Grado Signature HP100 SE - HP1000 homage?

[MexicanDragon]

https://gradolabs.com/products/hp100-se

Just found out aboot these today thanks to @DouglasQuaid

Anyone have hands/ears on yet?

[recstar24]

They look cool! Would be curious as well.  I do not have high hopes that they actually sound like a Joe Grado lol

[blessingx]

59 minutes ago, recstar24 said:

They look cool! Would be curious as well.  I do not have high hopes that they actually sound like a Joe Grado lol

Different drivers, different housing, and different pads? Never affected the sound of a Grado before.  🙃

[Sherwood]

They lost me on the pads, obviously, but Todd still sells flats.  The price isn't particularly competitive with used HP1/2/3, even.  That said, I'd love to hear them.

[HiWire]

I'd like to try them, too.

I don't expect them to beat the Joseph Grado HP-1/2/3, but I'm curious about how Grado engineers a target sound profile for a flagship headphone... and what kind of electronics they use to drive them.

[MexicanDragon]

8 hours ago, Sherwood said:

They lost me on the pads, obviously, but Todd still sells flats.  The price isn't particularly competitive with used HP1/2/3, even.  That said, I'd love to hear them.

https://gradolabs.com/products/grado-headphone-replacement-cushion-f

Look familiar?

Grado is now selling "F-Cushions", aka "Flat Pads... and these headphones come with both G (salad bowels) and F (flats) cushions.

They also have a nice little chart on their pad page that shows all the things that they work with:
https://gradolabs.com/collections/headphone-cushions

One thing I'm happy about, as someone who has had HF-2s that have been down for a couple years due to a bad cable and I just haven't gotten together with @cetoole (who has a Tyll-esque appreciate for Grados) to recable them, is that they have an effective-standard of mini-XLR jacks for cables. That opens up SO many opportunities to make something ridiculous.

Who is the first person to make the plunge and then have @n_maher woody them?