Who leaves off their cloth grills?

kanicker

And why????

joe logston

i leave mine off, i thank they sound better with them off, i have no kids around to much, wend my grand kids come over i put them on. some reason kids like to polk polks

Ron-P

I leave'em on. After all, they were designed that way.

Peace Out~:D

axeman

OFF!!!!!!

Like a woman, they are at their best nekkid!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe

DarqueKnight

I replace the grille cloth with a lighter, thinner, more sonically transparent knit fabric.

mjmcg

I take the grilles off for listening, and leave them on for protection when the system is off. I have sat down to listen on at least one occasion that I recall clearly when I was disturbed by something with the sound. I couldn't quite put a finger on it, until I stopped the CD and flicked a light on and saw the mufflers, ooops, I mean grilles were still on. Sonic transparancy? What a falicy, it's far easier for light to pass through "transparant" materials than sound due to the shorter wavelengths...so I don't care what you put in front of your drivers you're not doing yourself any listening favors. And if you're any sort of critical listener (that's someone who doesn't consider an audiophile as someone who tosses a CD in the tray and goes about cleaning the house while the music is on) you will notice the difference between grill on and grill off listening. (Users of $299 HT receivers driving $600 Blose speakers needn't worry about such things.) LOL!

There G...how's that? more what you'd expect outta me?...:D

TrappedUnder Ice

I'm afraid to leave them off..my wife might actualy see what I'm hiding behind the grill clothes!

billlb

Grills are off when system is on or company wants to see. Grills are on when system is off. Grills are made for protection and dust, not for sound. Like a good woman, clothing {grills} are off during PLAYTIME.......

ntculenuff

i leave them on, unless i show somebody where all the sound came from, too many grills to take off and on and they look cleaner on. i have watched movies with them off just too look at them work

Micah Cohen

I don't know exactly why I keep my grilles off.

I like the way the RT55i's look with the drivers showing, I guess. If they have the grilles on, they tend to look too boxy for my decor. If you could call what I have "decor."

Grilles are just more stuff to store in my cramped basement.

MC

jcaut

I leave mine on most of the time, due to my four-year old son. The grilles provide practically no protection (the tweeter dome is like 1/8" under the fabric) but since the drivers aren't visible, they're less likely to attract attention.

For critical listening, which I can only do if no one else is home anyway, I take them off.

If it were just me, I'd probably leave them off all the time because I like the way they look.

Jason

Micah Cohen

Cool blue cones. Yes.

MC

juice21

i take mine off when in use, use the grilles to keep dust off of them when they are not in use.

scottvamp

Very interesting. I am inspired to take mine off much more now. But if I took them off every time I listened including surrounds and sub's than that would be 11 grills. Dam that is alot of work.
Ha!:D

smglbrth

I leave the grills on most of the time since those shiny black drivers and clear tweeters are just too much for my kids to resist! When I listen to them, seriously, with classical, jazz, piano or when I'm the only one home I usually leave them off since, to me, they do sound better, not at all restricting. Besides, everyone agrees, pretty much, that they are more attractive with the grills off.
When they're cranked up it's kind of neat to see those drivers want to blow right out of the cabinet!

mjmcg

Originally posted by scottvamp
Very interesting. I am inspired to take mine off much more now. But if I took them off every time I listened including surrounds and sub's than that would be 11 grills. Dam that is alot of work.
Ha!:D

"...including surrounds..." That would imply an HT system. Grilles need not be removed from surrounds for listening reasons. I speak for myself, but I said earlier I remove my grilles for critical listening (2 ch. music only) my HT grilles NEVER come off for any reason...for all practical purposes, niether should anyone elses, unless you want to fool yourself into perceiving hightened, ummm, well...whatever

kanicker

Ahhhh. But then you would have a disparity.
Some "grilles" off, some on.
People would look at you strangely.

I for one am considering taking them off and leaving them off. But in the case of the 800i (that have two grilles each), it looks funny with one off; and with both off -- a little bare toward the bottom where a grille should be, but no cones are located...

Some speaker designs are obviously meant to have grilles off or non-existent. I do not think that Polk put a ton of work in making the RTi line very attractive with grilles off. They look fine, but not breathtaking. Now the LSi on the other hand...

What to do, what to do...

Steve@3dai

I prefer grills on because I can't even image my LSi9s getting damaged in any way shape or form.

It would be interesting to have Micah or Justin to find out if the Polk engineers test with the grills on or off.

Yes, very interesting....

- Steve