Archives for December 27, 2020

B&H Photo Daily Deals Return All Together At Once

A couple of times per year B&H Photo launches a MEGA DEAL ZONE sale. This is all their daily deals, going live all together at the same time! If there was any previously daily-deal you missed out on, this is your chance to grab it!

You can check by Brand Name or price range or by product category…

Under “PRO Audio” you will find their Senal house-brand closed-back over-studio headphones going from $45 to $60 (think along the lines of MDR-V6 and MDR-7506), the Roland CS-10EM binaural in-ears for $50, and such…

For more consumer and audiophile headphones, click on the “Mobile Electronics” sub-category. Unfortunately there is no headphones sub-tab, so you just have to browse through them OR use the Brands filter and select your audio manufacturers of interest…

I will try to go through these later today to highlight some potentially interesting headphone offerings…

Their daily deals run in 24-hour windows starting at 12:01am eastern time. Mega Deal Zones often run for more than one day, but not always. This being year-end, I’m purely speculating here, they may last until the end of the year…

December 27, 2020 Filed Under: store sale

Monoprice Year-End Clearance includes Monolith Liquid Platinum Balanced Head Amp by Cavalli for $400

The Monoprice website is having a Year-End Clearance Sale and among them they have some headphone/audio-related products.

All the headphones in the “Audio” category and all the items in the “Pro Audio” come with free standard US shipping, so I won’t repeat this in the listings below. This is for a limited time only.

Of headphone and audio interest:

+ Monolith Liquid Platinum Balanced Headphone Amplifier by Alex Cavalli for $400

+ a trio of BT-series bluetooth overons for $25 to $27
+ overons = over-ears or on-ears
+ separately, featured on their homepage the BT-205 bluetooth over-ons go for $20 w/FS and no reviews

+ AVOID: a badly reviewed truly-wireless for $30

+ NB-BT bluetooth neckband for $30

+ Monolith K-RAS Reference Series Bookshelf Speaker (one) for $160

+ and the previously mentioned 8323 bluetooth over-ears for $18

AND while we are diving into the Monoprice World, they are highlighting some of their Best of 2020 product launches which includes the new condition open-back over-ear M570 open-back planars for $200 with free standard US shipping…

December 27, 2020 Filed Under: headphones Tagged With:

Monoprice 8323 with Bluetooth Over-Ears for $18 w/FS

Headlining the Monoprice Year-End Clearance at the bottom end of the price-range, and with FREE US standard shipping is the new condition Monoprice 8323 with Bluetooth [CORRECTED LINK!] closed-back over-ear going for $18! Eighteen dollars, not 18 factorial 🙂

The bluetooth aspect of this includes apt-X support. The one-page “Quick Start Guide” PDF file linked-to from their product description points out that these have controls on the outer side of the earcup (no need to fumble for buttons at the edge of the earpads perimenter like some other models).

Just like their 8323 wired predecessor, these also have a 3.5mm audio input.

I’m not sure what the bluetooth version is, but breezing through some of the Q&A at the Monoprice website it looks like it is some version of 4.x, not 5.0.

I had the older 8323 wired-only headphones and for the price they are definitely worth it, despite being old-hype now-a-days 🙂

The only issue I had with them is that even though they expand on your head making you look like one of those robots from the 50s low-budget scifi movies, they are actually not as big-head-friendly as they look. I could just barely fit inside at maximum extension. For my head, this is about the same as a maximum extension fit in the Grado SR60e, but the Grados do not apply clamping pressure on the sides and their headband is more of a suggestion than an oppressing force 😉

December 27, 2020 Filed Under: headphones Tagged With: ,

750+ headphones in limited time Amazon Warehouse clearance

As of the time of writing over 750 headphones are participating in a limited time Amazon Warehouse Deals sale…

IF you want to see what audiophile-ish options they may have, try sorting the listing by higher price. As of the time of writing the used options include the Sony MDR-Z1R, Sendy Aiva planars, Fiio FA7, Massdrop Plus IEMs, etc…

PS: not used, but because the clock is running out on this I don’t want to create a separate post, good until Sunday at 11:15am ET, you can get the new condition iKKo Audio oh1 IEMs for $67 as one of the lightning deals for Sunday 12/27/20 at Amazon’s…

December 27, 2020 Filed Under: store sale Tagged With: