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SR60 | 
 enlarge | Brand: Grado
Category: CE
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Avg. Customer Rating:  103 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 8 x 2
The SR60 has gained LEGENDARY status. The SR60 has received rave reviews from around the world and is the most commonly recommended headphone on the market today.
MPN: SR60
Model: 60
UPC: 182092000011
EAN: 0182092000011
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Vented diaphragm | | • | Non Resonant air chamber | | • | Standard copper voice coil wire | | • | Standard copper connecting cord | | • | Mini plug with 1/4 inch plug |
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Product Description
The SR60 has gained "legendary" status. The SR60 has received rave reviews from around the world and is the most commonly recommended headphone on the market today.PRODUCT FEATURES:Vented diaphragm;Non-resonant air chamber;Standard copper voice coil wire;Standard copper connecting cord;Mini plug with 1/4" adaptor.
Amazon.com Product Description
The Grado SR60 Headphones produce brilliant sound and offer outstanding listening comfort for a low cost. The SR60s have a flexible, soft vinyl headband. The headband and earpieces are connected by metal height adjusters, which adjust the height of your head with the center of your ear. These nifty adjusters also allow the earpiece to rotate a full 360 degrees, permitting them to lie flat on a surface perfect when packing in a suitcase. The SR60s come with earpads made of soft, porous, open-cell foam that covers the driver much more comfortably than standard foam earpads.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 98 more reviews...
 Best Cans for the $$ February 27, 2005
85 out of 88 found this review helpful
I recently bought these cans for my daughter to use with her iPod mini...I had read good things about these headphones even with the criticism(?) of antiquated styling, uncomfortable headband and open headphone style...Wow! I am so impressed with these headphones that I offered to swap my Bose Quiet Comfort 2 for these. She said NO! The response is so smooth with a dynamic range that allows you to hear every nuance recorded onto the track. Bass is true...not artificially enhanced or boosted...highs are razor crisp and midrange is full and "round." Don't look any further for your headphones...these are worth 4X the price...I know!
 Will make you remember the first time you heard good music April 9, 2005
68 out of 74 found this review helpful
I love these. I bought them to listen to music while designing a website. I plug into my computer, turn on the music, and I'm in another place. They're comfortable, clear and you hear music in the way it was meant to be heard. I woke up, threw in my Garden State cd, plugged in and am in bliss as I get ready to go back to the webdesign caves.
I think they look pretty darn cool in a "Radar O'Reilly way."
The plug at the end of the cord is the small plug that fits a computer and ipod and you receive an adapter to fit that big-honkin' hole for a stereo which I'll never use.
This is one of my best purchases for 2005.
Grado SR60 vs Sennheiser HD497 June 5, 2005
56 out of 56 found this review helpful
I don’t want to brag about how good the can is, coz' the whole world has hailed its performance over and over again. The very fact that this can is repeatedly compared to ones costing over $300 itself speaks of its astounding performance (... and unbelievable for its price). So I will give you the cons of the product that I have experienced.
CONS:
1. The headphone can be uncomfortable for extended wear. Many people have mentioned if you bend the headband backward or if you stretch the headband etc.... it gets more comfortable, but I haven't quite succeeded in achieving absolute comfort that Sennheiser HD497 provided.
2. Too much sound leakage. Since it is an open design, it leaks so much sound to the outside world, so I am forced to listen at low volumes at work. But then physics places a limitation that sealed headphones cannot achieve the quality of open headphone (resonance issue ... you can easily find info. as to why on the net...)
Conclusion:
1. When you listen to the can, its pure sound quality, imersive music melts all the cons away and makes you promise yourself that you will never give away this can.
2. If Bass is not much important to you, the Sennheiser HD497 provide a more crisp clear high. I have owned both the models, so I can vow on that. But overall, I would any day take the SR60 over the HD497.
Currently I have graduated to SR80 driven by a Headroom Total Bithead. But if you do not plan on getting an AMP, then I suggest you stick to SR60.
Entry-level Grados Too Good for Entry-level Listeners November 14, 2004
55 out of 89 found this review helpful
It's a bit challenging to approach these headphones unbiased after having encountered so much unwavering and unreserved praise for them. I knew not what to expect from them, and thought at first that I would experience some hitherto-unknown musical bliss. But armed with a pair of $70 headphones and a massive collection of 128kbps mp3s and oggs, how could I but feel a little foolish, a little disappointed? Grado's praise is well-deserved, no doubt--their headphones reproduce sound impressively, but my experience with them was not without its shortcomings: for one, admittedly a fault of my own, I allowed the reviews in its favor to convince me that my music could sound better than it actually could; for another, its foam earpads let considerable sound leak in and out of what should be, in my opinion, a purely solitary experience.
