Archives for July 19, 2020

Monday: Beats Solo 3, various JBLs, Etc

Happy Monday July 20 in 2020 because it’s raining headphones at the daily deals today!

At Best Buy, the headliner is the new condition closed-back on-ear bluetooth Beats Solo 3 going for $150. Just make sure your head-fi friends don’t see it while you are live-streaming or when you pictures of your other gear 😉

Two different offers have headphones at the Woot.com. Under the main Woot there’s a JBL sale that includes the new condition Free X truly-wireless for $40, while under Electronics there’s the new condition JBL Tune 600-BT-NC, which as the name suggests it is a bluetooth and ANC combo. It is of the on-ear kind though. And only dressed in blue…

Those shopping in the EU, Amazon Germany is offering as their headliner deal du jour the new condition Anker SoundCore Liberty 2 PRO truly wireless for 100 euro. Anker really needs to clean up their headphone naming scheme 🙂

July 19, 2020 Filed Under: Uncategorized

Sunday: Jaybird Tarah for $30, 1-Year Prepaid TIDAL for $65 [not the high-res], Etc

Sunday is here and the Best Buy dailies have two audio-interest products. First up, the new condition Jaybird Tarah bluetooth earphones [necklace style] going for $30 [averages 4/5 on 600+ customer ratings as of the time of writing]…

Then for prepaid music listeners, you can get a 1-year prepaid TIDAL Premium music subscription for $65 for the first year [cannot append to an existing live subscription]. This comes out to a very nice $5.5~ per month. Note that this is the standard resolution service, similar to Spotify, Apple Muzak, etc. Their Hi-Res service costs more and it is not included in this offer…

Elsewhere, at the NewEgg Daily Shockers you can get the new condition bluetooth (with a battery block type thing) Pioneer SE-CL5=BT earphones for $15…

Samsung couldn’t just stand having simple names for their truly-wireless, so they have now “Galaxified” them. One of the Amazon deals of the day is the new condition Galaxy Buds+ Plus truly-wireless going for $140 with free US shipping. These come with a Fast Charge wireless chargepad with a cooling fan. One per customer at the sale price. As of the time of writing, they average 4.7 out of 5 based on 170+ customer ratings…

UPDATE: not daily deals, but I didn’t want to create a separate post for them, Woot is running another Staff Picks sale, running until 7/29/20 [or earlier if sold out ~ and they do sellout] and it includes two headphones:

+ JBL Live 400 bluetooth on-ears for $45
+ Sony MDR-NC7 ANC on-ears for $45
+ SOL REPUBLIC Jax 1-button wired earphones for $13
+ eMedia FD05107 Piano Keyboard Starter Pack For Dummies for $80
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PRO TIP: you can use a music keyboard as part of your headphone testing. I have been doing this ever since I got my previous music keyboard. Now that I upgraded from Casio to a higher Yamaha model, even more so 🙂

July 19, 2020 Filed Under: in-ears, truly wireless Tagged With: , , ,