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davidmlewisjr t1_ixm9t0u wrote

Reply to comment by surfrock66 in Any idea how to replace a missing metal speaker grille? by surfrock66

There is a company, McNichols, that supplies perforated metals to industry. They have patterns that match what some speaker manufacturers used.

Their products, and similar, from other vendors, are sold by McMaster-Carr in “convenient” sizes to all sorts of people.

If you like the way the speakers you have sound, then you need to be aware that putting something not designed for speaker “grill” application in front of them will possibly change the way they sound.

Now for the crux of the thing… pointing a speaker down to the floor is generally non-ideal. Surround speakers work best pointed out into the room, not down at the carpet. Maybe check out current speaker products… for the future.

Good luck with your quest.

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surfrock66 OP t1_ixn112i wrote

Yea this is a multi-pronged project with a lot of strange needs.

  1. My daughter's room is over it, and there's no insulation over these. At a minimum, we wanted sound dampening over them.

  2. They are super old, and maybe we could justify replacing them, but ultimately they have decent range and sound pretty good.

  3. If we took the in-wall wiring and made little outlet-cover plugs and dropped some speakers below the ceiling, we could aim them better and solve the sound insulation problem.

  4. Wife's tolerance for new/patched ceiling holes is 0 and to be fair mine is close to 0, I hate ceiling texturing and it never looks right.

  5. We have a theater room upstairs with proper sound...this is mostly the "kids watching youtube and playing switch" room. It's super long and NOT optimal sound.

  6. The budget for any project work is influenced by the fact that we're about to put a bid in for a 170k 15 acre property to develop into a retirement home.

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I think the first attempt will be to make a metal rectangle (1/16 thick, 1/4 wide) and try to stretch some fabric over it, then slot it into the speakers. That plus some fiberglass insulation rectangles over the speakers will PROBABLY maximize results with the amount of budget we want to invest.

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tazmo8448 t1_ixn7s0p wrote

yeah if you could find some kind of mesh (as per davidmlewisjr) and paint them as close to the color of the ceiling that would be ideal I'm thinking

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