"As far as marketing goes, being able to announce (as Grado can) that your headphones are "hand-assembled in Brooklyn, USA" is not to be sniffed at. In terms of the user's experience of a pair of the new Grado Signature S750 hard-wired open-backed over-ear headphones, though, being hand assembled turns out to be something of a double-edged sword. Like the little girl in the Longfellow poem, when the Signature S750 are good they are very good indeed, but when they are bad they are horrid."
"All that's very good indeed about these new Grado headphones concerns the way they sound. The company has developed a new driver for this model, a 50-mm dynamic design that uses a paper and carbon fiber composite diaphragm in front of a lightweight copper-plated aluminum voice coil. It claims these drivers are good for a frequency response of 6 Hz to 46 kHz, which is a massive tonal range for any headphones."
Grado Signature S750 headphones produce beautifully poised, natural, and informative sound with effortless dynamics, an expansive focused soundstage, and excellent tonal balance. The model uses a new 50-mm dynamic driver with a paper and carbon-fiber composite diaphragm and a lightweight copper-plated aluminum voice coil, claimed to span 6 Hz to 46 kHz. The new "B" ear cushions have a flatter surface to distribute clamping pressure, position the diaphragm closer to the ear, and use a smaller interior opening. Fit and comfort issues include heat-retaining ear cushions, an unpleasant clamp for some listeners, lack of a balanced cable option, and a perceived low value relative to the $1,650 price.
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