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The Wooden Headphones Club meets again at Massdrop where they are offering their own “x Fostex TH-X00 Headphones” for $400 with free shipping. The offer runs for the next seven days and will ship late January 2017, which is fairly fast for MD standards. They ship from Massdrop, so from the looks of it, they may already have these in their warehouse/facilities (my speculation; I have no clue).
PS: these are dynamic driver headphones, planar is not everything despite their increasing popularity 🙂
These daily deals expired…
Tuesday is over, and so are its daily deals…
More used action, the closed-back on-ear SMS Audio Street by 50-Cent are available in the white-blue color scheme for $22.50 plus $3.75 flat shipping at Adorama.com. I listened to one of these variations, they sounded very closed and of course bassy. As expected 🙂 These are listed as “Used – Excellent” condition.
Not to be confused with their more famous cousins the semi-open SR850, the SR950 is a closed-back over-ear headphone, still an “homage” to the AKG studio headphones, currently offered in new condition for $24 with free shipping at Adorama.com. They average 4.3 out of 5 based on 57 customer reviews over there.
I picked up their “cousin”, the SR850 during a previous sale, they come in a cardboard box with no accessories. These too are in my “review list”. Perhaps I should publish a review list, so I can be “shamed” into making progress 🙂 Regardless, here’s the picture:
The Sony XBA-BT75 Bluetooth In-Ears are currently available in “Used – Fair condition” for $21 plus $4~ flat shipping at Adorama.com. Check reviews for this if you are not familiar.
You can get these for less from the Chinese markets with long shipping times, but if you don’t want to deal that and potential for customs, especially if you are a Prime member, the KZ ATE in-ears are currently offered for $13 by a marketplace seller with the orders fulfilled by Amazon. These too have their hype-train 🙂
As of a 1/16/17 recheck, this is sold-out. Used supplies are very limited (often one unit), so when they are gone, they are gone until more used options appear (trade-ins, returns, store demos, etc)…
The iFi Micro iCAN SE headphone amp is currently available in “Used – Demo condition” for $194 plus $7.55 shipping at Adorama.com.
This was the first in a series of back-to-back posts after going through their used headphones inventory.
As of 1/16/17 recheck, this sold out… The Audioquest Dragonfly Red USB DAC/amp goes for $200 in new condition, but if you prefer used, you can get it in “Used – Excellent” condition for $154 plus $6.75 shipping at Adorama.com. Used products from their website come with a 30-day return policy and a 90-day warranty from Adorama.
Monday is over, and so are its lightning deals…
Popular with some Cylons, the Chrome Limited Edition of the Beyerdynamic T90 open-back over-ear headphones is on sale in new condition for $239 with free shipping by BuyDig’s eBay store. Over 500 units got sold so far, and you can buy as many as you want (limit is up to 50 per eBay account).
If you can’t wait for the next lightning deal or big sale for Brainwavz pads, at the moment, their Hybrid Memory Foam PU and Velour Earpads, in the black color scheme, are under $20, going for $19.50, fulfilled by Amazon, with Brainwavz being the seller. Check the 260+ customer reviews for ideas on what headphones they fit and what they won’t.
This was a lightning deal for a couple of times for $200, but if you can’t wait for a future discount, the new condition black and the blue color-schemes of the Sony MDR-100ABN bluetooth + ANC are currently on sale for $228 with free shipping by Amazon actual with a limit of up to three per customer. These average 4 out of 5 based on 150+ customer reviews.
The new condition Bose SoundSport In-Ears are on sale for $65 with free shipping by marketplace seller “uShopMall” through the Newegg website… On the other hand, if you prefer buying from more well-known sellers, you can get it for $85 by Amazon actual… Or wait for future discounts…
Single-figures action now, the new condition Rosewill RHTS-11002 earphones are on sale for $9 with free shipping at NewEgg by NewEgg actual with a limit of up to 20 units per customer. Sale ends Monday night. They average 4 out of 5 based on 162 customer eggs (okay, reviews).
On the RF wireless (not-bluetooth) front, the new condition Sony MDRRF985RK is on sale for $68 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon actual with a limit of up to three units per customer. This averages 4 out of 5 based on nearly 2000 customer reviews.
Note however that Sony revealed a new model at CES 2017, the MDR-RF-995-RK. Not a lot of details on the new one yet.
