Grado Labs創辦人Joseph Grado昨日離世，終年90歲，感謝他為音響界多年的努力。
香港年輕玩家對Grado比較陌生，這裡就說說歷史，1953年創辦Grado Labs，早年以黑膠唱頭為主，到80年代黑膠市場衰落的時候，聽從侄子John Grado的建議，開始耳機研發，成為業界著名品牌，1982年入選Audio Hall Of Fame，在不少玩家心目中，Grado跟AKG、Beyerdynamic、Sennheiser統稱為傳統耳機四大家。相片中手持的正是Joseph Grado Signature的HP-1000，分為HP-1、HP-2、HP-3，HP-1有相位轉換的機能。到1990年的時候Joseph Grado把業務交給John Grado，自己繼續充滿音樂及音響的生活，現時家族第三代亦出身，John Grado的兒子Johnathan Grado出任副總裁，負責市場推廣。
It is with a heavy heart for the Grado family to say that Joseph Grado, founder of Grado Labs and inventor of the stereo moving coil phono cartridge, passed away this morning at the age of 90. In the early 1950s, Joseph began using the skills he gained as a master watchmaker to start crafting phono cartridges on his kitchen table in Brooklyn, New York. He went on to clear out the Grado family fruit store around the corner and in 1953, Grado Laboratories was born.
Joseph guided Grado until 1990 when he passed the torch to his nephew, John Grado, and our headphone era began. For the past two decades, he enjoyed living in South Carolina building and tinkering with anything to do with audio. The Grado family holds Uncle Joe in the highest regard, and without him, not only would we still be working in a fruit store, but we would have never started making headphones.
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