Doomlord_uk
Prominent Member
I have a pair of M&K MX5000s and am restoring them to their full glory They recently came back from a professional furniture restorer who did an epic job of restoring the oak burr veneer - they look amazing now, almost hard to believe they are real. Next - and final job - is to fit new grille cloth to the frames. One frame is entirely missing its cloth and the other has what I assume is the original cloth, but it's stained and a bit faded.
I'm thinking of contacting L-Sound(?) or maybe KK Sound directly for some new cloth so I can say its at least 'original' although since M&K doesn't exist it's not really 'original' is it?
My other two thoughts are to go for coloured grille cloth, something to match the oak veneer, as frankly black cloth looks rather dowdy. I really like the light buff colour used on classic Technics speakers so might go for something along those lines, or maybe some shade of brown or even a wine red. The other thought was to go for a printed pattern! What I might have printed though, I have no idea...
OTOH again, I will have to sell these one day and I guess whoever buys them would prefer an original finish........
So anyway, would it be easy to buy from KK again, or are there other suppliers of good quality grill cloth, and what sort should I be lookin for? I recently re-clothed a REL sub with REL cloth, but that struck me as rather coarse looking, so I want to buy some material befitting the quality of the subs' finish.
I'm thinking of contacting L-Sound(?) or maybe KK Sound directly for some new cloth so I can say its at least 'original' although since M&K doesn't exist it's not really 'original' is it?
My other two thoughts are to go for coloured grille cloth, something to match the oak veneer, as frankly black cloth looks rather dowdy. I really like the light buff colour used on classic Technics speakers so might go for something along those lines, or maybe some shade of brown or even a wine red. The other thought was to go for a printed pattern! What I might have printed though, I have no idea...
OTOH again, I will have to sell these one day and I guess whoever buys them would prefer an original finish........
So anyway, would it be easy to buy from KK again, or are there other suppliers of good quality grill cloth, and what sort should I be lookin for? I recently re-clothed a REL sub with REL cloth, but that struck me as rather coarse looking, so I want to buy some material befitting the quality of the subs' finish.