Grado GH3 Heritage Series

There were many famous US brands established in the post-war period, commonly named after their various founders. Few remain independent. But Grado is still in the hands of the Grado family some two-thirds of a century after it was established in Brooklyn, New York.

And even though the Grado GH3 Heritage Series headphones are priced towards the lower boundary of this collection, they also are hand-built in Brooklyn.

They are by far the lightest in physical weight of any of the headphones in our group test: 156 grams according to my scales. These are also the only on-ear model from this collection. The light weight means that they need not