Customer Rating: 
Summary: Best mid-priced
Comment: I've had my SR60s for a few years now and still like them so much just recently I sent them back to the company for repairs after the left side quit working. For $25 Grado returned what looks suspiciously like a brand new pair. (If they're my old ones, they are immaculate and working perfectly.) For the money,I don't think you can get better full-spectrum, richly modulated headphones anywhere, and the company repays loyalty in spades.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice quality and a good price
Comment: I'm not an expert, and I only have three headphones: the one that came with my ipod, Sennheiser PX 100 and this one.
I'm really satisfied with the sound quality at this price range. I tried Bose Triport and QC 2 and another model by Kose, but I feel the sound quality of this one exceeds all of them. I also feel that it's clearer than Sennheiser PX 100, which seems to be a bit "warmer" or hazzier than SR 60.
However, this pair is obviously not for outdoor or library use, which is really a problem for me. The cord tangles and is too long and thick, and the sound leaks. I had to get used to pads since they really made my ears itch in the beginning. However, I like how you can adjust the headband.
Anyway, great sound quality at a nice price range, just don't expect you can use it outside while jogging or in a library. Simply good enough for me.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Phenomenal
Comment: These headphones are simply incredible. After reading reviews online I immediately bought one. I can confidently say that I am in no way dissapointed. The sound is incredibly clean and precise. I listen to a lot of acoustic guitar songs and each strum, each picking can be heard clearly adn beautifully. I love these headphones. The only con would be that you can't really listen to them in noisy places as it's open air headphones. Other than that its perfect.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Noise reduction would make these a 6/5!
Comment: Well, what can I say? These are one of the best headphones I've tried so far. The sound is excellent and versatile for all kinds of music. Lows, Mids, Highs, love them all! Very full and detailed sound. I listen to many music styles from Classical to Hip-Hop and I've tried many headphones.
These headphones sound pretty good right out of the box, but I made mine even better! The earpads for these headphones are made of soft thick continuous foam this makes the sound somewhat muffled. If you look at SR80, they have harder ear cushions with hole cut out in the center, looks like a doughnut. You can buy those cushions separately. I tried several of Grado headphones including SR80, and SR225. If you try these three with the same cushions there's not much difference between them in sound. At least me and my other two friends couldn't say which is which. So maybe there really is some small difference but I don't think it's worth the money difference. But cushions however do make a difference. If you put SR80's cushion onto the SR60 it makes a big difference in sound. The effect is, the base gets clearer, the highs get crispier and the overall sound separation feels like some one lifted a blanket from your speakers! The down side to those "doughnut" cushions is, that in the center is the plastic cover of the speaker. As you wear the headphones for some time the ears are pressured onto that plastic and after a short time my ears started hurting that I just couldn't take it no more. So what I came up with was a compromise. I took the pads from standard cheap headphones and placed them onto SR60 first. Standard pads are smaller so as you put them on you'll have to stretch them. Now I put the doughnut cushion on top of this one. Now you get the best of both worlds so to speak. You get the clean sound the doughnut pads deliver, and you get a cushioning in the center so your ears aren't hurt. I can wear these headphones for hours now without any problems. There is very slight muffliness occurs when you put that thin cushion on but not nearly as much as from the original thick cushions that come with SR60. However, you might find that your ears are fine with just the doughnut pads on, a friend of mine didn't see it as a problem at all. Everyone's got different ears I guess. In any case, if your ears don't feel right with new cushions this should help.
The only thing I find needs improvement is:
These headphones (and in fact this goes for all the Grado headphones) operate on open air principle. This means that the sound must travel out of headphones. When you stand next to a person listening to the Grado's you can pretty much make out words sang in the song.
And there's also no noise reduction. As with all Open headphones, if you put the headphones on you can hear everything around you almost as though you didn't have them on. If you turn on the music it blocks the outside noise more or less, but in a noisy environment like train or big city you would want some more noise reduction.
That said I still give these headphones 5/5 because I simply can't find anything better (and yes I'm looking). If Grado found some way to make these into Closed design to reduce sound leaking out/in, and maybe a bit smaller I think I would nominate them for a nobel prize :)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Headphone Under $75
Comment: I have owned many expensive headphones, mostly years ago when I could afford to spend hundreds of dollars on such things. Now I have a family and am on a budget. So now I have less than $100 dollars to spend on a new set. I have to choose between the SR-80 and SR-60's and a few by other Sennheisers. I decided to go with the less expensive SR-60's and it turns out they are as good as or better than the much more expensive competitors from Grado and Sennheiser. I think to get any significantly better sound from Grado, you must go up to the SR-225, at least in my opinion.
I actually like their styling. Unlike my Skull Candy Skullcrushers I bought earlier, they look and feel well-built.
They have excellent mids and highs, and despite what a few say, they have excellent bass. Anything with "better" bass to me sounds artificial. These are very "sweet" sounding and natural sounding headphones with an excellent construction quality.
You won't regret buying these GREAT HEADPHONES!
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