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Grado Labs iGrado $49.00
By Mark Brezinski May 7, 2008
Grado Labs iGrado
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Introduction

The iGrado headphones from Grado Labs have a serious case of the i’s. Presumably named in honor of Apple’s ubiquitous iPod, these headphones are meant for use with portable media devices. The cord is a bit less than four feet in length, which will reach your pants pocket, but not leave a ton of slack. The iGrados are also smaller than most on-ear sets, thanks mainly to their around the back of the head design. Unfortunately, the plastic band might be a bit uncomfortable. Since it can’t be adjusted, it will feel tight against all but the tiniest of heads.

In terms of audio quality, the iGrado headphones weren’t the best. They had good frequency response across most of the audio spectrum, but underemphasized higher frequency sounds, however, and was especially erratic towards the very high end. The headphones were actually very good at handling distortion, although we did find a sharp, high spike towards the higher frequencies. We saw this spike in the Grado SR60s as well, which makes sense, since the two headphones have the same guts. As open-backed headphones, there isn’t much of a barrier (it’s actually about as air tight as a chain-link fence) to stop outside sounds from mucking up your music. It did, somehow, leak less of your music to the outside world than we’re used to seeing from open-backed headphones. In terms of everything else, the iGrado headphones were on either side of average.

The iGrado headphones from Grado Labs, Inc., are available for $49.99.

This review is organized into 6 pages
Page 1
Tour & Design

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Performance

Decent distortion and frequency response, and less leakage than other open-back units, but didn’t out-perform many headphones even where it did well.

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In Use

Not heavy, compact for its form factor. These headphones can be very uncomfortable. They aren’t as portable as they could or should be.

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Value & Comparisons

The iGrado headphones are a good deal, but other Grado models are slightly more expensive, far more comfortable, and able to offer better audio quality.

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Conclusion

Read our final conclusion of the Grado Labs iGrado.

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Part 6
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