you should write a script to email you a reminder every 10 minutes.

Or get a lacky to do it

or have the lackey write the script!

Make sure you fire him after he automates his job.

Make sure you fire him after he automates his job.

Or just hit him with a shovel.

you should write a script to email you a reminder every 10 minutes.

I think your frequency is painfully too frequent, Mr. ridiculous man.

I think having any predictable frequency at all is kind of useless. I'd grow numb to it. Or shut the script off. Mr. Slightly Less Ridiculous Man.

Make sure you fire him after he automates his job.

don't make it public!

No worries -- I have no lackeys, anyway. So they're safe. By being non-existent.

Reading the first part of his biography is nothing short of amazing. The guy is a genius. Wonder his ears are still as good as they used to be still....I wish I own a HP1000 now. The HP2 I heard was such superb sounding.

At $1,250 plus shipping, I think I'll stick with the original drivers.

Quick update. On a complete leap of faith I decided to send in my hp1000 for the upgrade back in January. I called up joe and he was actually a little more open about details than what I remember in the past. He mentioned a new cable, and something along the lines of taking apart the headphones and remachining the enclosures to alter the porosity/density of the enclosures or something like that. I called a month ago and he told me to be patient or he was more than happy to send the cans and check back.

Just spoke with joe today and he was finishing up my upgrade and he would send them by the end of the week. He also tells me I should be glad I waited as he recently came up with a new earpad design. He said something about finding a way to modify the foam that increased the output dramatically and increase detail "400%". Regardless of the joe Grado mumbo jumbo I am excited.

I called up joe and he was actually a little more open about details

400% more open ...

that's a lot of mumbo jumbo, though, joe.

For sure. There was more but it got lost in the mumble jumble.

I had just finished the design of my latest laboratory tone arm and was enjoying the reduction of my work load to a half day ( 12 hours a day ).

What to do with all my spare time ??

I love this quote. Truly the old school mentality of hard work that I see in so many older gentlemen in my field of work. That is lost on my generation (including myself).

Ryan, I thought yours already had the upgrade? Wasn't already there a magical substance applied to the cups, and upgraded cable? Or was that only the 100% improvement upgrade?

When I sent it in previously it was a repair, as one of the drivers was blown. He put in new drivers, but everything was the same, and he happened to apply new magic goop to the inside of the enclosure. This recent upgrade is what I believe people call the "i" upgrade and includes a new cable and the enclosures are modified further beyond goop to the best of my knowledge - on the phone he said it involves refinishing the enclosures to change the porosity of the metal or something along those lines Mumba jumbo etcetera. And apparently he has a new earpad design or modification.

I believe he uses the urine of Ethiopian baby goats to etch the metal, and the semen of a Madagascar Lima to change the porosity of the foam ear pads.

Huh. Well, I'd still love to hear it. Semen or not.

Well it is mil spec semen.

That would be sea men.

Hey Ryan,

Have you recieved your phones back from Joe yet. I amtempted to send in my HP2s which are in great shape.

But Joes age & health make me a little hesitant .

As of a week ago ryan was still waiting for his headphones.

Thanks or checking in Tom. Nate is correct. Your concerns about joes health are legitimate, and I would recommend not sending them in unfortunately.

That was my thoughts,Let us know when you get them back,hopefully soon.

That was my thoughts,Let us know when you get them back,hopefully soon.

Rumors of Joe's death have been greatly exaggerated...

Since Steve Guttunberg's tweet. There have been "Joe Grado is dead" threads popping up all over the place- headfi; Steve Hoffman's; Audiokarma...

Joe is alive and annoyed by people spreading rumours without checking the facts first. It was his older brother Angelo who passed away, aged 92.