I hope that Naim learn what happened to Toyota with the accelerator pedal that was made in the USA. Imagine you are trying to decrease the volume but the volume goes louder. May cause accident with your neighbors.Peter says: My understanding is that Naim themselves are looking to source replacement grilles if they are good enough, from a company in the States
Hello
No sorry we are no further forward in our quest for SBL grills, the supplier we thought could do this supplied samples that were awful
Regards
Steven Hopkins
Customer Relations Manager
I think the American Co may be:
www.foamspeakergrilles.com
They made new IBL grilles for me about 3months ago, they look and sound superb.
Chris N
Sourcing of the foam is the easy bit. Who were those guys (Chinese I think) who were/are doing replacement grills for Sara's and Briks? Andrew bought some for his Sara's that he owned then, they were absolutely first class copies of the orignals in every way - including very neat recessing on the back to allow for driver excusion - 100% like the ones that Linn made. They could certainly do the Naim grills.
I am soon going to be selling some SBLs whose grills are in perfect nick. Perhaps I should market them as 'SBL foam grills' at some exhorbitant price for grills alone....and throw in the speakers themselves for nothing ;-)
Well in any case, the EU is financially quickly looking like it is only a matter of time, before it goes down the toilet of History as a once thought great dream' that failed. Even telling other countries: what and how they can go about, doing the simplest of tasks; making a bloody foam speaker grille!!! .Fancy having to kowtow to its zillions of mad Rules..This sounds more like it!
Which Andrew? AFAIK the reason for the problem getting the grilles is that there is some EC ruling or whatever about toxic fumes being given off when cutting the foam with hot wires.
Good ol' China. Bring on the Global Economy...!
Thanks Chris I will check them out. An alarm bell did ring when I read this on their web site though...
Note: Your speaker components should preferably be flush mounted as standard grilles we provide have no relief on the back to accommodate drivers. If they are not, we can provide grilles to accommodate non-flush mounted drivers or you may have to build frames for the grilles.
I guess your have no cut outs for the drivers then?
ATB, Bob