 Grills - Yes or No
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Whenever I have seen pictures of different HT setups, many of the speakers are without grills. Do most of you leave your grills off? Is there any reason other than looks?
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Some like their speakers naked, that's all.
I leave mine on, but if I was taking pictures (I KNOW. I still need to do that.) I might take some with them off. It shows off the cool factor of the Axiom speaker.
There is no audible difference, so there is no performance factor to worry about. Just looks.
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While they do look very cool off I leave mine on so that even the little light in my room won’t reflect off them while watching movies. Plus I’m a klutz so it’s just a little more protection in case I do something stupid.
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On 99% of the time, 1% naked when taking pictures. 
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I find the placebo effect makes everything sound better when the grills are off. I put the grills on whenever there is a risk that visitors might be sneaky cone pokers or port fondlers.
Oddly enough I never feel any urge to remove the grills on the QS8s. Then again QS8s have 4 grills per speaker so we're not talking immediate gratification there.
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I leave mine on for protection. But for me, the verdict is still out about acoustic transparency of the grills.
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I think that Alan mentioned at one time your talking about .5dB maybe, pretty insignificant.
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I'm not worried about sound attenuation. I'm the guy that only applies a watt per side, remember  ?. I'm more concerned about diffraction and hence poorer imaging. The imaging is great as it is. I'm just wondering if it could be better with the grills off.
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Quote:
I find the placebo effect makes everything sound better when the grills are off.
Ah... if only more "audiophiles" would be more open to this powerful effect as it applies to much more than grills... 
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