Stacksocial is running a Pay What You Want promotion on music. Any payment over $1 gets you four titles but if you meet or beat the average ($10.62 as of the time of writing), you will receive another ten titles. All these are digital deliveries of course. The various options are described further down the page over there…

UPDATE: their semi annual sale includes among others the “Ultimate Logic PRO X Production Bundle” for $19. The bundle includes eight courses. Six of them are PRO Logic X centric, the other two are general purpose (Music theory and SongWriting).

PS: someone needs to create a course on how to pick a headphone from the Beyerdynamic DT 770/880/990 options 😉

This is a PSA! It looks like Schiit Audio is no longer selling through Amazon. Some of their listings appear to be in the process of getting hijacked by opportunist marketplace sellers, as the product name and gallery pictures get changes to random things (cables and bluetooth headphones) but the customer reviews and answered questions remain. The old listings are of interest to anyone looking for reviews and answers about potential issues and Amazon should really preserve these because that’s one of the reasons people go to their website.

So don’t be surprised if your bookmarks for these show random crap:

+ the worst of all, the SCH-13 Sys Passive Preamp has been hijacked by a bluetooth headphone that has an active listing and it is selling on the strengths of the SYS review score
+ there’s also an HTML snafu where they didn’t end the bold tag properly, so all the customer reviews on the main product page are in BOLD

+ the Uber 2 listing is a lightning cable

+ the Magni 2 listing is another lightning cable

I’m not sure how they do it. Maybe they found a loophole to hijack it by creating additional options on the root product and then taking over because the root product is inactive? Regardless, this is BAD!

PS: but the co-founders e-book continues to be available for the Kindle for $4.99 or as a paperback for $15…

We often mention Used Amazon deals here, so this is of interest if you are shopping at Amazon Warehouse Deals. Amazon is now giving them a logo and branding of their own. Their new name is “Amazon Warehouse”, which sounds perhaps more attractive to a general audience. You can see this in the screenshot below and also at the Warehouse Deals home page. It makes it easier color-wide to separate it from Amazon’s own new condition listings.

If you want a live listing to see it, there are multiple of them at the used ATH-M40x listing. That’s where the screenshot was taken above.

Amazon is notorious for experimenting with things, so you may not see it immediately. Sometimes they show changes to a subset of customers, eg based on browser, operating system, screen size, and so forth. Thus the screenshots here so you’ll know it’s coming.

This is a quick round-up of some of the non-deal blog-posts we posted recently:

+ Headphone Jack Crisis II – The Google Menace, a diary-style perma-post tracking the fallout from Google’s decision to remove the headphone jack from their Pixel 2 smartphones

+ Unboxing (text and pictures) the Jaybird Run “truly wireless” earphones

+ Unboxing (text and pictures) the M-Audio Bass Traveler portable headphone amp

+ Unboxing (text and pictures) the B&O Play Form 2i lightweight on-ears

+ List of Smartphones without a headphone jack, a tracking perma-post

+ Smartphones with Bluetooth 5, a tracking perma-post

+ coming soon: a refresh of the Headphone Tracker with the new Fall/IFA 2017 headphone models

This was a jam-packed week with lots of interesting posted around the web in the world of headphones, rounded up in our weekly This Week in Headphoolia, with a wide range of topics, from Viet-Fi, to memory card mythbusters to SBC vs Apt-X (Bluetooth) to Immersive/Binaural audio talk, to a Schiit-y tour, and the return of the Headphone Jack Crisis, 2017 Google Edition!

You can find the previous 25 installments in the Headphoolia archives. If you don’t want to miss any future installments, sign up for our Content RSS feed.

That is a separate RSS feed for this blog, which has its own Headhopne Deals RSS feed. Both are full-text feeds!

If you have any feedback on what you want included, or what you don’t want included, or any other opinions or feedback, please leave a comment here or there or use the contact form.

Put your reading glasses on, or get your bandwidth ready for some video streaming! A new edition of This Week in Headphoolia has been fully cooked, covering the week ending August 12 in 2017.

You can read all previous version in the Headphoolia archives. We have 25 installments so far and counting!

One more week is in the books as we steadily march towards 2018. And that means a new weekly round-up is ready for you to read, covering the week until August 5 in 2017.

If you missed any of our previous 20+ installments, fear not, they are not gone ~ you can find them all in the Headphoolia archives.

I am slowly but steadily ramping up content at the Content Blog with more posts. The latest addition is one of our customary text-and-pictures useful unboxing posts (no annoying audio/video) of the Sony RF-995-RK RF-Wireless headphones.

