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Joseph Grado
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It is with a heavy heart for the Grado family to say that Joseph Grado,
founder of Grado Labs and inventor of the stereo moving coil phono cartridge,
passed away this morning at the age of 90. In the early 1950s, Joseph began
using the skills he gained as a master watchmaker to start crafting phono
cartridges on his kitchen table in Brooklyn, New York. He went on to clear
out the Grado family fruit store around the corner and in 1953, Grado
Laboratories was born.
Joseph guided Grado until 1990 when he passed the torch to his nephew, John
Grado, and our headphone era began. For the past two decades, he enjoyed
living in South Carolina building and tinkering with anything to do with
audio. The Grado family holds Uncle Joe in the highest regard, and without
him, not only would we still be working in a fruit store, but we would have
never started making headphones.