If you are serious about sound and want the best, this is it.

Grado is proud to introduce the new flagship of their headphone line, the PS1000. This hybrid design has an inner sleeve of a selected species of hand-crafted mahogany made by using an intricate curing process. Its outer housing of metal machined from a special non-resonant, very hard metal alloy utilizes a special processing and casting method to increase the porosity of the alloy. This combination of wood and metal insures that the earphone chamber has no "ringing" which might obscure detail or add coloration. The way the wood and metal housing moves air and reacts to sound vibrations is now virtually unaffected by transient distortions.

Grado has also designed a new cable for the PS1000. The new eight-conductor cable design, utilizing UHPLC (ultra-high purity, long crystal) copper, improves control and stability of the total range of the frequency spectrum. The PS1000 also utilizes a newly re-configured voice coil and diaphragm design, resulting in unsurpassed speed and accuracy response. The cushion design creates the correct balance between the driver and hybrid housing to give the resulting musicality desired. The cushion design also makes the PS1000 one of the most comfortable to wear headphones in the world. Grado has taken all their knowledge and years of experience in controlling resonances and eliminating distortions and this has culminated in the development of their finest headphone ever, the PS1000.

The thing that makes these headphones so special is the hybrid metal / wood construction that incorporates the tone and timbre of RS1, while maintaining the superior mid-range of undergraduate and reduced resonance decay.. The PS1000 also offer large cushions as providing a comfortable fit on the head, great for very long listening sessions, and also create sound and large headstage.

Technically, the PS1000 seems relatively simple and straightforward, but many an unassuming audio product has proven to be spectacularly accurate. Grado has paid much attention to the driver housings, which consist of an inner mahogany section and an outer frame of a very hard metal alloy. Actually to call it a frame is a misnomer, because this hunk of metal resembles a puck more than anything. Grado also says they worked long and hard to get the air chamber behind the drivers properly shaped to minimize transient distortions.

I tried many other Headphones and they didn't even come close to the spectacular sound that these Grado PS1000's produce. Superb bass, superb midrange and superb highs and the cleanness and the depth of sound that these Headphones produce, caught me by surprise. It's the sound that matters and that's where these Grado PS1000 Headphones EXCELL. Buy them. You will not be disappointed.