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Grado GW100x, side view of the earcup
Grado GW100x, front view
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Grado

Grado GW100x

Price$275.00

An open-back wireless headphone, which almost nobody else makes.
Ordered from the maker when you order, then shipped usually inside two weeks and always inside thirty days. Shipping
Thirty days from delivery to send it back. Returns
Specifications
  • Type Open-back dynamic, wireless
  • Driver 44mm X, not the newer X2
  • Bluetooth 5.2, aptX Adaptive, AAC, SBC
  • Battery 46 hours, 2 hour charge, USB-C
  • Wired 3.5mm cable included
  • Impedance 38 ohms
Why it is here

Open-back and Bluetooth sounds like a contradiction and Grado built it anyway. You keep the air that closed wireless headphones flatten, and in exchange you get no isolation whatsoever. That trade is exactly right in a kitchen and exactly wrong on a plane. Buy this to get the cable out of your way at home. Do not buy it for a commute, and if somebody sold you one for a commute, bring it back.
What it is for

Cooking, the garden, the sofa. Anywhere the cable is the problem and the noise is not.
Grado GW100x, side view of the earcup
Grado GW100x Price$275.00
Before you buy
How I Listen, and What a Measurement Will Not Tell You

How I listen

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