Grado Labs, the respected third-generation family-owned company that handcrafts its headphones in Brooklyn, has launched its new flagship hi-fi headphones to celebrate the 100th birthday of the company’s founder, Joseph Grado.

The all-new Grado Signature HP100 SE are contemporary versions of the classic Signature HP1, the company’s first headphone released in the early 1990s. The new models share ’90s nostalgia but have been completely redesigned with new drivers and modern design changes.

Grado Signature HP100 SE

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A completely new driver

The main feature of the HP100 SE is its 52mm driver, which Grado says is a completely new speaker design. It combines a paper composite cone with a “strong high-flux magnetic circuit” and a new voice coil made of lightweight copper-plated aluminum.

The result, according to the company, is headphones that “produce excellent high-frequency resolution, midrange smoothness, and low-distortion bass energy, delivering musically and harmonically accurate voicing.”

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