Form Over Function -- Use of Speaker Grilles

TonyPTX
TonyPTX Posts: 545
edited January 2003 in Speakers
Ok, so I've been here for 2 months now. I've viewed almost everyone's system in the showcase. The general trend I've noticed is that most people don't have the speaker grille on in the photos. Not sure if they were removed just for the photo, or if people generally remove the grille and go sans grille in their day to day audio listening.

Is the general concensus:
  1. No grille because they look cool that way!!
  2. No grille because they baffle the sound...
  3. No grille because I took it off for the photo.
  4. No grille because it broke last time my significant other screamed out in pleasure and had to grab something and it happened to be your cherished speakers?
Damn....8 lines...I've gotta put my sig on a diet now....
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,647
    edited January 2003
    I grill.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • izafar
    izafar Posts: 819
    edited January 2003
    Me too, though I wanted to try it the other way, but couldnt do so due to a todler at home.
    -izafar

    Goldenear Technology Triton 1 - Benchmark AHB2 - Benchmark LA4 - Auralic Vega - Auralic Aries Mini - Marantz TT-15S1 - Clearaudio Nano
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,519
    edited January 2003
    I grill it.


    Peace Out~:D
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited January 2003
    grills on, unless showing off
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited January 2003
    Flame kissed here too.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • MxStYlEpOlKmAn
    MxStYlEpOlKmAn Posts: 2,116
    edited January 2003
    grill all da way.
    Damn you all, damn you all to hell.......
    I promised myself
    No more speakers. None. Nada. And then you posted this!!!!
    Damn you all! - ATC
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  • Soccerplyr
    Soccerplyr Posts: 160
    edited January 2003
    grill, even though I hate the fact they the bottoms pop out on the 70's
    Pioneer Elite VSX-21TXH
    Monolith 7x200 Amplifier
    Harmony Hub
    Sony VLP-HW40ES
    Visualapex 106" Electric Screen
    Oppo BDP-103
    Music Hall MMF 2.1
    Polk LSiM 705
    Polk LSiM704c
    Polk LSiM702F/X
    SVS PB-2000
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2003
    Leave the grills on.
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

    "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited January 2003
    On
    9/11 - WE WILL NEVER FORGET!! (<---<<click)
    2005-06 Club Polk Football Pool Champion!! :D
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  • scottvamp
    scottvamp Posts: 3,277
    edited January 2003
    Grills on, unless showing off - but sometimes I leave them off for awhlie - let'em breath.
    I do like the concealed look though.
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  • Dr. Spec
    Dr. Spec Posts: 3,780
    edited January 2003
    Originally posted by faster100
    grills on, unless showing off

    ditto
    "What we do in life echoes in eternity"

    Ed Mullen (emullen@svsound.com)
    Director - Technology and Customer Service
    SVS
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  • goingganzo
    goingganzo Posts: 2,793
    edited January 2003
    i keep my grills on caues i dont want to dust the woofers.
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited January 2003
    Originally posted by izafar
    Me too, though I wanted to try it the other way, but couldnt do so due to a todler at home.

    same boat here...
    ***WAREMTAE***
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  • GordM
    GordM Posts: 1
    edited January 2003
    grilled
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited January 2003
    Originally posted by goingganzo
    i keep my grills on caues i dont want to dust the woofers.

    No **** man, and from your posts, you keep all the *dust* in your schnoz, why waste any?

    'I'm so wasted'

    Cheers,
    Spicoli
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited January 2003
    I have a 4 year old, and had my polks when she was younger and she "never" touched them, didn't even have to say "no no" one time, she just knew better i guess, On the other hand my good friends kids have poked all the centers in on his speakers and he says to me, when he was over with the kids and they wen't near my speakers,"ah she does that to mine all the time" I said but not to mine! I leave them on for dust reasons and looks although none of my friends are really into audio like all of us and are totally impressed when i demo my gear and all the covers are off.. I know i already posted but thought i would add about the kiddies, I now have a already whew 6 month old baby girl and she to will know not to touch the speakers..
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • MxStYlEpOlKmAn
    MxStYlEpOlKmAn Posts: 2,116
    edited January 2003
    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    'I'm so wasted'

    Cheers,
    Spicoli

    Man, thats the experimenting at work......see...i learned from ur mistakes! LOL!
    Damn you all, damn you all to hell.......
    I promised myself
    No more speakers. None. Nada. And then you posted this!!!!
    Damn you all! - ATC
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  • Zen Dragon
    Zen Dragon Posts: 501
    edited January 2003
    I always kept the grills on my 10B's, cause the driver material had a sticky quality to it. (Even before I became intimate with my speaker)
    Now my LSI9's fly naked, cause they just look so good without the grill.
    The Family
    Polk SDA-1C's
    Polk SDA-2
    Polk Monitor 10B's
    Polk LSI-9's
    Polk Monitor 5's
    Polk 5 jr's
    Polk PSW-450 Sub
    Polk CSI40 Center

    Do not one day come to die, and discover you have not lived.
    This is pretty f***ed up right here.
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  • joe logston
    joe logston Posts: 882
    edited January 2003
    grills off, all grills are in storage, if i have cats or kids it would be different. it makes a cleaner sound i think.
    . rt-7 mains
    rt-20p surounds
    cs-400i front center
    cs-350 ls rear center
    2 energy take 5, efects
    2- psw-650 , subs
    1- 15" audiosource sub

    lets all go to the next ces.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2003
    Normal = on

    Serious listening + showing off = off

    For pics when I post my rig, I want them on, but “gif” the pic so they peel off when you pass cursor over them…

    Just like the chick pic har posted yesterday… :eek:
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • goingganzo
    goingganzo Posts: 2,793
    edited January 2003
    that would be cool for the website of polk audio to do to see their speakers.
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  • Dwain
    Dwain Posts: 13
    edited January 2003
    Grills on except for the subs.


    Denon 3802 receiver
    Denon DvD 1600 progressive scan
    CS240i center
    RT1000 fronts
    RT28i surrounds
    FX300i Rear back surrounds
    Velodyne CHT 10 sub
    Velodyne CHT 12 sub
    Mitsibishi 27" tele
    Monster cables/ 10 ga speaker wire
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