Surely, they produce sound better than the Sony MDR-CD60s I bought for $10 nearly seven years ago. But in truth, there are several factors that impose limits on just how much more orgasmic one's listening experience can be. In much the same way that a computer system is curbed by its slowest component, so the quality of a sound system sinks to the degree of _its_ worst component. For casual, frugal listeners who want to indulge themselves in something really sweet, it's a frustrating realization that your headphones aren't going to blow you away when your sound card cost half as much. I write not as an audiophile, but as a college student--one who listens to music recreationally, most often while doing other things, without the faculty (much less the time) to scrutinize my music. In short, I (and, in my opinion, a great many people who refuse to admit and may not even realize it) surmised that face-melting auditory beauty was actually within practicality, only a pair of headphones away. Of course, this realization is no fault of Grado Labs, and applies equally to all headphones exceeding forty dollars--and thus has not detracted from my rating.
More importantly, there are elements in the mere design of the headphones that affect the total listening experience--they are comfortable, no doubt, but their failure to aurally isolate the listener is, in my opinion, a fairly significant shortcoming. It should seem no surprise that listening to music on headphones should be a solitary, unadulterated activity--otherwise, the music would be playing over speakers, so that many people can hear them. Living in close proximity to so many other people, being able to selectively shut myself out from them and shut them out from me is fairly important--whether for studying or ignoring our diametrically opposed tastes in music. Therefore, it should follow that headphones should do a decent job of constricting their output to the ears of the listener and filtering out, to a certain degree, outside noise. But Grado's foam earpads sit on the ears instead of cupping over them like the leather bits on expensive Sony or Sennheiser headphones do, and so at low volumes, I found myself catching the not-so-faint whisper of my suitemate's iPod-earbuds in the background of my ambient music as we sat in the living room about ten feet away.
The hype and reputation surrounding these headphones is by no means deceptive. I'm sure the soundtrack of a DVD or music in lossless formats on formidable sound systems would come through breathtakingly. But they're not for everyone, and I used to think that the "not everyone" majority was considerably smaller than it actually is. The Grado SR-60s are well worth $70--but only for those who, for one, really have matching audio equipment (a Creative mp3 player, not an iPod); and for another, can actually tell the difference beyond that point.
 Not all that... December 6, 2005
46 out of 66 found this review helpful
These posts claiming to have owned dozens of high end cans from Sennheiser, etc. and "Grado is the best" are laughably fanboyish. Grado cans are good, but the SR-60 is not really high end sound -- not to mention, they're no longer the incredible bargain they used to be with headphones like the Sennheiser HD-497 around.
Grado has been challenged on the lower end in the sound quality department, and in my opinion they have always lacked in build quality. Drivers held together by hot glue, cheap plastic and cardboard "pizza boxes" for the delivery. Not to mention the cord gets tangled easily, and can be a strangulation risk if you fall asleep with them on (I'm not kidding).
They can also be aurally fatiguing for extended listening sessions, with bright/emphasized highs and absolutely zero "soundstage" -- sounds like the audio is being pumped into your head via a couple pinholes. I owned a pair for over a year, and I also noticed a lack of sonic detail compared to many other "high end" headphones. The SR-60 was among the least detailed (and i.e. most forgiving of poor sources and recordings) headphones I've owned.
The drivers have a tendency to pick up a "grattle" (rattling sound) with heavy use at higher volumes, and with the wrong recordings they can actually *shriek* in your ears -- experience this just once and you'll believe it (and probably start thinking about selling yours on eBay).
Not everyone is going to like the Grado sound (particularly classical, acoustic and film soundtrack listeners who value accurate highs, comfort and soundstaging more) so don't believe the hype. Also, even rock listeners should consider the Grado SR-225, which is recognized by many to be the "sweet spot" in the Grado lineup -- SR-60 is simply their entry level can, and is no longer the great bargain it used to be for the price. Compared to most other consumer headphones they are excellent, but if you're willing to put more energy into the search there's better to be had out there, and for similar prices.
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