Thank you very much.
I have noticed a major change, I have OCD. And when it comes to this system it is GOING to be the best ANYONE in the hood hears!
I need to take a pic of the grills but I think they are totally not needed and they do hinder sound.
OH man the highs the Klipsch have is AMAZING the 400w Sub is more than enough for my 25'x 30' room just blasts you right out! BANG , BANG , BANG!
I agree the Klipsch have a very aggressive tweeter I think this is what makes the Klipsch so Clean ,clear and Crisp. Some thing no other speaker can offer.
I can actually hear the difference when the cover is on, I can tell when a speaker has a cover and when it is not blind folded. (I have done it as an experiment).
I wished you could hear it.
Haha, when I actually got to sit down with those RP-92's I definitely got the appeal. When I first got them set up, I put on this song and cranked it.
And fuck man, the guitars and drums were so alive and full of energy that it felt like being up close at an arena. I first heard that song 20 years ago and I don't think I ever heard it like that. There's something really special about their horn-loaded tweeters. Really foreward-sounding, but also super-lively. The total opposite of dull. They wanna reach out and grab you by the ears. I'm a believer. They are the best for loud, aggressive music. Always comes back to those horns, which are super-loud and efficient. You could plug em into a Fischer-Price amp and they'd probably still be loud.
Thank you for clear my though about this up.
I knew that the engineers would design they speakers for show as well as sound not to cover them.
Mmm, from a design standpoint, using a grille to get the sound you want would be something like trying to paint by splashing paint on the wall and cleaning it off of everything else. If it doesn't sound right, it doesn't need a cover to 'fix' it, the original issue is with the speaker design. It sounds really silly when you put it plainly.
"Bob, this speaker sounds bad - the treble is like an ice pick shower... should I go back and cut some new baffle designs? Or maybe different drivers? Different capacitors in the crossover - or maybe we need to rethink the whole circuit? What should we do?"
"Jim. Listen, fuck that." *Tosses blanket over speaker.*
"Oh, gee, Bob, that really does sound less terrible! And it's just so easy. Ship it!"
Point is, there's no need for a grille to fix those sorts of problems. You can tune it via the crossover, or play around with baffle layouts... mess around with the size/shape/damping of the enclosure. Just so many things that are more favorable for any competent designer. And doing it that way doesn't cause the side-effects a grille does. Occam's razor. You're adding another thing to fix something that only requires changing something that's already there. And the thing you're adding causes more problems. A grille is the "The treble is bad and we're out of time." or the "I have tried everything." fix. Some exotic stuff makes creative use of covers, but otherwise it's just a nah. They're meant to be as out of the way as possible and that's about it. Most times, anyway.
The fact is the cover is nothing more than a "Soft layer of protection" and can take away from high sounds. I like to hear things like a "Bell" in a song I never heard before, It makes me go "WOW" I hears so much now going from cheep made crap to top notch makes a huge difference.
Not to knock any one or take away from there quality but Sony speakers just can NOT cut it.
It's interesting you mention that. That's probably the biggest difference. Take the hit on a ride cymbal. Chances are there's a mic closer to it that's picking up the attack right when it's struck - that loud "ting" sound. And then far above are at least a couple of overheads, meant to pick up the decay following the hit... that lingering, ringing "echo" that trails off. Usually some reverb on top for emphasis. When you have quick phase cancellation happening like that, transients get fucky. The attack is much higher in amplitude than the decay, so when it bounces off, it "eats" the decaying sound that comes after, which IME results in sort of a phantom attack. It gets smeared into the decay, and doesn't stand out like it should. Meanwhile, the actual decay gets chopped and you lose that sense of forward-back depth. It makes those quicker sounds flatter and weaker. No amount of EQ or DSP can really bring that back.