Since my last check, a number of products got unlocked (=lowest price during a particular group-buy period over there), so here they are in a round-up post:
This lightning deal expired…
This 6-hour lightning deal expired… Good until 9:29pm ET tonight, the new condition MEE Audio Pinnacle P1 in-ears go for $159~ with free shipping. The price before the sale was $199 last night.
This daily deal expired…
This daily deal expired, but it is recurring every few days…
These lightning deals expired…
The closed-back wood on-ear Thinksound ON2 is currently available in “Used – Good” condition (cosmetic imperfections; damaged original packaging) for $93 by Amazon Warehouse Deals and for $99~ in “Used – Very Good” condition by AWD as well.
The JLab Epic 2 bluetooth earphones are on sale at the moment in all three color schemes, in new condition, for $80 with free shipping by JLab with the orders fulfilled by Amazon (Prime eligible). They share the same reviews pool with other JLab models, so you have to drill down to the individual reviews per color to get a good picture of how they are doing.
It’s back on sale again, matching the Holiday Shopping Season 2016 price of $99 with free shipping, it is the new condition Beyerdynamic DT770 (16 ohm) closed-back over-ear, offered at this price by Buydig’s eBay store. Limit up to five units per customer.
I just checked-upon some of the upcoming and out-of-stock headphones in our newly-updated Headphone Tracker, now with CES 2017 headphones added, and it looks like we have one model that is back in-stock, it is the Plantronics BackBeat PRO 2 SE (SE = Special Edition) going for $250 with free shipping. This is competing in the “BT + ANC Over-Ear” segment that has been received renewed focus from many manufacturers.
The Massdrop-Sennheiser ship (okay, this is not a TV show, relationship) has a new product. Going live for the first time on Tuesday 1/17/17 at 9am Eastern time is a brand new gaming headset, the “Massdrop x Sennheiser PC37X” which is based on Sennheiser’s existing PC 373D model.
The Massdrop model’s price will be $120, while the current price of the existing PC 373D is twice that, so while it may not be HD-6XX levels of crazy, it may get busy and bumpy.
NOTE that the shipping estimate is mid-March 2017, that’s two months away. Since this is a collaboration with Sennheiser, you get the 2-year warranty, with Senn’s blessings.
Focus Camera is offering the new condition open-back over-ear Beyerdynamic DT990 Limited Edition PRO 250 ohm (All Black, Straight Cable) for $140 everywhere (on their website, eBay, Sears, Jet, Rakuten, Walmart, Amazon), but the safest place to buy it from Focus at the moment is fulfilled by Amazon. This means they ship from Amazon’s facilities (and Prime 2-day eligible for members), and if you have any issues or problems, you deal with Amazon’s customer service and payment system instead of directly from Focus).
PS: does anyone have a complete collection of all the variations of the Beyerdynamic DT 770-880-990 including the limited editions? They’d need a whole wall of their own! 🙂
PS2: the whole DT990 line-up of the Limited Editions (all black) is also running at Massdrop (32 or 250 or 600 ohm) for $220 plus $8~ flat shipping.
If you can wait until early February 2017, you can score the NuForce HA-200 headphone amplifier for $200 plus $10~ flat shipping. The offer runs in the next seven days. This is the color-scheme and only 30 units are available for purchase.
The lowest “shipping now” price I could find is $250 by marketplace sellers through amazon.com.
These Friday lightning deals expired…
These lightning offers expired…
The RF product naming is typically used by non-bluetooth headphones to prevent confusion, so don’t be confused by this one. The TrebLab RF100 is a pair of bluetooth [see Wikipedia on Bluetooth frequencies and such] exercise earphones and they are currently unlocked at members-only Massdrop for $36 plus $3~ flat shipping.
They are expected to ship in early February 2017, and the offer runs for the next eight days. This model has 16 customer reviews at amazon.com while their more popular XR-series models have 2300 and 1063 customer reviews respectively. They average 4.2 to 4.6 out of 5 at Amazonia.
This version, Version I of the Headphone Tracker has been retired. But fear not, Version II has now been launched at our main website, which holds all the reference and longer posts. Version II launched in October 2017!
Knock, on wood (and your spouse-CFO’s door) to get authorization for this Massdrop offer, it is the E-MU Teak Headphones with Removable Cable going for $500 plus $20 flat shipping. You can select teak or rosewood at checkout, or go ebony for $20 more. Only 100 units are available for this promotion which runs for the next seven days (or earlier if sold out, it’s already 74% claimed as of the time of writing). It will ship early March 2017, so patience is a virtue 🙂
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