valid points but not really 
• speaker grill is supposed to be repetitive, right?
• some pretty good extensions out there for mapping/controlling (like ThruPaint)…
• use a transparent texture…
and hey, i’m not saying this is the best way (though it’s certainly the easiest… the longest part about doing this was finding the texture… and that only took about a minute)… it’s just way better than ‘bending an object over a surface’… if you want it to be real geometry, you’re going to have to model it… some plugins will help along the way but there’s no easy way out…