What Hi Fi Sound and Vision
17 APR 2009
Grado SR60i
Listening to music through headphones is an intimate experience, so why not make the most of it?
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Headphones Product of the Year 2009
Unless you're an insurance claims investigator or someone similarly eagle-eyed, you may find perceiving the visual differences between these brand-new Grado SR60is and the outgoing SR60s nigh-on impossible. We certainly struggled.
Close inspection revealed a reworked plastic housing for the drivers, and we also know that the cable has been beefed up too.
Otherwise, it's a familiar design: the SR60is continue the proud Grado tradition of looking like something your grandfather might keep locked in a drawer along with his waxed moustache and monocle.
Superb performance
What's also traditionally Grado about the SR60is is how very accomplished they sound. The price might have increased a whole £10 over the old SR60s, but it's money very well spent.
Playing anything from Wire's Strange to Common's Heat, the Grados are thrillingly impartial.
Low frequencies punch heftily, yet stop punctually, while voices in the midrange are as loaded with character and expression as you're likely to hear. Treble, likewise, is deft and rapid.
Crank the volume up, and they leak sound like a sonic colander, so they're sure to attract a few quizzical glances if you wear them in public. But these are as good as any cans in their class.
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