YEAH BABY THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WAITING FOR! MADE IN USA!

That’s so nice to hear, thank you.

@@keplermission4947 I don’t agree with you. Steve me where are unique shirts but I know a lot about men’s clothing and they are not quality shirts for the most part. My best friend from childhood had a company named Robert Graham which is sold. Those were expensive flashy shirts. $300, $500, $800. I don’t think Steve pays a kings ransom for his clothing. I may not understand why Steve won’t reply to my question but I am and will remain a giant fan of his because he has the right idea about how to make a presentation and he knows how to listen to music whether I like it or not. He’s a pro at what he does.

@@keplermission4947 I forgot about that. What I see about Steve is that so many people in the industry have a lot of respect for him and he can do long interviews with someone like Nelson Pass and others. I forgot about the Snell speaker issue. I certainly do not agree with him about some of the music that he loves like Brian Eno. Brian has a tremendous following but I find his music distasteful. I like straight forward jazz, blues and classical to name a few but the strange artists who have made a name for themselves and not my cup of tea. I totally respect him and all of the Eno followers opinions and feelings though. They don’t force me to listen to their music and they should enjoy with her like just as I enjoy what I like. As my uncle Saul used to say Two people that he disagreed with in his own retail establishment…”It’s Your America”. “Now get the hell out of my store” 8-)

Try the Rs1x, it’s even faster sounding than the 1266 phi TC

Yes, I’ve listened to Hana carts a few years ago, didn’t light my fire. That said, many of my friends really enjoy those cartridges.

@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac thanks. One other suggestion - a video on your recommended approach for setting up a cartridge would be helpful. What alignment tool (if any) you recommend, and so on. Thus far, I’ve been underwhelmed by the sound I get from my turntable setup.

I just got the Reference3 low output. So far so good on my 15 years old MMF-7. The wood part is huge and the cantilever is very small. So I waited for the right day to install it. I noticed right away it goes really low in the bass. Enjoy yours!

@@chrish.4067it’s taken a year but I’ve finally set it up and it’s sounding really good. I can’t imagine a better sound.

@@Borednlonely same here. I'm older so this probably will be my last cartridge. There's no need to upgrade. I spend a lot of time listening to Qobuz with a Node 2i/Denafrips Ares and FM with a Marantz Model Twenty, which are darn good. But when I play an album it's another world. I'm glad you got yours setup!

No, as I said I used the Technics SL 1200 GR

@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac Thank you. Even though it is DD. That table has a lot of isolation around the motor. So not surprising, and very encouraging. Might look to mount something on my own 1200 GAE. Thanks again, the response was helpful.

1.8 grams

@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac Thanks Steve !

Compared to the 325x, the RS1x are, let's say, more cultural. Less competitive and tiring. Do they outperform them in terms of transparency and bass? Not necessarily. It's still that Grado sound, but as the price goes up, we get more calm and refinement. Exactly culture. 325x is a hooligan on a motorcycle. The RS1x has more refinement. He is less harsh on the way around. I believe that, after all, they are closer to the 325 than the GS series. This is my favorite Grado model. Is it worth the extra 400USD? You have to listen, compare and answer yourself.

Look into the Audio Technica VM95 series. I can't recall if the cartridge bodies are all exactly identical, but they have a range of styluses that are all interchangeable making it easy to "upgrade". Stylus shape and construction generally does have a large effect on the sound of the cartridge.

@@nkram2142 Thanks Will do

Thanks for watching! Audiophiliac@mail.com

Same here… wait for help

Well, then give them to someone who will appreciate them.

@@robertthurston6858 That is a good thought!

I’ll pay for the shipping 😄

Right, I prefer the SME and Cadenza Blue, for my personal system. But I also need a far more affordable turntable system for many reviews.

@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac Ok, fair enough. I hope you get around some time to review the Grado Lineage series......that'll tip the scales a bit when it comes to affordability compared to the Ortofon Cadenza range :-)

Yeah, same here.

I have them both. One can't tell the difference between them. They are so close.

For a one time 15 minute chat it’s $75

Well it's about 40% less hempy by the looks

I'd be upset with that experience as well.

I’m a music professional and never buying Grado again as well. Poor service and quality is not for pros.

I could not wait to get my Grado headphones sadly after 4 months they fell apart.I paid alot of money for them, I most likely would not recommend them Before I bought them a friend of mine warned me about this probem.I do not recommend them.Yes nice sound but not worth the HIGH END PRICE.

@@keplermission4947 Your comment eludes reason IMHO. You are calling him Greedy because he expected an expensive product to work as advertised and the manufacturer to make good on it's failure? If you called Grado greedy for producing this crap at inflated prices and then ignoring their customer I'd have been with you. Computers are a different beast. Unlike headphones, computers are expected to be obsolete in 5 years and everyone knows that going into the purchase. And BTW, you can buy a damned good computer for $900 and if it fails in the first year, they'll replace it, no questions asked.

Are you guys apes in a zoo? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Well, important thing is that you like them!! What others think isn’t that important

@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac I understand that Steve. What I don’t know is if you gave them enough break-in time since you spoke about the Grado’s needing over 100 hours of break-in. There was even a four person double blind shootout between three Audeze models including the ‘X’ model headphones and the QUAD’s were chosen by three of the four listeners over the other three Audeze models. That being said, I was never a fan of any QUAD Speakers even though they have a spectacular, fast and articulate mid range. Never owned anything made by Quad until I read the reviews on these cans and they are being driven by the PASS Headphone amp in my system. I am really trying to be objective about this not subjective and we can still have different taste but I just got the feeling that you never gave them an adequate trial. I’ll leave it at that because you are correct we each have different tastes.

