Quoted from Munsters:Yes got an silver pair to, not installed yet. Do you also have an transparant circle round line in it? Curious how it looks with speaker light kit..
The surrounds I sell are made to be backlit. You can use them if not backlit, but being a seller of speaker lights (hence the website name...SpeakerLightKits.com) they are all made to allow light to shine through them when using a light kit.
The "transparent circle" you see is etching in the mirror material to allow light to shine though it. I left a very thin unetched rim around the inner part of the ring. I did a sample without that thin inner ring and it just looked better (when backlit) with that unetched ring there. I also tried some with the unetched area on the rim and also around the outer visible part of the ring. That looked a bit off as the etched area was then just a thin ring in the middle of the visible area that would allow the light to shine through.
I started stocking my bronze surrounds just for Mando, as I expected some LE owners might want to keep the black ring look, but also have the light kit more visible by using a surround that the light kit could shine through.
Here is a video I just shot of what a factory Mando LE surround should look like (on the left) vs one of my bronze surrounds (on the right). As you can see, allowing the light to shine through the surround ring gives the light kit much more visibility. You can still see the light kit reflecting off of the light silver cone on the left one, but it is not nearly as visible as the right side. If you are using 5.25" speakers with a darker cone material, you would see even less of the light kit effect on the left side with the surrounds that do not allow light to shine through them.
Another note....I have not actually tested a factory Mando LE surround myself, but I have been told they were black and did not allow light to shine through them. So I assume they are the same as the black material that I have (and used in the video on the left), that does not allow light to shine through it. So if you want a surround that looks black when not back lit, but DOES allow light to shine through it when it is back lit.....I have the bronze surrounds available.
Doug (SpeakerLightKits.com)