[mrchyles]

What is the difference between these two? When I go to the manufacturers website they only list the ms2, are these actually the ms2is?

 

[cantsleep]

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Originally Posted by mrchyles /img/forum/go_quote.gif When I go to the manufacturers website they only list the ms2, are these actually the ms2is?

yes.
same driver, different housing.

 

[Killercrush]

I read it all when I was thinking of buying a pair ( I did ) and the overall saying was that the newer model had a bit more bass as well as a little bit bigger soundstage, we're talking about no more than 5-10% differences here. I definitely prefer the old school frankenstein peg look though than the mushroom look.

 

[F107plus5]

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Originally Posted by mrchyles /img/forum/go_quote.gif What is the difference between these two? When I go to the manufacturers website they only list the ms2, are these actually the ms2is?

Yup; when Grado upgraded the SR-325 to the SR-325i in early '05, Alessandro inherited the new housing right along with Grado.

We started calling it "i" cause there were too many keystrokes in "Fatboy"!

 

[SysteX]

And just to confirm (because I was unsure about it when I bought mine), although the Alessandro website says MS2, they are indeed the updated version--what we call the "MS2i".

 

[souperman]

I really wish I could get my hands on ANY of the two .

 

[The Other Allen]

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Originally Posted by souperman /img/forum/go_quote.gif I really wish I could get my hands on ANY of the two .

x2 Can't afford to buy and try (did that with the 325i) and everything I've read about the MS2i makes me think I would like them a lot.

 

[F107plus5]

Oh; and while I'm thinking about it. There is another problem with the photo of the cans in the Alessandro web-site.

The headband pictured on the MS2 is incorrect. It's really the much nicer one pictured on the MS-Pro!

Grado has a sourcing problem. They now can only get two headbands. The smaller one as used on all the plastic Grados and the MS-1, and the larger much nicer one previously used only on the woodies. Yup; the MS2i and SR-325i now get the luxury headband!

 

[fureshi]

i had both the ms2 and ms2i briefly and i could not tell the difference between the two. the drivers are identical so i don't think the newer housing would've made that much of a difference in sound as they're the same material albeit thicker. in the end i kept the ms2 since it had been with me for a while already.

 

[penger]

are the drivers themselves different from 325i drivers? (i read somewhere they are, but i just wanna make sure)

 

[F107plus5]

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Originally Posted by penger /img/forum/go_quote.gif are the drivers themselves different from 325i drivers? (i read somewhere they are, but i just wanna make sure)

From all the evidence floating around, that seems to be the case.

The John Grado interview seems to state that, and the history about SR-325 to SR-325i compared to MS2/MS2i seems to add to that conclusion as well, since it appears the MS2 and the SR-325 were quite a bit different originally, but when they became the MS2i/SR-325i still with the same(but different new style)housings, the differences were still there but just not as obvious as before. So Grado changed drivers on the SR-325 to SR-325i upgrade, but made no change to the drivers with MS2(i) which means to me, anyway; that there was a vastly different driver in the SR-325, both black and silver, than what there was in the original MS2. And if Grado would have simply swapped the MS2 driver into the new SR-325i/MS2i housing, they should sound the same as the MS2i, which; apparently from all the comparisons; they don't!

 

[penger]

ahhh I see I see. Nice. Thanks for the explanation, that really helps.