[Shang-Ti Chen]

Oh My God! Grado Labs facility is revealed! Let's check it out!

http://www.audiojunkies.com/blog/271...-facility-tour

John Chapais (Chief Engineer and VP of Grado) working in the heart of the Grado facility.

The CNC production machine.

John Chapais' office and test station.

Grado's 45 year old injection molding press that is used to make all of their plastic parts in-house.

Amplifier quality control station.

Just a few RA1 headphone amplifiers. Like everything else the woodwork and finish on these was absolutely beautiful. Grado has all of their woodwork done by another family owned business that has been around since 1785.

 

[uncletank88]

Wow... Just wow! Those headphone driver loudspeakers look really interesting, I wouldn't mind auditioning them. If worked there i would ask for a pair of RS1's. Heck, I'd make a pair for myself

 

[greydragon]

Cool. Kinda takes the mystique of headphones away though. I never imagined it was slew of hispanic women assembling them!

 

[paulb09]

Nice pictures. Even though I know very little about Grado and their history, I wasn't really expecting a place like that. The GS 1000 "salad bowls" look interesting

 

[monolith]

It's kind of neat to see a crappy cardboard box filled with the drivers to make eight pairs of GS-1000s.

It's like they print money there.

 

[jinx20001]

real nice pics, some of the equipment to build the headphones is a bit old but that just adds to the craftsmanship authenticity, very nice

 

[Zorander]

Haven't I seen the same pictures in one of the Meet impression threads?

 

[Shang-Ti Chen]

I really wonder if they may misplace the lower-end drivers into RS-1 or GS1000...

 

[Zorander]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shang-Ti Chen /img/forum/go_quote.gif I really wonder if they may misplace the lower-end drivers into RS-1 or GS1000...

Or the other way round...

 

[Shang-Ti Chen]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zorander /img/forum/go_quote.gif Or the other way round...

Hehehe... then that'd be

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[Varma]

Actually I have seen these pictures before in some threads.

Anyway, these pictures showcase the Grado Labs.

 

[rxc]

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=241948

 

[J_C_Denton1]

Wow, Ive never seen that before...
Its just amazing to see where my headphone was born. (Although at first I expect a better & modern manufacturing)

 

[lt.milo]

repost but cool

 

[J_C_Denton1]

Hmm, I wonder if you have never known / heard about Grado before, would you still buy the headphones after you saw the homemade factory?