Grado Statement Series GS3000x Dynamic Headphones

Statement Series GS3000x Dynamic, Over-Ear, Open-Back Headphones, by Grado Labs

Housing the most powerful Grado driver yet is a metal chamber surrounded by cocobolo wood, elevating the GS3000x to the best sounding Grado headphone in seven decades.

Read the What Hi-Fi? 5-Star Review of the Grado GS3000x, published in December 2023.

Journey inside the music and hear the space between instruments with the unique soundstage of the GS3000x. This is only possible when the new large cushions, new 52 mm driver, 12-conductor cable, and large housing work in unison. This is the most detail a Grado headphone has ever delivered from your music to your ears.

Teeming with texture and emotion, cocobolo’s sonic properties and innate mass makes it perfect for these new speakers. We paired this with a metal chamber to add even more mass, which in turn controls the rigidity of the largest driver yet. Cocobolo has striking patterns and colour that tend to vary from pair to pair, adding a unique look to your headphones.

The GS3000x is the first headphone to utilise the new 52 mm X Driver. Specifically tuned to embrace the tenacity of cocobolo and precision of metal, this new speaker design features a more powerful magnetic circuit, a voice coil with decreased effective mass, and a reconfigured diaphragm. Reengineering these components for the 52 mm drivers improve efficiency, reduces distortion, and preserves the harmonic integrity of your music.

Along with the speakers, the cables and headband have been redesigned for the GS3000x. Housed in a more durable exterior, the now super annealed copper 12-conductor cable reveals even more of your music with improved purity. The new black leather headband features a white-stitched accent.

Founded on a kitchen table in 1953, and working with wood for over a quarter century, Grado Labs has been perfecting the art of sonic reproduction every day since. This GS3000x has traveled from workbench to workbench until ready for your ears. Every experience since that kitchen table has led to the creation of the GS3000x.

GS3000x is also available with a balanced XLR connector as a special order item, at additional cost.

Features

• Hand-Assembled in Brooklyn.
• Cocobolo Wood Housing.
• Hybrid Metal Chamber.
• 52 mm Driver.
• Durable 12-Conductor Cable.
• G-Cushion.
• Metal Gimbals.
• White-Stitched Leather Headband.
• De-Stressed, Matched Drivers.

Specifications

• Transducer Type: Dynamic
• Operating Principle: Open Air / Open-Back
• Frequency Response: 4 - 51,000 Hz
• SPL @ 1 mW: 99.8 dB
• Nominal Impedance: 38 ohms
• Driver Matched dB: .05 dB
• Cable Type: 12-conductor

More Information

• GS3000X Statement Series Headphones, by Grado Labs