The Only Headphones You'll Ever Need

March, 2016

Long before the headphone wars—the Apple earbud versus generic earbud versus Beats versus WannaBeats wars- there was Grado. For decades the company has been making—in Brooklyn, no less—the best headphones money can buy. Out of metal. Out of mahogany. With gold-plated adapters. In the USA. They're timeless, perfect, and they make all genres sound amazing with a dynamic range much broader than other, more aggressively marketed headphones not made in the USA. If there's such a thing as heirloom hea...

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