[nutrifa]

saw the thread had grown 2 pages in a day was like :-O, then read the posts and was like :-/

 

[Kevin Brown]

^^^
 
I agree.  All more stupid arguments about build quality.  I want to hear more comparisons between the PS500's and HF2's, RS2i's, MS2i's, etc.  Grado's aren't perfect.  I don't care.  Can we actually talk about something that matters ... like sound quality?
 

 

[DigitalFreak]

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^^^
 
I agree.  All more stupid arguments about build quality.  I want to hear more comparisons between the PS500's and HF2's, RS2i's, MS2i's, etc.  Grado's aren't perfect.  I don't care.  Can we actually talk about something that matters ... like sound quality?
 

I'm still trying to figure out how we went from discussing the PS500 to slamming build quality on the PS1000. Let's hope the thread doesn't become further derailed

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[TheMiddleSky]

Have met PS500 last night, my first impression for build is, wha, it's a unique material, it's kind of metal and plastic blend together, the weight is so similiar to HF2 though. PS500's letter wrote with embos style, so we don't need to worry the words got erased like at HP1000
 
Compare directly to HF2, I feel HF2 has better build, the embos on PS500 is a bit rough, and HF2's housing looks more solid.
 
Soundwise (via Burson and WA5), for you who have ever tried HF2, I would say the PS500 is the slightly v-shape of HF2. So PS500 has bigger bass (the biggest bass I ever tried in Grados current line up, never heard PS1000 though), less lower midrange (sometimes I feel HF2's lower mid is too thick, kinda muffled), and more presence treble than HF2. But keep in mind the different is not night and day, it's still like HF2, but with slightly different "style", and oh yeah I also feel the vocal is slightly backward on PS500.

 

[Lan647]

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Have met PS500 last night, my first impression for build is, wha, it's a unique material, it's kind of metal and plastic blend together, the weight is so similiar to HF2 though. PS500's letter wrote with embos style, so we don't need to worry to erase the words like at HP1000
 
Compare directly to HF2, I feel HF2 has better build, the embos on PS500 is a bit rough, and HF2's housing looks more solid.
 
Soundwise (via Burson and WA5), for you who have ever tried HF2, I would say the PS500 is the slightly v-shape of HF2. So PS500 has bigger bass (the biggest bass I ever tried in Grados current line up, never heard PS1000 though), less lower midrange (sometimes I feel HF2's lower mid is too thick, kinda muffled), and more presence treble than HF2. But keep in mind the different is not night and day, it's still like HF2, but with slightly different "style", and oh yeah I also feel the vocal is slightly backward on PS500.

Don't forget punch! These little babies kick like a horse 

 

[the chemist]

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Have met PS500 last night, my first impression for build is, wha, it's a unique material, it's kind of metal and plastic blend together, the weight is so similiar to HF2 though. PS500's letter wrote with embos style, so we don't need to worry to erase the words like at HP1000
 
Compare directly to HF2, I feel HF2 has better build, the embos on PS500 is a bit rough, and HF2's housing looks more solid.
 
Soundwise (via Burson and WA5), for you who have ever tried HF2, I would say the PS500 is the slightly v-shape of HF2. So PS500 has bigger bass (the biggest bass I ever tried in Grados current line up, never heard PS1000 though), less lower midrange (sometimes I feel HF2's lower mid is too thick, kinda muffled), and more presence treble than HF2. But keep in mind the different is not night and day, it's still like HF2, but with slightly different "style", and oh yeah I also feel the vocal is slightly backward on PS500.

This seems to be what I have been hearing from most reviewers with the addition that the PS500 is a bit more in your face than the reference series due to the spacing. I have not heard the vocals being backwards, can you elaborate?

 

[Kevin Brown]

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Have met PS500 last night, my first impression for build is, wha, it's a unique material, it's kind of metal and plastic blend together, the weight is so similiar to HF2 though. PS500's letter wrote with embos style, so we don't need to worry to erase the words like at HP1000
 
Compare directly to HF2, I feel HF2 has better build, the embos on PS500 is a bit rough, and HF2's housing looks more solid.
 
