Mine and others who were complaining had a brown paper with an adhesive back...alien glue was used to keep it on...I imagine most of the scratches came from me using a fingernail (and I don't have much) to remove the glue backed paper...sounds like the cured the problem...still sounds great though.
Bill
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Outlaw 1070***3 Klipsch Heresys Across the Front W/Crites CT-125 Tweeters***Klipsch KSP-S6***Oppo BDP-83***Outlaw LFM-1 Plus***
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