Description
Introduction
This is a DIY kit fully compatible with Grado Alessandro Music Pro series. It includes Mahogany cups, stainless steel cup surrounding, standard Grado cushions, headbands and all the accessories to repair your MS Pro headphones, or upgrade any low end Grado headphones with plastic shells. The genuine wood shells can absorb harmful vibrations and greatly improve the sound quality. Following are compatible models we’ve verified with, and please ping us by email or on Facebook for any question.
- Grado SR80, SR80e
- Grado SR125, SR225
- Grado M1
- Grado SR60, SR60e
Package list
We include everything you need (expect the headband) to upgrade or repair your Grado headphones.
- 2 X Grado Ms Pro wood cups in original wood (painted twice with Oliver Oil) or black color
- 2 X Stainless steel anti-dust net (pre-installed)
- 2 X Stainless steel frames (cup surrounding, pre-installed) with black cups
- Installation accessories
- Headband (optional)
- Grado cushions (earpads, optional)
DIY tutorial to upgrade your Grado Headphones
Here is a step by step tutorial to upgrade your low-end, <$100 Grado headphones (e.g., SR60e) to a high-end, $400+ Alessandro Music Pro.
This is the SR60 headphone which you can buy from ebay in $60~80.
Step 1, take off cups from the headband and remove the cushion
Step 2, take the drivers with sleeves out of the old shell
Step 3, Install the drivers with sleeves into the new wood cups
Step 4, glue the drivers with sleeves and install back to the headband
Final step, repeat step 2-4 on both sides and done!
Another DIY tutorial on YouTube
Feedback from DIY communities
From head-fi.org: Earphone DIY Labs Wood Grado Cups + Dimensions!
Product pictures
The wood cups
Headbands
Grado headbands built with high quality artificial leather, high density foam padding, stainless steel band and high quality Grado lockers with silver or golden L/R logo.
Ear pads (sponge cushions)
We offer 3 types of cushions: type G, S and L. Type G is a solid circle and type S is a hollow circle as illustrated below.
G cushion
Important notice
- This is an empty headphone shell without drivers. It can NOT be used directly like ordinary earphones you may purchased elsewhere.
- Enjoy yourself but please proceed with caution in your own DIY project! Any modification to the shell or its accessories would make you lose our post-sale support or refund.
bnngv (verified owner) –
I replace it with my Grado SR60, and I like it, I am not trying to copy as the original Grado look, but I like the look of the wood instead of the original hard plastic SR60.
Thank you
Geoff Baxter (verified owner) –
Just received my set. They are absolutely beautiful. Quality is actually much better than the pictures show!! I highly recommend these!!
joan –
Does the sound improve with these? Thanks
Jeff S. (verified owner) –
I’ve been listening to the new wood cups on Grado SR80e headphones. First impressions are that they are made well and look very nice. Only complaint i have is with the gimbals; they have very little retention with the factory plastic rodblocks. This causes the earcups to constantly slide off the headband which of course is annoying. A solution was to put a small dab of vasoline on the rods to create resistance but ultimately I purchased their “Headband and Bracket for Grado” kit. As for sound I did notice an ever-so-slightly warmer sound as well as an equal decrease in Grado’s notorious high frequencies. Overall its worth the price if fashion is important to you with the added benefit of a very slight sonic change.