Grado SR80e Headphones

"Five Stars" – What Hi-fi? Magazine

Perfectly Proportioned Soundstage

The perfectly proportioned soundstage of the Grado SR 80e headphone delivers the midrange you love and the details you crave. The four-conductor cable and gold-plated mini-plug bring the sparkle back to your home system, tablet, or phone. It's a great choice for musicians, too.

Grado's SR 80 headphones won a top rating of Five Stars from England's What Hi-Fi? magazine. "These are truly wonderful hearphones, they've got the bass energy... ripping into heavy tracks with a gusto that eludes lesser rivals," raves the magazine. "With vocals they intoxicate with a natural feel and beautifully proportioned soundstage: few headphones can transport you as convincingly... The Grado SR 80's are special. Buy 'em, and Love 'em."

These comfortable and highly dynamic "Prestige" headphones feature closely-matched Grado drivers in a 3"-diameter polycarbonate housing. The driver diaphragm is made of an advanced low-mass polymer carefully designed to provide a warm, well-balanced 20 Hz to 20 kHz frequency bandwidth with very low distortion. The low distortion output lets you listen for hours without the annoying "ear-burn" of most other low-price headphones.

New e-Series Enhancements

The new e-Series version of the SR 80 continues the evolution from the original model SR 80 through the award-winning SR 80i to the latest enhanced version, the SR 80e.

With the SR 80e, Grado has taken one of the world's most legendary headphones and made it even better. The SR 80e has a new driver design, a new polymer to damp resonant distortion in the plastic housing, and a new cable from plug to driver connection. The way the SR80e's new driver and plastic housing move air and react to sound vibrations virtually eliminate transient distortions.

This allows the signal flow over the new cable to reproduce sound that has improved tight control of the upper and lower range of the frequency spectrum, while supporting Grado's world renowned midrange. The SR 80e will produce a sound that is pure Grado, with warm harmonic colors, rich full bodied vocals, excellent dynamics, and an ultra-smooth top end.

• New driver design
• New polymer to better damp resonant distortion in the plastic housing
• New cable from plug to driver connection
• Open air/dynamic transducer with vented diaphragm
• 3"-diameter non-resonant air chamber
• 6ft connecting cord with mini plug and 1/4" phono plug adaptor

• Transducer Type: Dynamic
• Operating Principle: Open Air
• Frequency Response: 20 - 20,000 hz
• SPL 1mW: 99.8 dB
• Normal Impedance: 32 ohms
• Driver Matched dB: .1 dB

Best Audiophile Headphones 2020 - What Hi-Fi?

"There's no fancy electronics here, since Grado is a company that's all about the music. Oozing with detail and clarity, they offer a dynamic sound that's hard to beat at this price point."

- What Hi-Fi? magazine, July 2020

"Five Stars" – What Hi-fi? Magazine

"These are truly wonderful headphones, they've got the bass energy... ripping into heavy tracks with a gusto that eludes lesser rivals. With vocals they intoxicate with a natural feel and beautifully proportioned soundstage: few headphones can transport you as convincingly... The Grado SR80's are special. Buy'em, and Love'em."

- What Hi-Fi? magazine

"In the recording studio or for the serious hobbyist, I can't think of a more versatile or dimensionally satisfying personal speaker system.

- Anthony Chiarella, Fi magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4

"It figures that these Brooklyn-made phones would kick some serious butt," observes "These babies have a pretty big sound; a powerful, tight bottom end, very articulate midrange, and a good top end. They have an airy, open quality - less in your head then most phones near their price."

- Steve Guttenberg, Audio Video magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4

"Tonal colours are natural, even with difficult, early instruments... The level of detail is exemplary, and orchestral dynamics are faithfully rendered."

- Hi-Fi Choice magazine, Issue 57