Soundwise (via Burson and WA5), for you who have ever tried HF2, I would say the PS500 is the slightly v-shape of HF2. So PS500 has bigger bass (the biggest bass I ever tried in Grados current line up, never heard PS1000 though), less lower midrange (sometimes I feel HF2's lower mid is too thick, kinda muffled), and more presence treble than HF2. But keep in mind the different is not night and day, it's still like HF2, but with slightly different "style", and oh yeah I also feel the vocal is slightly backward on PS500.

Maybe you mentioned it and maybe I missed it, but how many hrs do you have on your PS500s?  For example, I thought out-of-the-box, that my HF2's had horrendously overblown bass, but they settled down nicely after about 20 hrs or so.  But they actually have continued to change over hundreds of hours too.  In my case, my HF2's don't sound a heckuva lot different than the RS2i's I have.  They are different, but you can immediately tell that they are both Grado's too, if that makes sense. 

 

 

[JPizzzle]

Anyone know where to buy a case for these in the US- I saw this one but it's uk based
http://www.hifiheadphones.co.uk/grado-headphone-carry-case-prodid-532.html
 
thanks
 
JP

 

[Grado77]

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[LCfiner]

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Anyone know where to buy a case for these in the US- I saw this one but it's uk based
http://www.hifiheadphones.co.uk/grado-headphone-carry-case-prodid-532.html
 
thanks
 
JP

you can occasionally find these on eBay but the branding is slightly different on the front. the insides are the same molding. I have one and it works real well. costs 20 bucks.
 
note that there’s a larger size (on ebay now they’re dubbed ‘medium sized’ and are alessandro branded) that are big enough for GS1000 and G Cush pads.

 

[MacedonianHero]

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Have met PS500 last night, my first impression for build is, wha, it's a unique material, it's kind of metal and plastic blend together, the weight is so similiar to HF2 though. PS500's letter wrote with embos style, so we don't need to worry to erase the words like at HP1000
 
Compare directly to HF2, I feel HF2 has better build, the embos on PS500 is a bit rough, and HF2's housing looks more solid.
 
Soundwise (via Burson and WA5), for you who have ever tried HF2, I would say the PS500 is the slightly v-shape of HF2. So PS500 has bigger bass (the biggest bass I ever tried in Grados current line up, never heard PS1000 though), less lower midrange (sometimes I feel HF2's lower mid is too thick, kinda muffled), and more presence treble than HF2. But keep in mind the different is not night and day, it's still like HF2, but with slightly different "style", and oh yeah I also feel the vocal is slightly backward on PS500.

Cool...thanks for this. Based on your comments, I would definitely prefer the HF-2s as I don't want anymore bass/treble....or any less mids for that matter.
 

 

[JPizzzle]

lol funny, thanks for the ebay tip!
 
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I haven't found one for PS500 yet................
 

 

 

[TheMiddleSky]

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This seems to be what I have been hearing from most reviewers with the addition that the PS500 is a bit more in your face than the reference series due to the spacing. I have not heard the vocals being backwards, can you elaborate?

Perhaps due the less prominent lower midrange, made male voice slightly more distant
 
 
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Maybe you mentioned it and maybe I missed it, but how many hrs do you have on your PS500s?  For example, I thought out-of-the-box, that my HF2's had horrendously overblown bass, but they settled down nicely after about 20 hrs or so.  But they actually have continued to change over hundreds of hours too.  In my case, my HF2's don't sound a heckuva lot different than the RS2i's I have.  They are different, but you can immediately tell that they are both Grado's too, if that makes sense. 

 

Umm, I'm not sure about how long it has burned in, it's my friend who has it, but yesterday I spent around 4 hours with it
 
I don't think it's only on your case, but in most of Grado's case instead, they are different, but only little bit and people will easily know both HF2 and PS500 are Grado. I think PS500 is like the "tweaked version" of HF2.
 

 

[TwoTrack]

LOL!
 
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I haven't found one for PS500 yet................
 

 

 

[Grado77]

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