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In Reply to: Can someone identify this Grado ? posted by danlaudionut on May 12, 2007 at 19:16:59:
Had a buddy back in those days that was a rep for Grado products (among several other brands) and brought a bag full over to my place. We kept installing one after another until he found a "keeper". Threw the rest directly in the trash. It appears almost all were crap though every now and then there would be one that performed way beyond its design. Odd.
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Not that odd really, Grado has been doing that for years.The modern Grado plastic bodied cartridges above the black and green ( and the green is just a selected black, both share the three piece cantilever instead of the four piece one). All of them are basically the same but selected and graded for quality.
The red is a selected blue, the gold a selected silver and so on.
The same goes for the woodies. The old signature series too.
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Al G
Born To Tinker!
Actually, Grado isn't the only company that has made cartridges with the "we'll make it and then grade it to see what model it becomes." Linn (or so I've heard) did the same thing once--the cartridges that tested the best became Asaks, and the ones that didn't became Traks.One thing I'll say about Grado is that they apparently do have better quality control before shipping than some other companies that make low end cartridges. I almost never hear a horror story about a Grado that is horrendously flawed out of the box.
Yep, that pre-Deming approach to manufacturing wherein key quality and standards compliance checking come into play after the product is manufactured.Not sure whether to admire Grado for their traditional approach or to hold them up as an example of why North America lost so much manufacturing to the Far East. Probably somewhere in the middle.
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