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The Adorama daily deal for Saturday May 6 in 2023 is the new condition wired closed-back over-ear AKG K92 headphone, designated of the studio kind, going for $30. It only comes with one accessory, a 1/4″ screw-on adapter. It has a 2-year AKG warranty.
Reminder that AKG is part of Harman, which in itself is part of Samsung 🙂
If you are a fan of the V-Moda bluetooth closed-back over-ears, good for Saturday April 29 in 2023, thanks to a $110 off automatic add-to-cart coupon, Adorama is offering the V-Moda Crossfade 2 Wireless Competition Edition bundle for $110 after the coupon is factored in! This includes:
+ the headphones (duh!)
+ BoomPRO microphone
+ SpeakEasy DAC/amp lightning cable
+ Exoskeleton carry case
+ cables
+ customization voucher (to get customized “shields” from V-Moda)
+ 1-year limited warranty
For a limited time, Monoprice is offering 20% off on most things on their website using coupon code MP20. Too many audio-related items for me to check individually, but you can check for any items you may be interested in, eg their Monolith line or many of their budget cables, accessories and such.
One budget item to highlight that is on sale and drops even further with the coupon is the new condition Monoprice Sync Bluetooth Headphone with apt-X Low Latency dropping from $20 to $16 after the coupon code!
Note that this charges via micro-USB. The listing says it is bluetooth 4.2 but one of the three customer reviews says this is bluetooth 5.0.
If you are looking to get the AKG K371 headphones or want a “podcaster kit”, for Saturday April 22 in 2023, one of the Adorama deals of the day is an AKG Podcast Kit for $99 that includes:
If you think that headphone deals have become more boring and predictable, well, here’s something out of left field for this special day that is April 20 in 2023!
It’s a three item bundle at B&H Photo for $850. For that, you get:
Yes, that’s a professional tripod for photography and video and such 🙂
Happy April 20 to all that celebrate it! We have an Earth Day type of a deal actually today, sort of, it’s a refurbished headphone, it is the Meh daily deal for 4/20/23, the refurbished JLAB Studio PRO Over-Ear closed-back bluetooth headphones with the “50 Hour” it in its name. Or for those who prefer proper product names, it is the ZHBASTUDIOPRORBLK4-B 🙂
The price is $20 plus shipping. If you are a paying Meh member, shipping is free. Sort of their version of “Prime”.
They charge via USB-C and come with a 90-day warranty. Bluetooth is version 5. I wouldn’t buy anything bluetooth that is under 5 ~ unless you are buying a specific product for a specific reason.
Trigger warning! This post mentions Beats headphones with bluetooth and ANC 🙂
One of the current featured deals at Amazon is a sale on new condition Beats Studio 3 ANC/BT Over-Ear headphones (with the Apple W1 chip) for $170. They are available in seven color schemes. Limit three per customer. Not sure if the limit is per color, or overall. You can find out in the shopping cart if that’s an issue!
As of the time of writing they average 4.7 out of 5 based on 33,500+ customer ratings at Amazon. Obviously there are not enough head-fi members rating headphones at Amazon 😉
Adorama loves audio for Thursday 3/30/23, their daily deals have two audio-themed products:
+ BOSE 700 ANC/BT over-ear closed-backs for $329
+ M-Game Solo USB Streaming Mixer and Audio Interface with LED Lighting for $99
Woot Plus are the longer running offers at Woot that run for a few days instead of just 24 hours. One such sale is running until the end of March 2023 (or earlier if sold), it is a Yamaha Audio sale that includes two head-related products, in new condition, with a 1-year Yamaha warranty:
+ Premium Sound True truly-wireless for $30
+ such an original model name 😉
+ YH-E700A ANC/BT closed over-ears for $130
+ two color options
+ up to two per customer
+ BT 5, apt-X adaptive
+ carrying case
+ USB-C charging
This week only (remember every blog post here has a date associated with it), the Headphones dot com website is having a FOCAL flash sale where you automatically get a 20% off discount. The price you see is the price you pay!
If you want to get your hands head on some of the audiophile-discussed-and-debated headphones but don’t want to pay full price, the Headphones.com online shoppe is currently running an open box sale featuring models from Focal, Hifiman, Audeze, Meze, Moondrop, Hennheiser (typo intended?), and more.
There’s two pages of offerings, too many to list here individually.
Headphones.com is the online shop that is running/sponsoring the popular among enthusiasts “The Headphone Show” YouTube channel, where, ICYMI, they just posted a video with Dr Sean Olive of House Harman and Crinacle, YouTube-embedded below:
Planar time again, of the open-back variety. As of the time of writing Adorama is offering the new condition wired open-back over-ear planar-magnetic Hifiman HE6se V2 for $599. You can also get it at this price by Adorama thru Amazon…
While the hype machine is revving up for the new HD 660 S2 [see our in-stock alert], Sennheiser is also quietly giving practical discounts on some of its other open-back headphones. Case in point, the new condition HD 599 over-ears in the ivory color-scheme is going for almost $116 at Amazon by Amazon actual, with up to three per customer.
