liamstrain
Member of the Trade: The Audio Guild
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Thanks for everything, Joe. Rest in peace.
As a kid at a hi-fi store, I was selling Grado cartridges before they made headphones. Later, the Grado SR80 was one of my first good headphones, and helped turn me into the headphone enthusiast I've become. Without Grado, there may never have been Head-Fi. Thank you, and rest in peace, Mr. Grado.
I didn't know Mr. Grado. I'd never had the good fortune to meet him during his lifetime. I'm the one who wrote the piece on the homepage with a link to Grado Labs' blog entry about Mr. Grado, with words from his family.
Again, I'd never met Mr. Grado, and didn't know him. I do know John. Even back when I was a kid working in the hi-fi store, I think it was John who'd answer our calls from our store much of the time--I always hoped I'd catch him on the phone, but never had the luck to speak with Joseph.
Back when Head-Fi was losing money, John Grado and Todd Green (of TTVJ Audio) came up with the idea of two unique Grado Head-Fi Commemorative headphone models to support Head-Fi--the Grado Head-Fi 1 (HF-1) and Grado Head-Fi 2 (HF-2). While these were John Grado limited edition models, there's no doubt their lineage traced back to Joseph Grado's first headphone models.
Joseph Grado made many contributions to audio and music, many of which predate most of us, but that many of which we still benefit from (and use) today.
As I said on the homepage:
Right now, my thoughts are with John and the rest of Joseph Grado's family.