Archives for August 30, 2019

15% off Audio & Sound gear with Stacksocial coupon

For a limited time, most likely part of the Labor Day festivities, coupon code SAVE15SOUND gets you 15% off the audio and sound gear at the Stacksocial website

Monoprice Retro closed over-ears for $26 w/FS

If you don’t want to wait for the Samson and Superlux variants to go on sale on their own, Monoprice is here to help because their website is offering the new condition Monoprice Retro closed over-ear headphones for the very specific price of $25.69 with free US standard shipping for a limited time only.

The headphones average 4.5 out of 5 based on 160+ customer reviews at the Monoprice website. I haven’t looked for comparisons between these and the Superlux/Samson variants, so your favorite forum and search engine are your friends…

NOTE that their non-detachable cable is nearly 10 feet long (three meters)…

For the speed readers out there, this is the closed back model. Not to be confused with a semi-open variant. We have a text-and-pictures unboxing here of the semi-open model, the Samson SR-850. A closer look at the earcup shells easily distinguishes the closed from the semi-open…

And with all that, we reach the conclusion of this blog post 🙂

Friday: SteelSeries Arctis 5 (2019 Edition) for $69

A computer gaming sale is the theme of the day for Friday 8/30/19 at the amazon.com Gold Box daily deals and of headphone interest, they are offering the new condition SteelSeries Arctis 5 (2019 Edition) for $69 with free shipping in the black color scheme with up to two pairs per customer at the sale price. This is an RGB Illuminated Gaming Headset with DTS Headphone:X v2.0 Surround and it can be used on PCs and PlayStation 4.

NOTE that when you are reading the customer reviews, you have to dig inside and filter them for this particular model because on the same root Amazon product page they have a a variety of other Arctis gaming headset models…