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Are the drivers in the Grado SR80 the same as the flagship Grado headphones?
My SR80s are the old model.
Regards.
My SR80s are the old model.
Regards.
Are the drivers in the Grado SR80 the same as the flagship Grado headphones?
My SR80s are the old model.
Regards.
This is the million dollar question.
Take your SR80 drivers, get them housed in some woodies and recabled. Instant high-end Grado.
Very best,
Oh god..give me a break. I don't think we're that dumb, but I get your point.
I sure wish an SR-80 could sound like even the 225i. Definitely doesn't use the same driver.
I do imagine many, many of their products use the same drivers. Maybe 225i and 325i? Any ideas? I was thinking maybe SR-80 and SR-125?
I would hate myself if I bought the RS2 and it had used the SR-225 driver. Knowing my luck it probably might. Of course you are paying for the wood etc.
I do wonder which models shared drivers, but I've never seen such a list and it'd probably annoy the heck out of Grado.
Sorry, I shouldn't post when I'm dead tired and hungry. Wasn't try to be rude there. I don't even know why I said that.
I had the SR-80 for years and I've almost owned it as much as my first HD-555. Never liked it much at all and spent many hours modding it, but did not upgrade to wooden cups. You could be right that upgrading to wood cups might make it sound like a more expensive model. I'll never know and I'm sure someone here will tell us if this is true! I think BilaVideo told me this once.
I got the SR-225 recently and was expecting it to be like a just a VERY slight upgrade from the SR-80. To me, it was worth the extra $100-$120 for sure. Biggest improvement was when it came to detail and sound clarity.
Now it would be interesting to see how close an SR-225 with wooden cups is to say an RS2. I bet it'd be a closer match.
If you google all the Grado drivers, many of them look a bit different. Could be just different holes on the back. Who knows.
I always guessed that many the SR-60 and SR-80 drivers are the same. Then maybe the 225i and 325i are as well. Too bad I don't own both.
For a few minutes I've been tempted to buy the RS2, but there's no way it could really sound like a $500 headphone. I don't know what a $500 headphone sounds like to begin with...I certainly have no problems paying extra for the wooden cups and upgrades.
Sure is one nice looking headphone.
I still don't think Grado actually makes their own drivers, but I won't go there..Not that I care or it matters! The DJ100 driver looked oddly similar to the one found in my SR-80. Many drivers do and this doesn't mean much.
What really hurts is looking at all those Grado frequency graphs. Just very minor differences between models when it comes to the graphs.
I'm 99.999% sure there are 2 types of drivers for the "i" series and the non"i" :
- Standard copper driver for iGrado , SR60 and (maybe) SR80!
- UHPLC copper driver for the rest!
I was wondering how Grado can recognize each model's driver since there are no marks on them (except "GRADO 32")...???