grado sr 60 review

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Average Ratings

Sound Quality	8.8/10
Comfort Level	7.7/10
Value for Money	9/10
Reviewer Rating	9.1/10
Overall Rating	9.2/10

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By runbux on 17th Jun 2007

runbux's Ratings

Time Headphones Owned	Over 1 Year
Sound Quality	7/10
Comfort Level	3/10
Value for money	8/10
Overall value	7/10
runbux's recommendation

Good Points

Very accurate bass and mids. Best headphones available for the price. Response (especially highs) improves with a good headphone amp, even the modest CMoy do-it-yourself model!

Bad Points

Not many built-in headphone amps put out enough current to properly drive the 32-ohm impedance of the SR-60's.

General Comments

Well, I am a professional audio engineer working in the Classical arena. I admit that I don't use the SR-60s for monitoring on-the-job, but that's because you can't judge sound quality or stereo image using headphones alone, monitor speakers are absolutely required. However, I use the SR-60 for all my recreational listening with CD or .wav media. I love the things! With CD's I have engineered, I'm very pleased with the sound and imaging. You will need a good headphone amp on account of the extremely low impedance of these phones, but the good news is that an outboard amp will dramatically improve the sound in other ways. In my opinion, individuals who question the response of these 'phones are probably hearing the problems inherent with their built-in headphone amp. Try the SR-60s with a CMoy amp using the Burr-Brown OPA2132 op-amp (+/-9VDC, R5=100-ohms) and you'll hear what these phones are capable of. With a REALLY high end amp, they're even more incredible! You simply can't go wrong with these headphones, for the price! By the way, Koss phones always break after only a couple weeks.

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