An Interview With John Grado - Page 12

Street style Grados. I pray you dont make it in white.

It would be nice if they'll be gold/black or silver/black, like 325is.
I prefer Gold .....and black !

So, this means if we can organize a group buy for 200 phones, we can do pretty much the same as the German distributor and order a custom Grado?

If we get the same prize as the german distributor, count me in.

Who wants a custom Head-fi Edition Grado?

Cheers

anyone in on this? what a great idea! we want the headfi logo on that little plastic disc

A great and highly enjoyable read! Thanks a lot Zanth and thank you Mr. Grado for providing this excellent opportunity.

Wow, Zanth. Wow. Awesome interview. Couldn't have done it better myself. John answered every question I thought to ask.

BTW, is there any more material you plan on adding to the original body of the interview? If so, I'm looking patiently forward to it.

Also, to hear that John is Grado-Mod friendly is a very great thing, as is his take on tube amps, and how Grado doesn't need to make one at present since there are models that are adequate (I beg to differ, I wanna make a compact tube amp with separate power supply I could take most anywhere, and sound great for a first DIY amp). Also kind of sad to hear that the cloning of the RA1(I'd be pissed off too, especially if someone tried to 'clone' my novels) has kind of restricted his willingness to send out parts and such, since if I could afford it, I would so totally buy 78 or 92 SR60 drivers to make a 5.1 speaker system comprised of 16 driver arrays by five or six speakers.

But that doesn't matter, that's not even my dream system (mine is a Bose Westborough 121+121V+464 set plus sub for ultra exotic 6.1). What matters is that I thoroughly enjoyed everything that came out of that interview, and now I can only wonder who else out there could be considered for another one, and if it would live up to how this interview with the classy John Grado. George Cardas? The head at Sennheiser(don't know his name)? The head of Etymotic Research? (As gpalmer so jokingly suggested) Amar Bose? Or perhaps what's-his-name from Stax?

In any case, IMO, this thread should be a permanent sticky, if it isn't already up top to stay.

Good times!
- (or do a 32 RS1 driver array smiley!),
Abe

Count me in

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, please.

Um, yes please.

First thanks for taking the time and effort to write up a greatly informative post.

Though his rational for the pricing in Europe doesnt make sense from an economics point of view. However, I can appreciate that he has a business to run and thankfully i live in the US 1/2 of the year.

Again thanks for the read.

Cheers

That would be awesome! Count me in

Probably we have a minimum of $1K out of pocket for each custom can (assuming the germans had a biiiig profit margin selling them lol) - even if John were to do them at cost, do we have 200 people on head-fi willing to shell out $1k each? Imagine if we all gave that cash to Jude instead - $200k in donations!

Can someone explain to me what the Street-Style's are?

We are truly blessed on head-fi to have many individuals who have the skill and disposition to pull something like this off. Zanth....you are definitely one of those people. Thank you for the well-done write-up.

P.S.- I had a very short conversation with John Grado last year regarding headphone mods and his policy of all repairs being done in-house. Your write-up nails his explanation on this issue and I'm sure it does on the other talking points as well.