It looks like this may be a price-match of a marketplace seller, but that’s just my speculation…
For a limited time, the Adorama daily deal is the new condition semi-open over-ear AKG K240 Mark II studio headphones for $60. That’s the Mark II model. Check your favorite forums for Austria and China and other assortedly related discussions on this 🙂
Hide your e-wallets! IF you cannot wait to get your head and hands and ears on this, the highly anticipated Sennheiser HD 660 S2 open-back over-ears wired headphone is here, at the early adopter price of $600 AND more importantly it is currently in-stock and shipping at its starting price of $600 at Amazon and at B&H Photo…
Why this and why at this price over the many other options out there? This question has been answered, is currently being answered, and will also be getting answered in the future, just check your favorite audio forums, blogs, YouTubes and social media!
Speaking of the Sennheiser open-backs, let’s revisit them, if it’s the HD 560 S the one you want, it is currently going for $146 by a trio of sellers at the Amazon website, including Amazon herself and World Wide Stereo.
IF of all the Sennheiser open-back headphones it is the HD 650 the one you want, in new condition, it is on sale for a limited time for $299 at Adorama as one of their daily deals…
Why this and not the other HD options from Sennheiser or from Hifiman or from any of the other makers? well, there many and more forum threads and comment sections discussing this ab eterno 🙂
It looks like we have a sale and a price-match at the same time! The AKG K612 PRO open-back over-ear headphones are currently a daily deal sale for $129 at Adorama but at the same time, it looks like they may have been price-matched at Amazon as well.
There are countless open-back options in the market these days, and countless forum posts and countless YouTube videos to help you decide 🙂
PS: speaking of AKG, for a limited time, a 25% off clip-on coupon drops the price of the good old new condition AKG K240 studio headphones from $79 to $59~ at B&H Photo…
Massdrop is celebrating Hifiman this week, and they are running special promotions on select Hifiman headphones including:
+ HE-R7DX closed for $79
+ HE-X4 planar for $100
+ HE-4XX planar for $159
+ HE-5XX planar for $179
+ Dekoni pads for HE-series for $35
An old has been resurrected because of the mic/button technology! And it’s currently on sale at Amazon. It is the mic/single-button version of the good old lightweight on-ear Panasonic RP-HT21, with an “M” appended to its name for the Mic/Remote, currently on sale for $8 at Amazon by Amazon actual with up to four per customer at the sale price.
According to Amazon’s product page, I bought the old non-mic/remote version of this about ten years ago. A blast from the past type of a featherweight headphone!
If of all the open-back dynamic over-ear headphones it is the Philips X3 the one you want, you can get it, in new condition, for a limited time, for $150 at the Amazon website, sold by marketplace seller PhotoTech and the order fulfilled by Amazon (eligible for the Prime shipping benefits).
Why this and not one of the many other open-back headphones? Well, that’s why headphone forums exist 🙂
The official Hifiman online store is having a B-Stock Clearance sale that ships to USA, EU, UK, and Canada. As of the time of writing, they have these offers:
+ HE-400-SE for $79
+ HE-4XX for $89
+ Sundara for $209
+ Edition XS for $399
+ Ananda Non-Stealth for $429
+ Ananda Stealth for $509
FURTHER DOWN that page, they have sales on new condition products, including the wired DEVA for $159, the EF-400 for $529, the wired HE-R9 for $249, and the wireless HE-R9 for $439.
EVEN FURTHER DOWN over there, they have open-box deals, 28 of them as of the time of writing…
Good until Friday 12/30/22 at 8am ET or earlier if sold out, the Musician’s Friend daily deal is a recurring offer on their website, the new condition closed-back wired over-ear Tascam TH-300X studio headphones going for $29.
They also go by other names ~ in case the design looks familiar. I believe I had a CAD variant of these once upon a time, but I recall little and less about them.
Santa is a …Monolith and it’s bringing a Monolith headphone sale at the Monoprice website that among others includes:
+ M565C planar closed over-ears for $160
+ M570 planar open over-ears for $180
+ M1060 planar open over-ears for $240
+ M1060C planar closed over-ear for $250
+ M1070 open or M1070C planar over-ears for $280 each
+ M1570 open or M1570C planar over-ears for $380 each
+ Monolith AMT headphone for $700
+ five DAC/amps of the Liquid, Cavalli and THX kind
+ speakers and subwoofers as well
+ this is a limited time sale
+ I do not know the expiration date
A utilitarian bluetooth headphone of the USB-C charging kind is the Meh daily deal for Monday 12/19/22 in the eastern time zone!
