Archives for August 22, 2016

Philips X2/27 Open Over-Ears for $219

The open-back over-ear Philips Fidelio X2 are currently going for $219 with free shipping with a limit of five per customer at Amazon by Amazon actual. Check the various forums and reviews if you are worried about the potential “Gibson issues” after the Woox to Gibson transition.

Speaking of reviews, this is a 10-headphone comparison review including the X2 at Amazon, long enough that a commenter there complained it was “a book” and was promptly shut down by “book readers” with a “0 out of 68” favorability rating on that particular comment.

August 22, 2016 Filed Under: headphones Tagged With:

Sennheiser HD800 S for $1604

The weight of the tears from the removal of the Sennheiser HD800 S from the Innerfidelity Wall of Fame perhaps weighed down its price, now down to $1604 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon actual.

PS: the tears part is purely dramatization, the discount looks like a computer-generated price-match of a couple of marketplace sellers offering it for the same price.

August 22, 2016 Filed Under: headphones Tagged With: ,

Used Schiit Valhalla 2 Amp for $311

And now a breezy stroll down Amazon Warehouse Deals, starting with the Schiit Valhalla 2 Headphone Amplifier going for $311 in “Used – Very Good” condition (minor cosmetic imperfections, damaged original packaging) from Amazon Warehouse Deals actual. The new condition price at Amazon is $379, while at Schiit’s website is $349 plus mandatory shipping (unless you can pick up from SoCal).

August 22, 2016 Filed Under: amps and dacs Tagged With: ,

TEAC UD-301 Balanced DAC/amp for $319

Price-checking is always a good idea, Massdrop (MD) does not always have the lowest prices. Case in point, the TEAC UD-301 Balanced DAC/amp just launched at MD with the lowest possible price under the offer $350 shipped, but it’s handily defeated at the moment by Amazon actual offering it for $319 with free shipping. It is possible that Amazon actual’s price is an automated price-match of the two marketplace sellers offering it for the same price, so I don’t know how long this will last.

Product details and specs at TEAC’s website. Click on the little tabs to see Specs, Images, Downloads, etc. Screenshot below since they are hard to spot while casually looking at that page. I’m not the only one with bad web design skills 🙂

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August 22, 2016 Filed Under: amps and dacs Tagged With:

Wooden Omega Headphone Stand for $24

The new condition Wooden Omega Headphone Stand is currently available for $24 by a handful of marketplace sellers with the order fulfilled by Amazon, so they are Prime eligible. The three listings you see for $17 with free shipping ship directly from mainland China and they are fairly new sellers, so that’s a higher risk. You can tell this by looking at the detailed listings. For most China sellers it says so in the detailed listing but not for all of them. For those not mentioning it, the shipping estimate is a dead giveaway, if it’s over a month, it means very show shipping from China.

To cut a long story short, fulfilled by Amazon saves you a lot of potential headaches. Shipment happens from Amazon’s warehouses, and if there’s a problem, you deal with Amazon’s customer service, not the marketplace sellers.

The stand averages 4.3 out of 5 based on 163 customer reviews and has a pretty solid “review intensity ratio”, around 15:1 (the percentage of 5-star reviews vs 1-star reviews).

A tall annotated screenshot with the shipment details marked is after the jump if you are not familiar with the detailed Amazon product listings. NOTE: it may be presented differently depending on what browser you use, what device/OS, size of your viewport (size of browsing window), and whether Amazon’s computers are doing any experiments with how they display listings…

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August 22, 2016 Filed Under: accessories Tagged With: ,

Beyerdynamic DX 120 iE for $35 [MD] or $39 Now

Another earphones is now fully unlocked at the members-only shopping club Massdrop, it is the new condition Beyerdynamic DX 120 iE going for $32 plus $3~ flat shipping with about six days left to go in the offer (from blog posting date), and a mid-September 2016 shipping estimate… If you can’t wait that long, a few marketplace sellers have them for around $39.XX with the orders fulfilled by Amazon (Prime eligible)…

August 22, 2016 Filed Under: in-ears Tagged With: ,

LZ A3 Triple Hybrid IEM for $134 [MD]

With around six days to go (from today’s posting date), the LZ A3 Triple Hybrid IEMs are now fully unlocked for $130 plus $4~ flat shipping. Two color choices are available at checkout, and pictures of everything that’s included are in the listing. They get a 1-year warranty from Massdrop. Shipping estimate is mid-to-late September 2016, so as with most MD offers, patience is a virtue, it’s like the opposite of Google Express and Prime shipping 🙂

August 22, 2016 Filed Under: in-ears Tagged With: ,

[DEAD] Tuesday’s Offers: JBL, Noontec, Monster, Wood earphones, Etc

These daily deals expired…

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August 22, 2016 Filed Under: headphones