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Whatever I fit I'll have to add dampening within the mounting to ensure that they don't vibrate or buzz.
Most speakers I've seen have perforated sheets... not sure I've ever seen wire used for this. But my reasoning was that even for a similar coverage (% open) a squared-off perforated sheet would surely come off worse than the natural rounded-ness of wires.
Haven't seen anything really assessing such things, but it feels intuitive that the wires would win. I assume that the biggest reason perforated sheets are in use is because it's very cheap and the usual environment for metal grilles on speakers are things like nightclubs, car audio, beat boxes, etc where knocks are expected... also all markets where cheap factors highly.
So my hunch is still on the wires being better... but the problem there is fewer suppliers for precisely the material and spacing that I want, in such very low volumes (they're clearly used to making 100M rolls of this stuff).