mmm. I really like his positivity. Sometimes I feel like heās not the most detailed or nitpicky though, so I take everything he says with a grain of salt (even though heās awesome).
Then again, nothing that heās praised that Iāve tried has been bad at all.
Hey @Ohmboy, could you make the title of this thread the Grado Hemp LTD Edition and make it official? Iām gonna need somewhere to discuss these (and probably gush over them) in a few days.
Yes it was a review unit. I posted my impressions at head-fi.
So i guess if you buy these used and they come with a heavy smell of marijuana you cant really complain can you? lol
I agree with Guttenberg in his brief description of the 15-year old RS-1ā¦ makes me trust what he has to say about the Hemp headphones. I sadly can not spend on them any time soonā¦ and limited edition means I will probably have to skip them altogether.
Always a chance of used ones poping up from time to time, but I have a feeling these will be pretty rare on the used market.
Limited is a loose definition for Grado. If you are looking for exclusivity, I wouldnāt count on it. They will build as many as they can sell and more.
I hope this becomes a regulate model as it sounds great so far. I read that the $420 price was a very narow margin for them and the price would be more like $470-$500 if it wasnāt for the meme. So maybe we will we something like that in the near future and these LTD ones are like an early adopters test run type thing.
Wellā¦ I donāt care about exclusivity, truth. I am not sure their limited editions stick around all that much though. Seems like they do too manyā¦ a lot of those are gone though.
I loved the long-gone HeadFi-2 . Maybe more than the RS-1 even, though that depends on the music playing.
They have had plenty of limited editions that they donāt produce anymore. The only way of getting them is by buying used.
Limited editions mean they will make as many as they can sell and more. āLimited Editionā means they will be available for at least a year. I own the GH2ās and they were available for several months before I bought them and for several months after.
And then they stop production.
My guess is that these new one ones will be in production until Christmas and then it will take several months for the dealers to sell all their stock.
Thanks to the good people of this forum, I got in under the wire on the Focal Elegia Adorama deal at $429ā¦ still, do not need more headphones and it was not a prudent blow to my wallet. Otherwise Iād impulse buy the Hemps now! I am reassured by the estimate of at least a yearās availabilityā¦ will give more time to see reviews and comparisons hopefully. Stop my impulsiveness (which ālimitedā is meant to stoke). You have calmed me, Sir. Thanks.
Are you already a Grado fan? By that I just mean have you already heard a Grado? People tend to have a love or hate reaction to them.
Yeah, thereās no need to rush, they will be available for at least a couple months. You can wait for more reviews.
I have 16-year old RS-1 (so no āiā or āeā or, in fact, any vowel at all); I have the Head-Fi 2, aka the Head-F1-2, lol); and the Head-Fi-3. Also some Alessandros, MS-1 . (Have had and heard the SR60s and SR80s , and whatever model number their āstreet phoneā was!)
I love the three first-listed. Havenāt heard any GH or PS, though the HF-2 was a precursor to the PS500 iirc.
Cool! Gradoās are a distinct sound and not everybody gets it. I started out with the SR325eās. I liked the sound, but they were too bright for me. Then tried the PS500eās and they were too flat for me. Kept climbing the tree and ended up at the GH2ās which are Grado perfection to me.
Of course I canāt stop looking at the GS2000e/GS3000eās, which I REALLY canāt afford. 
Yeah when I got the RS-1 , I was captivated. I donāt think the PS series had been inaugurated yetā¦ or the GS- or GH- ā¦ My recollection of Head-Fi culture is that there were a lot of different tastes, but there was broadly a large Team Senn and a scrappy and oppressed Team Gradoā¦ LOL. For a long time I thoughtā¦ Sennheiser makes comfortable headphones. Didnāt really want to listen to them except maybe to sleep. (I learned to appreciate them later!). Never got over the RS-1 , to this day. And canāt afford to go āhigherā realisticallyā¦ but also now have two Focals. So a different landscape altogether ā even more so with amps. I feel old. Accurately, I guess.
You and I seem to walk the same trails. 
CCR and Black Sabbath sound great on these. Maybe its just the honey moon faze but these are defiantly NOT a disappointmentā¦ sound wise, the cable will need some real tender love and care to get out those kinks and the Grado buildā¢ is what it is. Canāt wait to do nothing but listen to these for the next few days.
Youāre gonna cost me money dammit 
Seriously, very glad to hear these first impressions, and I look forward to more.