We have also launched two Tracking posts as follows:

+ Smartphones without a 3.5mm Headphone Jack

+ Smartphones with Bluetooth 5 support which got more complicated now since we now also have “conditional” entries (smartphones that will support Bluetooth 5 once Android 8.0 gets released).

Another week is gone, and this means a new edition of our This Week in Headphoolia is up, a semi-humorous (attempt) at a round-up of the week that was in the world of headphones. The story of the week was perhaps the official farewell of the iPod Nano and Shuffle. But fear not Shuffle fans who happen to also be Spotify subscribers, there’s a Shuffle-like device for Spotify users 🙂

If you missed any of the previous editions, fear not, they are waiting for you in the Headphoolia archives. Time sure does fly, we’ve been doing these for half a year already (!).

A new week is in the books, and we have a new weekly “e-zine round-up”, a new This Week in Headphoolia with more fallout from the Sony MDR-Z1R measurefefe, two high profile reviews of the Mr Speakers AEON, an AudioQuest factory tour, a THX update, and lots and lots of new reviews, especially of earphones.

If you missed any previous editions, all 19 previous installments are waiting for you to revisit at any point in time.

Another year flew by, and Prime Day 2017 is almost upon us! This year it starts six hours earlier, the sales will start rolling out at 9pm Eastern on Monday 7/10/17, and continue throughout Tuesday 7/11/17 which is the actual Prime Day. The party will wind down at 3am Eastern on Thursday.

Just like last year, we’ll keep track of as many of the sales as we can throughout the 30-hour period!

It’s Sunday PM, and that means, a new This Week in Headphoolia has just been posted. There’s new FOCAL consumer headphones, a new discussion on neutral headphones, and many reviews and first impressions of various headphones and assorted devices.

For all previous editions, check the Headphoolia archives. Please leave comments at the appropriate posts for feedback, corrections, suggestions, recommendations, etc. These are created for YOU, so your feedback can help shape and change them 🙂

Hooray! I’ve finished earlier this weekend and a new This Week in Headphoolia round-up has been posted. Two of the biggest stories of the week are sort of interrelated, significantly differing Sony MDR-Z1R measurements, and a new research paper finding NO correlation between the a headphone price and its headphone frequency response.

This our 17th edition already! You can find all the previous ones in the Headphoolia archives. You will also find all the future ones there, but you can only read the future ones in the future 🙂

With time to spare before Sunday night, our weekly round-up from the world of headphones is up, covering the time between our previous update and today. You can check the previous 13 installments as well (wow, I posted 14 of them already!) in the Headphoolia archives.

If you have any feedback on what you like to see featured or not, or anything else, including grammourr and spielling police corrections, please feel free to leave comments at the relevant posts 🙂

The stream ended but you can re-watch it at any time on YouTube (without the Live Chat which YouTube does not record ~ the benefit of watching it LIVE).

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Radio Shack stores are closing, so you may find some clearance headphones and accessories (cables, adapters, etc) at good prices. Keep in mind, Radio Shack does not carry “audiophile” products, so you are more likely to find popular consumer brands along with their own house brands (eg Auvio). Prices and availability may vary by store, so there’s a big YMMV on this.

Surprise! It’s still Saturday but somehow I managed to complete this week’s This Week in Headphoolia round-up! Hooray! It is ready to go, waiting for you to checkout. It has the usual mix of news and reviews and “learnings” 🙂

You can also check previous installments in the Headphoolia archives. Somehow we managed to have 12 editions already!

A new installment of our Weekly Round-UP of the world of headphones is up! This is Episode #11 of “This Week in Headphoolia” covering the week ending Sunday May 7 (2017). We have the usual assortment of reviews (text and videos), news-bytes, some “learnings”, and even some attempts to bring humor to the world of audiophiles that at times can be rather humor-resistant 🙂

Another week went by, and so we have another weekly round-up, the new This Week in Headphoolia #10 covers up to Sunday 4/30/17, and includes the Sennheiser HD 820 leak, an assortment of reviews, an equalizing tutorial, another detailed CanJam report, and more… You can also check all previous installments in the Headphoolia archives…

April Fool’s Day is upon us, which makes this big headphones sub-reddit thread all the more curious. According to the very serious sounding and acting thread over there, discussion of headphones with an MSRP of $200 or less is banned from the sub-reddit. The reasoning of that is to cut back on entry-level and newbie talk and focus more on “audiophile” products.

It’s already April 1st in some parts of the world and Reddit is a global website. On the other hand, this looks like a serious attempt, offending messages to “rule 10” are getting deleted, lists of ineligible headphones are being produced, and such.

What do you think? It looks like a 50-50 to me but either way, we will know for sure on April 2nd 🙂