Grado Statement GS2000e

摘要

I'm of sufficient vintage that the name Grado still conjures up images in my mind of pick-up cartridges rather than headphones. But had John Grado, son of founder Joe Grado, not diversified the New York company into making headphones in the early 1990s, would it still be with us? Quite possibly not. In becoming a headphone manufacturer, having started as a maker of pick-up cartridges, Grado achieved something unusual. You might say that Shure - once a much bigger player in the cartridge industry - made the same transition, but remember that Shure already made microphones, and the link between microphones and headphones is a long-established one (AKG, Audio-Technica, Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser, etc). Grado had no such heritage.