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post #46 of 99
5/27/08 at 2:16pm
325i is just PS-1 in disguise.
post #47 of 99
5/27/08 at 2:59pm
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Originally Posted by Solan View Post
325i is just PS-1 in disguise.
Many hope and pray this is true, sadly it isn't. Well sad for those that have 325i's and desperately want a PS-1
post #48 of 99
5/27/08 at 3:30pm
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Originally Posted by Solan View Post
325i is just PS-1 in disguise.
That's one hell of a bad sounding disguise

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Originally Posted by derekbmn
I have a gut feeling that there are less than 4 different drivers and would not be surprised if there are only 2.
I think your gut is probably seriously mistaken, having heard most of the grados.
post #49 of 99
5/27/08 at 4:00pm
Still can't believe how people (even audiophiles, maybe especially them) can call a headphone like the 325i bad sounding. And having heard most of the grado's doesn't say a thing about how many drivers there are, just think of the previous mentioned Ultrasone example.
post #50 of 99
5/27/08 at 4:17pm
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Originally Posted by QQQ View Post
Hmm, it can be easily investigated. Just gotta have all Grado headphones and loads of spare time.
can it?

Go ahead delve into this and get back to us on this. Not sure how you or anyone shall know this for sure, what with the tolerances and analysis involved. Why does it matter such, seems like a trade secret more than anything.
post #51 of 99
5/27/08 at 4:35pm
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Originally Posted by derekbmn View Post
I have a gut feeling that there are less than 4 different drivers and would not be surprised if there are only 2.
I've personally seen 3 pairs of Grado's, so there is at least 6.
post #52 of 99
5/27/08 at 4:36pm
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Originally Posted by Solan View Post
325i is just PS-1 in disguise.
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Originally Posted by vvanrij View Post
Still can't believe how people (even audiophiles, maybe especially them) can call a headphone like the 325i bad sounding. And having heard most of the grado's doesn't say a thing about how many drivers there are, just think of the previous mentioned Ultrasone example.

Why? 325is sound like having a nail jabbed in your ear. And ultrasones all share the same "this doesn't sound right" tonal quality.
post #53 of 99
5/27/08 at 4:39pm
With all headphones, I guess how good they sound depends on your ears, how loud you play, and on the music you play as well. Don't know if Ultrasones and 325is sound the same ... interesting thought, though.
post #54 of 99
5/27/08 at 5:09pm
I know the 325 had piercing highs and was considered unbareable, but I listen to my 325i hours after hours without a single annoyance of any high, and this was already with my Zero SS amp, so its not the tubes taming it. I can't stand sibilance or annoying highs so its not my ears, maybe I got a defective pair of 325i's, or maybe your just wrong
post #55 of 99
5/27/08 at 6:32pm
You're welcome to like 325s. Any dollar you're spending on them is money that's not being spent on something I'm trying to get . Same goes for utrasones. And I wasn't suggesting the 325s sounded like ultrasones. The 325is get tone right, they just have awful abrassive high end. The ultrasones just nail "this doesn't sound right"
post #56 of 99
5/27/08 at 6:48pm
Have you ever heard the 325i's? As you keep interchanging the 325 and 325i's..
post #57 of 99
5/27/08 at 7:06pm
Yes, yes. I generally mean 325is, because that's what we'd be talking about in a discussion of things that are currently being made...
post #58 of 99
5/27/08 at 7:54pm
They may not be exactly the same, i.e. SR80 stamped on SR125s, but I bet, like most manufacturers, they are alike.

Where do you think a 'house-sound' comes from?
Also I'd bet drivers of SR60s are not built far from GS1000s...same tooling/machinery/engineers.



edit - I know noobs do SR60s, while veterans build GS1000s.
post #59 of 99
5/27/08 at 8:30pm
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Originally Posted by QQQ View Post
1. IGrado, SR-60, Sr-80.
2. SR-125, SR-225.
3. SR-325, RS-2, RS-1.
4. GS-1000.
And sonic differences between models with same drivers are due to enclosure differences and pads.
Is this true??
-60 and 80, same
-125, 225 and RS-2, same
-325i
-RS-1
-GS1000

That would be five.
post #60 of 99
5/27/08 at 8:32pm
why would you say the rs2 has the same drivers as 225 and 125?
what about the allessandros?
igrado?
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