Tekton custom grills

@cliffkhz 

Not strange at all. This is very common. I have read about this issue on other forums as long as 4 years ago. Very frequent, very present issue.

Ordered Impact Monitors around Thanksgiving.  They were up front about the likely delayed delivery of grills (and I'd read about some complaints, here).  So, I didn't bug the Tekton folks.  Received the grills about a week or so ago.  They were well-packed and arrived ok.  As the speakers did, they still smelled like fresh paint.

Someone on another thread mentioned the awkward fit/appearance of the squared grills over the rounded edges and corners of the boxes.  I concur, but not really a big deal on these, all things considered.

I also concur that these sound better without the grills attached.  The difference isn't huge and doesn't render them unlistenable, but more noticeable than grills/no-grills on some other speakers.

Wow, that grill situation is awful! (I much prefer speaker grills on speakers that I buy).

I’ve never had the type of service problems I see here with any other speaker company I’ve dealt with (and that’s a lot!).

The perils of expanding too quickly is apparently killing your customer service; not a great trade-off IMO.

I think that this thread is 3 years old and the issue still persists is a real statement to the miserable management and questionable cash flow of the operation. Why don't the speakers just come with grills? This seems like buying a dirt cheap sub-compact car where they're charging you for commonly standard equipment like wheel covers and a radio. 

I have to agree with Kosst on this. It is inexcusable to have this kind of an issue on something so simple. Why in the world would the grills not ship with the speakers if they were ordered that way? If he has to hire out grill building to keep up with production, then that is what needs to happen. What happens if you have a real issue with the speaker? I went down this road with a different custom speaker builder. As good as the speakers sounded, I could never get past what happened during the build and delivery process.