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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
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @02:20AM (2 children)
Bluetooth sounds terrible, Grado or otherwise. It's like selling a string and two paper cups for $300.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @02:40AM
You need to get Monster bluetooth for your speakers! It has much thicker air between the receiver and the speaker, or between the tranmitter and the receiver (speakers). And besides, it has ion neutralized pathways, prayed over by and Audiophilic Druid, for nearly realistic sound. Yes, it costs $20 per foot, per channel. But if you are serious about your audio system, it is well worth it.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Wednesday January 24 2018, @02:53AM
I have the BT headphones from Voxoa. The BT link is only conditionally ok. It does not reach into the adjacent room, and even within range you have to orient yourself in a specific way to have a relatively clean cassette-tape quality. And don't move!
If someone thinks that it's the particular pair's problem: I have another pair of BT phones and mp3 players; one is a phone, another - a dedicated Panasonic flash player. They work with varying amount of artifacts, and often I just used an audio cable.