JohnK,
Thanks for the link. Very interesting, and it does seem that one of the screens, the ClearPix, does best overall.
I'm inclined to agree with the reviewer, who generally advises people not to put good speakers behind perforated screens, but I do understand the demands of decor and the look of expensive custom installations.
It just bugs me that we go to great lengths to achieve linearity and smooth out glitches in frequency response to then have it undone by putting the speaker behind a not-so-acoustically transparent screen.
Of course, any customer can decide how much compromise in sound quality to accept by simply listening to the speaker behind the screen and then without the screen. After all, we've gotten speaker grilles to the point where there is no audible degradation at all with the grille in place.
Regards,
