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this is the sra de Gredos next-gen version of its sr 80 prestige series on your open back headphone it replaces the SR ATI and at $99 it's easily among the best sounding headphones you can get for under $100 hi I'm David karna and welcome to another CNET headphone video review as you can see Grado has not changed the exterior design of the headphone and like its SR 80 predecessors for an on-ear style headphone it's quite comfortable and relatively lightweight in fact we found this models black foam pads more comfortable than the $295 SR 325 ease Bowl pads that apply more pressure to the outer edges of your ears my only complaint about the design of this headphone is the plug it's very sturdy but with more people using their smartphones as music playback devices Grado would have ideally made it more case friendly as it stands you may have to take off your case to plug this headphone into your smartphone's headphone jack Grado didn't totally change the sound for the new e-series but sree is a definite upgrade from the previous series sound this model is more laid-back and the bass is fuller and deeper that adds up to a smoother tonal balance before so when we compared the SRA Te with the older but more expensive SR 225 eye headphones the SRA TE sweeter sound had plenty of detail along with the deeper more powerful bass we also noted that we can listen to this headphone at fairly quiet volume levels without losing much detail audio Technica's ATH m50x makes more bass but thanks to the SR ADEs open back design its stereo imaging was more spacious and natural sounding than that Audio Technica model which has a closed back design the biggest downside to open back designs is they don't block external noise so the SR a de won't be ideal for travellers or anyone listening in noisy environments we've long been fans of grado headphones that are really impressed by the quality of the sound you get from this new $99 model if you don't need the isolation of a is back design or built-in microphone for cell phone calls it's a great headphone for the money I'm David Carr noise thanks for watching