Then - slightly unexpectedly but wholly welcome nonetheless - is that the PS2000e harnesses this ability in a headphone that looks a bit less weird and is dramatically more comfortable than many other Grado designs. This turns them from something academically brilliant into something genuinely brilliant. This is one of the finest home headphones ever made and it unhesitatingly comes Highly Recommended.
With the neutrality and accuracy of their best designs as a given, the break through design of the Grado Labs Flagship Headphone PS2000e signals Grado Labs entry to the Big Time! Grado is challenging all state of the art headphone designs with the PS2000e, whether you listen for production or fun
To sum up the Grado PS2000e hybrid open-back headphone, it’s one of the finest sounding headphones to come from Grado Labs so far. The genius concept of using maple wood for the sound chamber mixed with metal creates a totally unique sound that will please many audiophiles.
n my opinion, today’s high-caliber headphones don’t get a free pass simply because of advancements that have reduced distortion and heightened transparency. Yes, these are significant qualities, but to be of the highest caliber headphones must also create an authentic and immersive space—the reverberant atmosphere of a recording venue. This was the area where the PS2000e excelled. Cue up an ambience-rich track of massed voices, with organ and strings, performing in a voluminous hall, as in Rutter’s Requiem, and if you close your eyes it is often like listening to a terrific high-end loudspeaker. There is an unvarnished honesty, emotion, and intensity about these ’phones.
The Grado Professional Series PS2000e headphones are the best Grado headphones that we’ve ever listened to, and one of the best performing headphones we’ve listened to period.
Dec 27, 2019
Then - slightly unexpectedly but wholly welcome nonetheless - is that the PS2000e harnesses this ability in a headphone that looks a bit less weird and is dramatically more comfortable than many other Grado designs. This turns them from something academically brilliant into something genuinely brilliant. This is one of the finest home headphones ever made and it unhesitatingly comes Highly Recommended.
Ed Selley
AVForum
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Jun 18, 2017
With the neutrality and accuracy of their best designs as a given, the break through design of the Grado Labs Flagship Headphone PS2000e signals Grado Labs entry to the Big Time! Grado is challenging all state of the art headphone designs with the PS2000e, whether you listen for production or fun
Robert H. Levi
Positive Feedback
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Jun 29, 2017
To sum up the Grado PS2000e hybrid open-back headphone, it’s one of the finest sounding headphones to come from Grado Labs so far. The genius concept of using maple wood for the sound chamber mixed with metal creates a totally unique sound that will please many audiophiles.
Steven Newcastle
Major HiFi
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Mar 14, 2018
The Grado Labs PS2000e takes the classic Grado sound to new heights, but it won’t please everyone.
Steve Guttenberg
Sound & Vision
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Jul 10, 2018
n my opinion, today’s high-caliber headphones don’t get a free pass simply because of advancements that have reduced distortion and heightened transparency. Yes, these are significant qualities, but to be of the highest caliber headphones must also create an authentic and immersive space—the reverberant atmosphere of a recording venue. This was the area where the PS2000e excelled. Cue up an ambience-rich track of massed voices, with organ and strings, performing in a voluminous hall, as in Rutter’s Requiem, and if you close your eyes it is often like listening to a terrific high-end loudspeaker. There is an unvarnished honesty, emotion, and intensity about these ’phones.
Neil Gader
The Absolute Sound
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Aug 22, 2018
The Grado Professional Series PS2000e headphones are the best Grado headphones that we’ve ever listened to, and one of the best performing headphones we’ve listened to period.
Tucker Bowe
Gear Patrol
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Jun 08, 2017
The PS2000e is my favourite-sounding Grado. I like its speed, its more natural upper midrange, and its wide-spread low band.
Nathan
Headfonia
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