Steve has been dismissive to something called "quad"? *shocked face*

@@JonnyGators seems like he’s not the only one. The reviews were so spectacular and now they’ve pulled several of them so I don’t know what’s going on with quad but I do know that they are spectacular sounding and I never disagreed with what Steve has to say I’m usually very happy with his reviews because they’re very accurate in my opinion.

If they were made in Asia they would be $5 at Walmart. And far better quality.

@@user-od9iz9cv1w The Grado wireless headphone is made in Asia. I'm pretty sure it's more than $5.

False. It is something that you can measure. it is very real with dynamic drivers. There are examples you can find with measurements changing with speaker breakin.

@@snowpuppy77 yeh, but the extent to which "burn in" is "real" alongside, or re-labeled as, listener accommodation and/ or placebo effect is close to immeasurable once those variables are considered. My opinions of audio devices may change after "new," but I would not credit the "change" to "dynamic" effects in the hardware caused by use, i.e., playing music.

If you don’t like them, that’s cool, but the company has been around for almost 70 years, so they must be doing something right. And hasn’t felt the need to build their products overseas. But again if you don’t like them, that’s fine with me.

@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac Grados are very reasonably priced compared to what we are seeing among their competitors. I have heard a ton of headphones at many different shows and own a lot of them. Grados hold their own in their price range and usually deliver a presence and intimacy to the recording that is rarely found at any price. I disagree with Stephen Charlton, Grados are actually very well reviewed. If they we not well reviewed, then what hype did Stephen Charlton give into? Grados are usually polarizing so people who buy them often are not sure if they will like them but often end up loving them. There is a reason for that. And their opinion is just as valid. By the way my 20 year old RS1 have had lots of use and they are in great condition. In practice, build quality is actually very good compared to other headphones I have used.

Just because you didn’t like it or it didn’t suit your system doesn’t mean it’s overpriced. Comfort issues fair enough but they obviously have a design and manufacture philosophy that they don’t deviate from.

Breaking in a transducer is just as real as breaking in any other machine with moving parts. Even more so, since there's both frictional and elastic effects involved. And the reason they tend not to sound worse after break-in is a mix of two things: a) The effect of you adjusting psychoacoustically to the sound outweighs the degradation in the sound itself b) Literally every speaker/headphone designer on the planet acknowledges break-in as a thing and designs their transducers accounting for the fact that... You know... They're going to move when you play music through them. And since every reviewer worth their salt understands it's a thing too, there's no harm in designing something that reaches its targeted sound characteristics after break-in as opposed to before.

@@ChrisStoneinator Lets start with the bullshit about speaker company's designing their $10000 speaker so some ametuer can take it home to "break in". Surely being the experts they are, they wouldn't allow some KZfaq/facebook/whatever moron to spend 109.3 hours messing around on what they think is the optimum pink/yellow/brown noise mix. Surely they being the experts would do all this BEFORE it got to the consumer, because they SURELY KNOW, when it is indeed broken in using the best acoustical equipment to measure the changes to know it is indeed, "BROKEN IN"? Would that not be the logical process? Or is more likely that mechanical things will break very early in their life cycle of there's a fault, or later in life? Hence why maybe "breaking in" was a thing. Much like 30 years ago, stress testing a new PC for 2 or 3 days at max would find anything that had a mechanical issue early on so it could be replaced before put into use. Only a few diehard Sys Admin will do that as things are much better now Your psychoacoustic argument is pretty lacking. If you Listen to them while they are "breaking in", then your are "psycoacustically" adjusting to them continually breaking in so you'll never really know. If you just leave them, you still don't know because who's to say when its "fully broken in"? "If you just leave them another 50 hrs, i'm sure they'll sound cherry sweet". Or is more that the longer you have something, the less likely you are to convince yourself you like it, because you're a seasoned psychoacoustic professional that wouldn't buy something they didn't like, thus making less Return Stock for a dealer or manufacturer to worry about? Nice work with the whole "Transducer" talk to make yourself sound smarter, just say speaker lol Also, go talk to an actual mechanical engineer, or electrical engineer, not in the audio game. The amount of rubbish otherwise smart people are willing to swallow in this game is truly worrying at times.

@@banginga3468 the user isn’t “messing around” with the speaker, they’re using it for its intended purpose and letting it break in. Yeah, worrying about optimal mixes of noises or numbers of hours is more than a bit silly, but fundamentally the diaphragm needs to be stressed. Doesn’t matter how you do it. I said transducer because, you may have noticed, the video is about headphones, so might as well make it more general. I don’t have a psychoacoustic “argument”, unless you think saying that we adjust to the sound of a new headphone, speaker or acoustic space is controversial. I’m not an engineer, but my degree is in physics and all my essay projects were about acoustics and/or digital and analog audio signals. You can choose not to believe that it makes a noticeable difference. But the physics of it is quite literally undeniable, so you can’t argue it isn’t a thing, and Steve seems to notice it. It’s his video, and I can’t help but notice that all audiophiles with any degree of experience who aren’t trying to sell you something cheap, seem to arrive at the same conclusion.