How to fix the Grado 'grattle.'

Jun 18, 2010 at 6:28 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 4

cruizin caleb

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For those who don't know, the Grado 'grattle' occurs when a 'hair' gets caught in the right or left headphone chamber resulting in something that sounds like in one of the drivers, sometime made most prominent by bass activity.
 
Recently a 'grattle' appeared in the right driver/chamber of my Grado RS-1 headphones. I tried 'blowing' on it - not wanting to blow to hard and damage anything. It went away for 30 seconds or so and came back. Not wanting to pay $100 to have maintenance done, I emailed Grado and asked them how to fix this.
 
They told me:
 
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"[size=small]Blow air in the chamber using a can of compressed air. P[/size][size=small]oint it in the inner cup - the outer will have no effect."[/size]

 
This worked like a charm for me. For future reference, I thought I'd share this (though many of you probably already knew this solution.) Very thankful I didn't need to send in my RS-1's / nothing was wrong with them.
 
Jun 18, 2010 at 7:00 PM Post #2 of 4
Of course, if you're a damn longhaired hippie like myself, any grattle causing hairs can be easily seen and are too long to completely disappear past the driver cloth and can easily be plucked out.
 

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