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Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model

posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 24 2018, @01:42AM   
from the what,-no-special-digital-wire? dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Anyone who's ever heard the Grado name is probably also familiar with the old-school way this headphones manufacturer does business. The majority of Grado models are still made by hand at the company's original home in Brooklyn, New York, and very little has changed about the materials, design, or sound of its products over the decades. That's why it's quite a momentous thing to learn that Grado is developing a wireless model, which is set to be released this year.

[...] The specs, release date, and even name of this new wireless Grado model are yet to be finalized, but it's something definitely on the schedule for 2018. One final note of import is that these wireless headphones will remain open-back, as has been the Grado tradition. When I asked Jonathan Grado whether the company would build a closed-back pair — which would be more suitable for using outdoors because of its sound isolation between your music and the outside world — he (half-)jokingly replied, "Let's see where we are in another 65 years."

Source: TheVerge

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• phone cartridges phone cartridges (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @02:09AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @02:09AM (#626908)

  We always bought Grado cartridges for our turntables -- reasonably priced and great performance. Some models claimed to have frequency response out to 40 KHz, for use in playing 4-channel records that were available for a short time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadraphonic_sound#Discrete_vinyl_formats [wikipedia.org]

  I'd forgotten almost completely about Grado, had no idea they also did headphones...

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• s/phone/phono (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @02:11AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @02:11AM (#626910)

  submitted a moment too soon...

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