the Grado family has been very smart through the years with their cartridges.... We used to mod them at Marcof, our end product was better than any of the Grado's of the day....
We hand measured the coils and picked the tightest tolerances, we inspected and selected the best stylus.... We opened them and added epoxy which killed all resonances, we made our own mix of dampening and painted the cantilever dampening that also.... A dealer in New York called once and said Joe Jr is here trying to buy your cartridge... He was refusing to sell the cartridge to Joe... We told him to sell it to him.... About a year later, we found our changes in their very best cartridges.... Grado put out a good product and learned and made changes at every turn. From what I can tell, the Grado's continued to improve over time.
We hand measured the coils and picked the tightest tolerances, we inspected and selected the best stylus.... We opened them and added epoxy which killed all resonances, we made our own mix of dampening and painted the cantilever dampening that also.... A dealer in New York called once and said Joe Jr is here trying to buy your cartridge... He was refusing to sell the cartridge to Joe... We told him to sell it to him.... About a year later, we found our changes in their very best cartridges.... Grado put out a good product and learned and made changes at every turn. From what I can tell, the Grado's continued to improve over time.