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Quick thread (done, thank you): Grado pink transition driver judge expert required.

post #1 of 7
1/31/12 at 3:55pm
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I'm about to pull the trigger on these:

 

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Here's what the owner had to say about them:

 

"A note on the SR200: they have one pink mesh and the other is a white mesh because one of the pink mesh came off so they were sent to John Grado to have replaced."

 

To me they it sure looks like the left hand side mesh (on the picture ^above^) was replaced, as it barely fits the diameter and looks very unused compared to the right hand one, but! this mesh barely looks pink! Grrr

 

Could it be only the lights? I asked the seller to produce pictures for me so he did it on the fly (I guess). He is deliberately selling these as "Grado Labs SR-200 with pink transition drivers". Will it turn pinker (the one shown on the right in the picture) with time or more clearly, is it safe to say that these are indeed pink drivers?

 
I don't care if the other one is a "pink driver" buried under a white mesh, it will sound the same, so I am paying the full price for it but I just want to make sure!! Thanks!!

Edited by devouringone3 - 2/4/12 at 4:58pm
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post #2 of 7
1/31/12 at 4:09pm

Just make sure they didn't actually replace the whole driver.  John Grado doesn't agree with head-fi about the superiority of his older models, or even the Joe Grado drivers.  As long as it's clear that it's just the screen that was replaced (sounds like you can tell visually that it was replaced), I wouldn't worry about it. 

 

how do they sound?

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post #3 of 7
1/31/12 at 4:25pm
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Originally Posted by rhythmdevils View Post

Just make sure they didn't actually replace the whole driver.  John Grado doesn't agree with head-fi about the superiority of his older models, or even the Joe Grado drivers.  As long as it's clear that it's just the screen that was replaced (sounds like you can tell visually that it was replaced), I wouldn't worry about it. 

 

how do they sound?


 

The seller doesn't seem to know very much how they sound, when I asked him to talk to me about the sound of his white mesh black SR325 vs. his already sold (damn!) pink mesh black SR325, he told me he wasn't very good at differentiating subtleties in sound between headphones. And that is only at the time that he remembered he also had a SR200 that had pink transition drivers, for me to buy, and he showed it to me but I didn't ask about the sound.

 

I will ask him if he is sure Grado didn't replace the whole driver.

 

I'm also buying that white mesh black SR325. I had a fairly good price I think... they are not leaving Canada yet ;).

 

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Dang this is the first time I make a thread, really I thought it was an emergency requiring actions, and the replying crowd is lesser than what I would have expected.


Edited by devouringone3 - 1/31/12 at 4:38pm
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post #4 of 7
1/31/12 at 4:27pm

Yeah as long as you're sure of that you should be fine.  People have long speculated that the pink is from the mesh aging and doesn't have much to do with the driver.  Unless it's the kind of mesh they used with the transitional driver that ages pink...  Either way though.

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post #5 of 7
1/31/12 at 4:52pm
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Originally Posted by rhythmdevils View Post

Yeah as long as you're sure of that you should be fine.  People have long speculated that the pink is from the mesh aging and doesn't have much to do with the driver.  Unless it's the kind of mesh they used with the transitional driver that ages pink...  Either way though.


 

There really is such a "transitional" driver? That is different from the others and that was "made" during the Joseph --> John Grado transition?

 

Were there ever pink colored (white turned to pinkish tone) drivers to look at? Looking through the black mesh of a (say) John Grado RS1?

 

I believed only pink was a batch of different quality meshes used in the beginning, indicator of the very first John Grado headphones that came into existence. And that even under this turned pink mesh resided white drivers, and that all Grado drivers always were and will always be, transparentish/translucentish looking milky white.


Edited by devouringone3 - 1/31/12 at 5:06pm
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post #6 of 7
1/31/12 at 5:01pm
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Okay I got a reply from the seller:

 

 

"Hey, yes the repair was only to replace the mesh and not the driver, and yes these are still the transitional drivers.
 
Thanks!"
 
 
And I can trust that! Good bye/buy money :(, welcome headphones :D.
 
 
 
Topic closed, conversation gladly continued at will :)

Edited by devouringone3 - 1/31/12 at 5:45pm
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post #7 of 7
1/31/12 at 6:09pm
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Originally Posted by rhythmdevils View Post

how do they sound?



Pure Grado: warm harmonic color, full bodied vocals, excellent dynamics and an ultra smooth top end.

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