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A fellow Bozakhead is looking to replace tattered grille cloth to his pair of moorish Symphonies and contemorary styled Concert Grandes.
Would like to use OEM fabric, but may not be available.The Symphony fabric appears silk-like with accordian folds under metal lattice work. Concert Grande fabric reminds me of cream canvas or linen with nub-like texture.
Anybody know what the original color/material used was and suggest near original alternatives?
Lastly, does see-through cotton such as muslin or osnaburg material block or limit highs and thus not be desireable?
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This is a big job on CGs and Symphonies. First---do not google speaker replacement cloth. I did and bought from two sellers--it was crapola. I was looking for plain off white and black. I ended up at the sewing store and found a light weight (almost see through) meezar type poly cloth. It was perfect--- a little stretchy. My hope was to mimic the gathered curtain "factory" look of the cloth--forget about that---you need four extra arms!I did over a pair of Morrish CGs--what a PIA. Remove every staple one at a time, don't dare bend the cardboard/fiberboard, you'll see. I even repainted the cross hatch grill work (a soft gold)---another PIA. A good five hour job. I put them back in place and wouldn't you know it...the gold grills stood out (like sore thumbs) reflecting with the plasma with the lights off (these CGs are the heart of my HT set up). So...
I did it all over and without the metal grill work---its looks totally goth---I love it. I drive these bi-amped CGs with Pio M-25s. They sound as good as my MBL 101Es. The bass is scary.
Original style grillcloth for the CG's is next to impossible to find. I have looked for several years. There are a few companies which make some cloth that is close. Try www.acoustone.com, out of New York, for some samples of whats available.
John
Make that: http://www.acoustonegrillecloth.com/#
I'm out of it tonight- sorry! http://www.acousticalsolutions.com/products/fabrics/grille_cloth.asp
my original symphony grillecloth is long gone. i replaced them with a black stretch type of material. i too have been wondering how different material would affect the sound but i am too busy to try anything else. let us know what you decide.
Visited several fabric stores today and came across a cream colored silk-like material called handwoven dupion, $16.50 per yard. Available in ivory and eggshell, too. All three close in color and might be near enough to moorish CG/symphony material. Sending sample to my friend who lives out of state.Regarding the contemporary style CG, cotton muslin or cotton osnaburg has right texture and look, but we aren't sure if high frequencies would suffer. Anybody have first-hand experience with 100% cotton?
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