Grado RS-1x

HOME HEADPHONES OF THE YEAR UNDER $5000 HEADPHONES Brooklyn-based Grado’s relationship with wood is as unequivocal, if not as famous, as Lego’s is with plastic. The family-owned brand was only a year into hand-building its first headphones when, as the story goes, John Grado (son founder, Joseph) woke one night with the idea of creating a wooden pair, went downstairs, and started carving out what would become the RS1. More than 30 years after that first wooden Grado creation comes the fourth generation — the $1199 RS1x (confusingly the company lists the model number without a hyphen, but as you can see it has taken the trouble to carve a hyphen into each headshell, so we’re including it here). In fact the RS-1x is the brand’s first ‘tri-wood’ pair, using,…

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