Archives for April 13, 2016

Sports Bundle of Star Wars Headphones (2nd Generation) for $90

The Star Wars fever continues and if you caught the bug, there is a Sports bundle version of the second generation of the officially licensed Star Wars headphones made by 50 Cent’s SMS Audio. This particular sports bundle is the Chewbacca edition, and it includes the standard items (Chewbaccaized (verb) headphones, case, poster, sticker, cable, cleaning cloth) along with two extra items that define the Sports bundle: a Nike Dri-Fit t-shirt and two pairs of Star Wars socks. This goes for $90 with free shipping, sold by a marketplace seller with the order fulfilled by Amazon. Limit three sets per customer.

I’m not sure any of the included items would fit the actual Chewbacca, but then again, he’s not the one who’s going to be buying them 🙂

Even though they are officially licensed, they are not tuned for listening to the John Williams soundtracks. They are a licensed version of 50 Cent’s SMS Audio on-ears which are closed-backs tuned for today’s popular and bass-flavored music. Think “Animal Ambition” 🙂

April 13, 2016 Filed Under: headphones Tagged With: ,

AKG K99 Semi-Open for $30

The semi-open AKG K99 studio headphones (one of seemingly dozens of studio-ish models in the AKG line-up) is on sale for a limited time for $30 at B&H Photo. Shipping is free if your order totals $49 or higher. For orders under $49, shipping is additional. There’s always cables and bags and adapters and other accessories and such to help you get over $49 for the free shipping.

April 13, 2016 Filed Under: headphones Tagged With:

Grace Design x Massdrop m9XX DAC/Amp for $500

Another Massdrop exclusive, currently fully unlocked (lowest price during a particular offer promotion) is teh Grace Design x Massdrop m9XX DAC/Amp going for $500 with free shipping. It will ship in mid-May 2016. Specs, close-up of the inputs/outputs, and a link to the user manual are all available at the product page over there. The offer ends in about 7 days from today (with “today” being the posting date here, not the day you are reading this).

April 13, 2016 Filed Under: amps and dacs Tagged With: ,

Massdrop x AKG K7XX Red Edition for $200

They are back and with a Red color scheme running throughout them (but the main color remains black), it is the AKG K7XX Red Edition, a Massdrop x (exclusive) sold over there for $200 with free shipping. Shipment estimate is early May 2016. This ends in about six days from today or if the available quantity is sold out (nearly 300 available as of blog-post time).

You can’t get this at Amazon through other sellers (the ones who have it charge 1.5x more than Massdrop), but you can get the AKG M220 (think K240 reborn) for around $70.

April 13, 2016 Filed Under: headphones Tagged With: ,

GVDV Under Desk Headphone Holder for $8 or $10 (holds two)

If you like under the desk headphone holders that hold on to the desk with adhesive, the GVDV Under Desk Headphone Holder goes for $8 (holds one headphone) or $10 (holds two ~ the Type B in the listing). This is sold by the maker (GVDV Direct) with the order fulfilled by Amazon, so a Prime membership gets it to your door for free even if you only buy one. Together these two holders average 4.9 out of 5 based on 43 customer reviews. Note however that a number of the reviews received the item for free in exchange for a review ~ per the review disclaimers over there. You can filter the reviews if you only want to see reviews for Type-A (holds one) or Type-B (holds two).

UPDATE: there are appear to be a couple of other similar looking holders under the Vogek brand – you can find them all in the New Releases list.

April 13, 2016 Filed Under: accessories Tagged With: ,