Replacement Headphone recommendations

kumar101 · 9 Apr 2007 at 12:16

My Grado SR-80's have finally fallen got many years of good use out of them and need some replacements now.

Very happy with the sound quality of the Grados but not happy about paying extortionate UK prices to replace them. Can anyone recommend me some alternatives. Was thinking about Sennheisers or Beyerdynamic.

Looking for something with neutral sound for use with XFi-elite Pro, my budget is upto £120.

kumar101 · 9 Apr 2007 at 19:34

adfinni said:
My headphone recomendation:

http://www.alessandro-products.com/headphones.html

Alessandro grado MS-1. Look similar to the sr-80's (have no model badge on grill tho),and will sound better than the sr-80's and more like the sr-125's.

Plus at $99 delivered worldwide with no crappy pricing regulations like the standard grado's you do the 'math'

......thats a really good price.

Have you ordered from this company before? Did you pay by CC or some other method?

kumar101 · 11 Apr 2007 at 08:42

daz said:
Have a look at the AKG K240 for a neutral sound. One of the best studio monitoring headphones out there.

These look good and have been well reviewed. How do they compare against the Grado SR80?

kumar101 · 11 Apr 2007 at 13:08

wush said:
I have ordered from the Alessandro website before. Took a couple of weeks to get them but it's worth it for the huge saving over jacked-up Grado UK prices. CC was fine

Good to hear, Grado take the P**S with their UK pricing and restrictive export policies.

Im surprised that companies don’t seem to realise how much bad PR they are getting by ripping off UK Customers in the Internet era.