In the current Wired Magazine is following article
"Inside the Magical Room Where the Best Headphones in the World Are Made"
Looking at the speaker, made of multiple headphone drivers, does this suggest something a diy' er could accomplish?
"Inside the Magical Room Where the Best Headphones in the World Are Made"
Looking at the speaker, made of multiple headphone drivers, does this suggest something a diy' er could accomplish?
Hi,
Grado don't make the best headphones, and are prone
to self aggrendising BS about nearly all their products.
What is especially galling is such a set up has absolutely
nothing to do with good headphones in any real sense.
Utter marketing BS, which John Grado is very adept at.
Joe Grado was old school, his progeny much more cynical.
Joe was a watchmaker, with a high attention to detail.
John is an expert on exploiting/marketing the legacy.
rgds, sreten.
I've expounded elsewhere on Grado's marketing.
Grado don't make the best headphones, and are prone
to self aggrendising BS about nearly all their products.
What is especially galling is such a set up has absolutely
nothing to do with good headphones in any real sense.
Utter marketing BS, which John Grado is very adept at.
Joe Grado was old school, his progeny much more cynical.
Joe was a watchmaker, with a high attention to detail.
John is an expert on exploiting/marketing the legacy.
rgds, sreten.
I've expounded elsewhere on Grado's marketing.
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It's called marketing. What do you want them to say? " Oh, we make pretty decent sounding mediocre stuff for not insignificant money here in the USA" I can just see people flocking to buy their stuff. Sizzle and hyperbole sells, in a world with Beats and Skull Candy what do you really expect them to do? Roll over and die?
Sreten, have you actually listened to any of their better headphones lately? I have and found them reasonably good compared to the comparably priced competition from Sennheiser, Sony and Koss. (This at Son et Image in Montreal late last winter.) My threshold of acceptability was the SR325e and I really liked the RS2e which in the areas important to me (resolution) trounced everything I listened to.. I also liked the Sony MDR 1R quite a lot - enough to decide to purchase a Sony HAP-Z1ES based what I heard. (The HAP was the source for the headphone amp driving the MDR 1R which IIRC was the OPPO..)
I did not find any of them compelling enough to buy in the range I can comfortably justify, and the Stax were way out of reach.. 😀
Sreten, have you actually listened to any of their better headphones lately? I have and found them reasonably good compared to the comparably priced competition from Sennheiser, Sony and Koss. (This at Son et Image in Montreal late last winter.) My threshold of acceptability was the SR325e and I really liked the RS2e which in the areas important to me (resolution) trounced everything I listened to.. I also liked the Sony MDR 1R quite a lot - enough to decide to purchase a Sony HAP-Z1ES based what I heard. (The HAP was the source for the headphone amp driving the MDR 1R which IIRC was the OPPO..)
I did not find any of them compelling enough to buy in the range I can comfortably justify, and the Stax were way out of reach.. 😀
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