[carlo]

First 9 are for current owners only. Please select the time frame of ownership that fits best. Poll can have multiple selections, please select all that are applicable (except, obviously, the ones in regard to time).

Just feeding my curiosity.

 

[bozebuttons]

I fit In in multiple catorgories First set of hp2s bought new ,But sold them years back(still kicking myself for that one). Currently own hp1s about 6 months. also own hp3s over a year. Have 4 sets of flat pads 2 which are Nos
unused(spares) . Also have Nos hp1 drivers and Nos hp1 Signature cables with toggle switches and polarity buttons for spares,never know when you may need them.

 

[carlo]

I want to play at bozebutton's house.

Tom,

For the sake of this, I can add the things you were not able to add since you're your own Grado Factory

Which did you miss, just the flats? I'm just counting assembled, functional headphones, and max of one pair of pads for HP-1000 so it makes more sense to me.

Interesting that almost all the HP-1000s have flat pads. And so far 4/14 went back to Grados.

 

[Canman]

I messed up on my vote....add one more HP-2 owner, owned for 3-6 months. I already voted for the "owned one, sold it, bought another" I have Vwap pads but I just bought new flats from Joe.

 

[88Sound]

I messed up on my vote also. I voted that I have owned a HP-1000 for 6 months to a year (10-7-03 will be my 1 year anniversary) but not that I have the HP-2's. They are my favorite phones with the RKV/Impedancer Combo.

 

[ServinginEcuador]

Owned them for a couple of months, then sold them. Never looked back, but if I ever get back into dynamics these would be the cans of choice.

 

[smokey]

Owned a set of HP-1s for a couple of months. I never could get over the discomfort after a few hours of listening. Traded them, and now own the R-10s. Personally, I much prefer the Sonys but I can understand those folks that like the Grados, as in my experience the HP-1 is a more neutral phone than the Sony.

 

[carlo]

Canman, 88Sound, Wmcmanus

Thanks, got it. There's 22 votes for time frame for 21 headphones...

Thanks to all that participated. Interesting results: I thought flat pads were rare, and that there were more HP-2s than HP-1s on Head-Fi. Cool.

 

[nately]

Gah! All you guys who've had them < 3 months, where'd you find them?? I thought there'd have been a lot more HP-1000 owners on Head-fi (but of course probably not all of them stumbled across this thread). There's at least 20 people looking for HP-1000s.

 

[Zanth]

When one considers there were >1000 made...having less than a 100 pairs on head-fi is leaving the market open for possibilities, it also shows that we have about 8% of the current world stock

 

[yidimsum]

It is time to lay to rest the # of purported HP-1000s that were manufactured.

Joe told me 9000 pairs of HP-1000s two weeks ago.

Joe told Canman 6000 pairs of HP-1000s a week ago.

John who made every pair of HP-1000s besides the first pair said 1000 total pairs were manufactured.

It is possible that by quoting a higher number, Joe is trying to "outdo" John in the number of sales, given the marketing success of the Grado RS-1s. The HP-1000s were not a marketing success at all, but were very superb headphones.

The 6000-9000 pair seems unreasonable given the amount of time needed to manufacture the aluminum earpieces.

What do you guys think?

 

[imported_maverick_12]

I think joe is getting old and losing it.

 

[grinch]

good post yidi, i was thinking about bringing up a similar comment.

john himself told me that they only made 1,000 pairs ("of HP-1000's"), and that it took them three years to sell all of them. however, john has also been noted as saying that the hpa-1 is "basically the same" as the ra-1. i'm really unsure of who is telling the truth, but at this point i think i'm going to believe john because that means my hp-1's are more rare.

grado was originally bankrupt (or on the brink) when john took over, and i imagine r&d on a headphone line that did not do well in its time could force a company into that. reguardless, i know who's side i'm on when the sound is concerned.

 

[grinch]

also, i'd like to throw in the fact that hp-3 and hp-2 do sound different (to my ears anyway) and that there is zero physical difference between the two unless you have the original box they came in. OR of course you've compared them against a known pair of hp-2's (or hp-1's of course).

i still think a lot of times that people post their feelings on a pair of hp-2's, that they are secretly a pair of hp-3's and that's why sometimes i wonder What some people are hearing. just me though.

 

[braillediver]

Joe Grado told me last Friday that they made 6000 pairs of HP1000 headphones. Maybe that’s all 3 of the HP1000’s: HP-1, HP-2, HP-3 and the 3 SR’s: SR100, SR200, SR300 combined?

John Grado would have been awfully busy building 6000 pairs of headphones if he did it all himself? That’s 1 pair an hour 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for 3 years straight with out a break?

Mitch