A6
    Polk Audio RTi A3
    Polk Audio DSW Pro 500wi
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    edited June 2011
    Now if I had a set of LSiM's they would be naked 247 cause they just look so damned SEXY!!!!!!!!


    But those aren't in the work until the 10 year plan, unless Polk raffles some off and I happen to win :rolleyes:
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • victor. askew
    victor. askew Posts: 50
    edited June 2011
    Always off when set up to be played. On and facing the wall when not in the rotation. I dont have a wife and my kid had been around my gear all of her life and knew better when she lived with me( 19 yrs) not to poke the buttons. She did ask a few times what they were so I let her touch them to feel them and that was the end of that.
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    Spkrs- Polk Audio RTI 150 Towers.
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,480
    edited June 2011
    My grills are on when I'm cooking, off when I'm not :biggrin:
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  • cfl70
    cfl70 Posts: 27
    edited June 2011
    always on.it makes me sleep good at night :biggrin:
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,194
    edited July 2011
    On.

    But people who have not seen what's behind the grills almost always wonder what kind of speaker layout is hidden so you have to show it of course. Then the grills go back on.:wink:
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • mikehpolk
    mikehpolk Posts: 27
    edited July 2011
    Always on, but only out of paranoia of tripping and having a fork or something flying into a cone.. though really, it's never happened.

    Though they do seem to sound a wee bit better with the grills off, and it certainly looks nicer.
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  • cubdog
    cubdog Posts: 835
    edited July 2011
    Off. Never even had them on the Klipschs. Now the DQ10s are another story.

    cubdog
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  • jkg123
    jkg123 Posts: 114
    edited July 2011
    Off! Unless you have kids...then on..
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  • 27dnast
    27dnast Posts: 255
    edited July 2011
    Kids... The primary x factor!!! ;-)
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,767
    edited July 2011
    27dnast wrote: »
    Aren't some grills made to enhance the sound????

    You're on the right path. In general, speakers that come with grills are sonically engineered with that in mind. By removing the grills you alter the intended sonics. However, in recent years there has been a trend to use sonically transparent grills, so on or off shouldn't alter the sound.

    Another thought on the matter, if you are sitting there staring at the drivers moving, you really aren't listening to the music. Since I always listen with the lights down low or off and with my eyes closed, the grills stay on all the time.
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  • jaymerkramer
    jaymerkramer Posts: 4
    edited July 2011
    Always leave my grills on, my Polks are shy:eek:
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  • m1aman
    m1aman Posts: 143
    edited July 2011
    Always off.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,204
    edited July 2011
    Always on for protection. I feel if I leave them off I'm gonna come home to a damaged speaker. I don't have young kids in the house anymore as my youngest is 13. I have no pets so no damage there. But I still feel unprotected when I take them off.
    I do however love taking them off when I'm gonna sit and listen for a while. Movies they are always on.
    Dan
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  • styx
    styx Posts: 37
    edited July 2011
    Off til the grandkids come over, then the grills go on in a hurry.
    Styx

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  • matchan
    matchan Posts: 73
    edited July 2011
    On for the most part
    Off when I want to show off or want to "pet" my speakers
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  • 20hz
    20hz Posts: 636
    edited July 2011
    27dnast wrote: »
    Aren't some grills made to enhance the sound????

    Anyhow... anyone every clean dust off of their woofers, etc.? If so, any recommended techniques?

    I clean them off with a 2" soft paint bush .
    I guess if a speaker was to bright it may help tame it , M&K used foam pads under 1/2 of the tweeter ( I am not sure why they did that) .
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  • Tbone289
    Tbone289 Posts: 661
    edited July 2011
    With my HT setup, they're on unless I'm having a "serious" music listening session. The imaging & tweeter dispersion seems better with the thick-framed RT7 grills off. With my computer setup (RT3/PSW10), they're always off for the same reason. The monitors are up on the desk away from danger, and I listen to a lot of music with them.
    2.1: PC>Schiit Gungnir MB>Schiit Freya Noval>NAD C-270>Ascend Acoustics Sierra-1, HSU STF-2 5.1: HDMI Bitstream>Denon AVR-1910>polkaudio RTE55, CS350-LS, RT3, HSU STF-2, Visio M55-F0
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  • Teseract
    Teseract Posts: 44
    edited July 2011
    On currently, I bought cherry RTi12's recently, I like the look other than the silver fronts. Part of me wishes I'd forked out for the RTi A9 in cherry instead, but the price difference was too much.

    When I had the stepkids around, definitely on. If your kids have small animals that can get loose you might want to put some kind of grill on the speaker ports too. My stepdaughter's hamster got loose once and decided my subwoofer was an awesome place to build a nest, and stole a bunch of foam from another speaker to make it.

    Turned the sub on one day (usually left it off at the time to let kids sleep) and I had a horrible rattle from the sub. Went to look at it and found the hamster running in circles behind the sub and caught it in a towel and deposited it back in it's cage. Didn't think much about it until I got the sub apart and found dog food, shredded foam and other junk packed around the cone and the wires chewed on. I'm sure it got a rude awakening when the first bass note hit.

    From then on I kept some wire mesh duct taped to open speaker ports until the stupid animal finally died (of natural causes).
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  • 27dnast
    27dnast Posts: 255
    edited July 2011
    ^^^^^^

    That is hysterical.

    You just put some serious life into this thread.

    Epic!!!!
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