Apogee GROOVE + Grado SR80E

Whether you're building your FLAC file collection or subscribing to a premium music streaming service, you are investing in a higher quality listening experience. Groove unlocks the full potential of that experience, revealing definition, clarity and details like you have never heard before.

Hear every detail of your music with outstanding sound quality anywhere and anytime, with the Apogee Groove portable USB DAC and headphone amp. Loaded with an ESS Sabre digital-to-analog converter and up to 24-bit/192kHz resolution, the Groove interface is the perfect solution for critical listening on your laptop. Sweetwater's Sales Engineers have recommended Apogee's portable interfaces for years as solid solutions for high-quality portable monitoring, and the ultra-compact Apogee Groove brings you stellar D/A conversion and USB convenience in the most portable design yet.

Whether you're producing tracks in a hotel room on your laptop, auditioning a mix away from your studio, or any other situation that requires high-quality audio playback, you'll be well served with the Apogee Groove portable USB DAC and headphone amplifier. You get some of Apogee's best-sounding conversion with the simplicity of two buttons for volume control. And because it's powered via USB, just keep the Apogee Groove in your laptop bag and you'll always have studio-quality headphone monitoring within reach.

If you're in the market for a new pair of audiophile headphones without breaking the bank, the Grado SR80e headphones are tough to beat. These headphones are a an upgrade over one of the finest headphones ever produced with an all new driver design and new resonant distortion dampening polymer. Grado specially designed these truly excellent headphones with new drivers and durable plastic housings to move air and react to sound vibrations in a way that all but eliminate transient distortions, ensuring vibrant, lifelike sound quality.

Designed and built at the Grado headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, the SR80e headphones feature an open-back design that produces a perfectly balanced soundstage. The new 4 conductor cable gives you a connection quality to match that of the actual headphones. The signal flows easily over the cable to reproduce sound with greatly improved, tight control of the highs a lows of your music. These headphones give you every bit of the midrange that you love, the bass you crave and the details you never knew your music had.