I had a hunch they where going to flat pad the X series , just had a feeling , oddly enough I mentioned it in conversation a few posts back.Interesting
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Heyyoudvd
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It’s interesting that this went up on the store before any press release went out.
Methinks someone hit a button too soon. This was probably an announcement planned for Monday but the store went ahead early.
Methinks someone hit a button too soon. This was probably an announcement planned for Monday but the store went ahead early.
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Ordered the 325x. Let's see what's going on! Stay tuned......
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Strangely, the 325x is the only one that kept the same price.
The 60x is $20 more while the other three are each $25 more than their predecessors.
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So the answer to the question "How does Grado follow up the Hemp?" is "By making all the other models just like The Hemp."
They will probably do well.
They will probably do well.
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I like how we were all positive that the Prestige line going "sold out" meant there was a new model incoming and reps were out here like NAH GUYS WE JUST HAD AN ISSUE WITH OUR SUPPLIER.
Where to buy these outside US?
Want 325X
Want 325X
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The big question with the x series is the RS1x (if they update it). The new prestige series (and the HEMP) has a 44mm driver. But...do they update the 50mm too? With an F-pad? Could be very intresting.
Finally excited to try my first pair of Grados! Been refreshing their website and checking classified ads for months trying to get one of their lower end models. I’m not sure how they’ll stack up against my other pairs, but I’m hoping they’ll be unique enough to hook me like they’ve done to so many others on here. 
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So what are the improvements you get as you move up the line? I’m looking at the 5 new Prestige headphones and from the blurbs, here’s what I’m seeing:
SR60x —> SR80x - You go from $99 to $125 and I don’t see any difference whatsoever listed for that $26 price gap.
SR80x —> SR125x - You go from $125 to $175 and you get the 8-conductor cable for that $50 price gap.
SR125x —> SR225x - You go from $175 to $225 and you get F cushions, the metal grating, and 0.05db driver matching for that $50 price gap.
SR225x —> SR325x - You go from $225 to $295 and you get the metal housing and the calf-skin leather headband for that $70 price gap.
Did I miss anything?
These ‘x’ series headphones all look like a nice upgrade over the ‘e’ series, but I still maintain that the Prestige series doesn’t need 5 headphones. I’m not sure why both the 60 and 80 need to exist and the 125 seems like a rather expensive upgrade for no difference besides the cable. I think this lineup should be cut down to 4, possibly even 3 headphones.
Funnily enough, the best deal of the whole bunch here seems to be the 325x, as it’s now only a $70 upgrade over the 225x, whereas the 325e was $95 more than the 225e.
SR60x —> SR80x - You go from $99 to $125 and I don’t see any difference whatsoever listed for that $26 price gap.
SR80x —> SR125x - You go from $125 to $175 and you get the 8-conductor cable for that $50 price gap.
SR125x —> SR225x - You go from $175 to $225 and you get F cushions, the metal grating, and 0.05db driver matching for that $50 price gap.
SR225x —> SR325x - You go from $225 to $295 and you get the metal housing and the calf-skin leather headband for that $70 price gap.
Did I miss anything?
These ‘x’ series headphones all look like a nice upgrade over the ‘e’ series, but I still maintain that the Prestige series doesn’t need 5 headphones. I’m not sure why both the 60 and 80 need to exist and the 125 seems like a rather expensive upgrade for no difference besides the cable. I think this lineup should be cut down to 4, possibly even 3 headphones.
Funnily enough, the best deal of the whole bunch here seems to be the 325x, as it’s now only a $70 upgrade over the 225x, whereas the 325e was $95 more than the 225e.
Perhaps there is little difference between the build cost for the 325e with its leather headband and the 325x and its “new calf-skin leather headband [which] features more padding” which looks not too different to me honestly from the pictures, whereas the rest of the line went from a cheap, thin vinyl headband to a thicker, plusher headband that looks like it might be even slighter thicker than on the GW100, which I happen to have.
Even the 60x has this thicker headband:
”Along with the speakers, the cables and headband have been redesigned for the SR60x. Now housed in a more durable braided sheathing, the 4-conductor cable features a super annealed copper wire for improved purity of the audio signal. The new headband features more padding for a more comfortable experience.”
Yeah, great points on all the differences, you nailed them, I noticed all the others but had missed that it literally appears there is nothing different at all now between the 60x and the 80x besides the badge on the earcups
.... well, I suspect the tuning might be different, perhaps?Are the drivers the same on all models?
I searched the page on the SR-80x (EDIT: on the store 4ourears) for the string “stressed” and could not find this anywhere … perhaps that is a distinctive but they don’t mention it anymore.
UPDATED: They do mention the de-stressed drivers on the gradolabs web page for the SR80x:
https://gradolabs.com/headphones/prestige-series/item/128-sr80x
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