![]() Yes, they leak sound as well but they also have a natural sound stage, though not as extended as the Grado’s. There are worth very penny! They are light weight, portable, and comfortable. I bought them for $41.00 from Amazon, just over the lower limit of my shopping range. Now I have settle on another pair legendary headphones the Koss PortaPro’s. Updated versions of these are still being sold by Koss today, I owned the first pair of Koss electrostatic headphones before I moved to Stax. My first set of headphones were the Koss ProA. Before that started in business the only headphones in use were made for the military. Koss invented the full frequency spectrum headphone. I bought another set of headphones by Koss because of the discount through Amazon. But I would take them over a pair of Beats any day. The bass is solid and well defined, but it is not extended enough to satisfy organ lovers. My only real complaint with the Grado’s is their low end. One would have to spend significantly more money for an improved top end. However, it is quite listenable for the most part. The Grado is simply a little hot at the extreme top. At the limits of the human voice range, however, the response begins to tick up. But in the case of the SR 80e’s, they help explain a few things. I like this sound, but over an extended period of listening I am afraid that listener fatigue might set in. Graphs of frequency response do not always tell the tale. A hint of sibilance is apparent on some recordings. That is why we bought expensive damped tonearms at the time. Some said the Mk V had a ringing problem in upper frequencies. It did not provide the best tracking of the grove, but it extracted a sound that made almost everything else seem lifeless. The Grado’s also have a sound that is lively. Female voices are very convincing because the Grado’s have very little coloration. The there is the legendary Grado midrange. Sound does leak out from the phones but the musical stage is so much more realistic. Grado does a good job of getting around this problem by making their phones open backed. Stax does not and neither does Grado.Ī second problem for headphones is that the sound can seem to be contained in between one’s ears. Thus, many headphone makers boost the bass response to compensate. We hear low bass not only with our ears but also with our gut. But the Stax suffer, as do any other set of headphones, a lack of true bass response. They are electrostatic phones with incredibly low distortion and a silky smooth response. The Stax phonesare still probable the most revealing set of headphones one can buy. I have owned expensive headphones, including ones made by Stax of Japan. I bought a pair of Grado SR 80e’s for $99, just under budget. Thought I should check what all the fuss was about. Word of mouth is enough to keep this company in business. Today, they are also making and selling headphones in Brookline. His family is still selling these cartridges in Brookline. He built them by hand in Brookline, NY and sold them at reasonable prices. Joe Grade was a matchmaker who invented the moving coil phono cartridge, but he made his reputation building moving magnet cartridges. I chose a pair of Grado Headphones as my first buy because of their reputation. They need our support.įor my cybershopping experiment I set a price between $40 and $100. ![]() If you are spending big money, by all means buy from a reputable audio retailers. Yet, what good is buying online when you cannot hear what you are buying? If you are spending a relatively small amount of money it may be worth the risk. So I have been looking for bargains in audio products – affordable bargains. If I am being asked to spend that kind of money it would have to be someone like David Berning. Today, nearly everything is outrageously priced and very few products standout as significantly better sounding than others. Considering the life expectancy of these components and their resale value, they were often good investments. Their stuff was expensive, but their components were so much better than anything else available. How I miss the early days of Saul Marantz and William Z.Johnson. There is so much more to the enjoyment of beautiful music in the home than how much money one might have spent. However, this blog is for those people who do not want to spend an arm and a leg for such components. Yes, choosing the right audio components will make a remarkable improvement in the sound of your playback system. It should be no secret that AUDIOGRAM II is not just about cutting edge.
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