
Grado SR80x
Everyone agrees it's fast, forward and alive. Almost everything else — treble, bass, stage, pads, cable — is argued over.
2 reviews
Hand-built open-back headphones
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Grado Labs is a family-owned audio company that has hand-built headphones and phono cartridges in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York since 1953. Founded by Joseph Grado and now run by third- and fourth-generation family members, it is best known for its retro, open-back Prestige-series headphones and the energetic, forward 'Grado sound.'

Everyone agrees it's fast, forward and alive. Almost everything else — treble, bass, stage, pads, cable — is argued over.

The metal-cupped Grado that tamed the house sound — and split the room over whether it tamed too much, and still hurts.
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