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jermy4
02-21-2005, 08:07 AM
Do you normally listen to your Ascends with the grilles on or off?

curtis
02-21-2005, 08:32 AM
Grilles stay on...the kids do not even know they come off!

Mag_Neato
02-21-2005, 08:42 AM
Same here.....I think! If the kids know they come off, they don't mess with them.

I'll take them off once in a great while when no one else is home, just to look at those expensive-looking Aerogel woofers!

Kpt_Krunch
02-21-2005, 09:12 AM
Ditto what Curtis and Mag said here - though my son is (so far) pretty good at staying away from Dad's good speakers (can't say the same for my cheap old Kenwoods upstairs though - and in that case the grills don't stop him anyway).

Quinn
02-21-2005, 09:23 AM
On- kids!

Lee Bailey
02-21-2005, 09:51 AM
ON, just because I get too lazy to take em off! :D

I also don't want to offend anyone by showing off a naked woofer phase plug!

Lou-the-dog
02-21-2005, 10:09 AM
On! Too many tiny exploring fingers around this house!

Randy

BradJudy
02-21-2005, 12:00 PM
I'm split - L&R are off, but center, RL, RR are on. With the black boxes I like the look of the grilles on, but with the wood I like the look of them off.

Ben_Wood
02-21-2005, 06:31 PM
On, I just took them off to replace the logos.

jeh
02-21-2005, 10:56 PM
my grills stay on so the fronts don't reflect light and just to protect the speaker if someone happened to bump into them or something. i know if i took them off i'd end up losing them.

bamputin
02-22-2005, 04:46 AM
90% of the time i have them off - they look more dynamic and create more conversation. plus it feels like i'm closer to the music or something ;) :mad:

10% i have the covers on when i have parties, etc. i'm thinking of having a little laminated card next to each speaker saying 'please do not touch - you know not what you do'

Nicholas Mosher
02-24-2005, 08:37 PM
No little kids I have to worry about so I leave 'em off.
I also have that "psycho-acoustic psychosis" where I feel closer to the music when they're off, even though I most likely couldn't tell in a blindfold comparison.

bikeman
02-25-2005, 05:17 AM
"I also have that "psycho-acoustic psychosis" where I feel closer to the music when they're off, even though I most likely couldn't tell in a blindfold comparison."

I feel the same way although your way of describing it beats mine. When the wife's not home, the grills come off. I just wish I could get that image of Madonna out of my head. http://forum.ascendacoustics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

David

ClutchBrake
02-25-2005, 08:25 AM
I leave them on but I don't have children that will go around poking on them. I have me, which is likely just as bad.

Dave Nelms
02-25-2005, 08:57 AM
On for no particular reason.

BillS
02-27-2005, 05:57 AM
On.... mostly because I don't know what to do with the Speaker Grills once their off. WAF also comes into play and mine doesn't appreciate "this hobby" as much as I do. Kids are old enough to know to leave "Dad's Speakers" alone.