Grado Labs — the revered third-generation family-owned audio company that handcrafts its headphones in Brooklyn — has launched new flagship hi-fi headphones to celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of company founder Joseph Grado.

The brand new Grado Signature HP100SE are contemporary versions of the company’s classic Signature HP1, its first headset released in the early 1990s. The new models share similar ’90s nostalgia, but have been redesigned from the ground up with new drivers and design changes modern.

Grado Signature HP100SE

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A brand new driver

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

The result, according to the company, are headphones that produce “excellent high-frequency resolution, mid-range smoothness, and bass energy with low distortion, resulting in a musically and harmonically correct voice.”

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