It is the refurbished with a 90-day warranty JBL Studio PRO wireless going for $20 plus shipping. It is bluetooth 5 with USB-C charging but only supports the basic audio protocols (no apt-X/AAC). It promises over 50 of wireless playback time (if the stars align ~ as usual with these type of promises).
NOTE: nothing else is included apart from a USB-C charging cable.
In new condition it currently goes for twice the price at amazon.com where you can find over 2200 customer ratings with a 4.3 out of 5 average and 66 answered questions.
Yes, I know, “Beats and Bose, they break my audiophile bones” but for a limited tine, Amazon proper is offering the new condition Beats Solo 3 bluetooth closed-back on-ears, with the Apple W1 chip, in the black and gold color-schemes, for $99, with up to four per customer. The other two colors go for more…
Good until Sunday December 11 in 2022 at 11:59pm eastern time, you can get the new condition wired Senal SMH-1200 closed-back over-ear studio headphones for $50, in your choice of three color schemes.
They come with two cables, a carry pouch, and a 3-year warranty.
The Sennheiser sale at Amazon includes many well-known non-Massdrop Sennheiser headphones, from the consumer and Momentum but also the open-back tiers! Among them you can find the plushy earpad HD-400S for $50, the open-back HD 599 SE for $90, some bluetooths, some earphones and TWs and also *drum roll* the open-back HD 560S for $150…
You can also find the HD560S for $150 at other authorized dealers such as B&H Photo and also at Adorama…
In a flash sale that ends on Thursday 11/24/22 at 10am eastern (or earlier if sold out), B&H Photo of House New York is offering the new condition “white smoke” Bose QC45 ANC/BT Over-Ears for $230 after an automatic in-cart coupon. You don’t have to type a coupon code. While this offer is running, the coupon will be added when you “add to cart”.
PS: all apologies to the “Beats and Bose, They Break My Bones” crowd 😉
Partaking in the Black Friday festivities is Philips with some of their open-back headphones at the Amazon website. Prices are as of the time of writing of this blog-post, and as always (and as with everything in life), they are subject to change at any time and for any reason 🙂
+ three models on the same listing:
++ SHP-9500 for $63~
++ SHP-9600MB for $75
++ SHP-9600 for $85
+ Fidelio X2HR for $125
+ on the same listing, Fidelio L2 for $64
+ renewed Fidelio X3 for $105 by marketplace seller (not Amazon proper) for $105
+ customer reviews say this renewed option does NOT include the balanced cable
+ new condition Fidelio X3 from the usual suspects (“Phototech”) for $155
+ “USED – Like New” from “Phototech” direct for $100
This last one is not open-back, but I didn’t want to create a separate post for it, it’s the new condition Fidelio L3 ANC/BT over-ears going for $150.
Sennheiser time at the Amazon Black Friday, a little bit of a deep cut type of a headphone. It is the new condition Sennheiser HD25 Special Edition going for $100. This is a closed-back wired on-ear headphone of course.
At the moment, it is a mainstream headphone brand party at the Amazon Gold Box. The sale includes Sony, JBL, Beats, Bose, PixelBuds and GalaxyBuds, Marshall, Logitech G headsets, budget top-selling brands, and lots more.
See them all at this headphone link…
Monoprice is running another set of Black Friday sales and they include a large number of their Monolith audio products. And among those are many of their headphone and related products including:
+ M565C closed planars for $185
+ M1060 open or M1060C closed for $250 each
+ M1570 open or M1570C closed for $380 each
+ M1070 open for $320, M1070C closed for $280
+ yes, there’s a price delta here between open and closed
+ and many more, can’t list them all
Monday November 21 in 2022 has an audio theme at the B&H Photo daily deals, with a trio of them:
+ Shure SRH-840 closed-back over-ears in new packaging for $70
+ Klipsch KD-400 2-Way Active Wireless Bookshelf Speakers for $149
+ Bose Soundbar 700 for $549 after coupon cart
Now that Massdrop is making Ultrasone great again with their launch, mayhaps this recurring bundle offer from B&H Photo will get extra looks? This is a daily deal, running until 11/20/22 at 11:59pm eastern or earlier if sold out. It’s another variant of the Ultrasone x Manfrotto bundle as follows, for $850:
+ Ultrasone Panther DSD DAC Amplifier
+ Ultrasone Signature DXP Closed-Back Stereo Headphones
+ Manfrotto Carbon Fiber Twin Leg Video Tripod Legs with Mid-Level Spreader (100/75mm Bowl)
+ Manfrotto 504X Fluid Video Head with Flat Base
As to why they keep bundling these? It shall remain a mystery ~ because the answer is probably more boring than the imagination – just like LOST 🙂
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