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Headphone action at the Woot PC Accessories sale running until 11/10/21 at 11:59pm central time as follow:
+ Razer Hammerhead lightning-cable double-flange earphones for $23
+ Razer Kraken for $49, Nari for $55
+ Razer Nari Ultimate for Xbox for $130
If you are a fan of Massdrop or the specific headphones they sell, you are in luck, they are currently running an Audiophile week sale with 18 options. We break them down by product type:
Over Ears
+ 1More Triple Driver open-back for $140
+ Massdrop X Beyerdynamic DT 177X GO for $349
+ Drop + Dan Clark Aeon Closed X for $379
+ Drop + Dan Clark Aeon Open X for $399
+ Massdrop x FOCAL Elex for $549
In-Ears
+ Moondrop KXXX for $152
+ Mangird Tea for $260 (PRO TIP: you can’t make tea with these!)
+ Westone W80-V3 for $750
+ IKKO OH7 for $799
Truly Wireless
+ Anker Soundcore Liberty 2 PRO for $85
DAC/amps
+ Drop + THX AAA One linear amp for $159
+ DarkVoice 336SE OTL amp for $260
+ Drop + THX AAA 789 linear amp for $219
+ XDuoo TA-10R tube DAC/amp in red for $285
Accessories
+ Dekoni Bulletz tips for $13
+ ADV dual suspension stand for $25
+ ADV dual stand (hanger style) for $35
If you are a fan of the Dunu in-ears, good news, for November 8 in 2021, there is a sale on select Dunu IEMs at HiFiGo! Shipping is free to some countries for certain order amounts ($100+ or $300+). Check their website for details on the shipping options, too complicated to list here…
Sennheiser is running a limited time Amazon sale. This is not a daily deal, but a short term sale whose exact expiration date I do not know…
+ HD-400S closed-back wired over-ears for $50
+ we have here a text and pictures unboxing of an older model, the HD 4.20S
+ of course I unboxed the 420 model 😉
+ Momentum 3 ANC/bluetooth over-ears for $270
+ PXC 550-II ANC/bluetooth over-ears for $160
+ HD 250-BT bluetooth on-ears for $50
+ CX-80S wired earphones for $20
+ CX-300S wired earphones for $30
+ neckband bluetooth earphones, the CX-350BT for $70 and the CX-150BT for $50, in two color options each
Tuesday is a volume buy day at the Meh daily deal, it’s a 3-pack of JVC bluetooth earphones of the exercise (sweatproof) kind for $18 plus shipping [free S&H for paying Meh members – sort of like their version of Prime]…
Then at the Best Buy dailies we find the Jabra Elite Active 65t truly-wireless going for $60…
And a HEADS UP, on Wednesday, the Beyerdynamic MMX 300 (2nd generation) gaming headset will be among the NewEGG dailies. The sale price will be revealed at 12:01am pacific on Wednesday over at NewEGG’s…
A big 1More sale is headlining the Amazon USA Gold Box deal of the day running until Monday August 9 in 2021 at 11:59pm pacific time (or earlier if sold out).
There are 26 options participating, headlined by the new condition 1More Triple Driver IEMs going for $50 with free US shipping. As of the time of writing, this averages 4.1 out of 5 based on 9800+ customer ratings…
There’s only one over/on-ear option, the Spearhead over-ears with 3.5mm and microUSB audio ports going for $50 with free US shipping…
Of the rest, they have:
+ 14 truly wireless options
+ six neckband bluetooth earphones
+ five wired earphones, including the well-known Piston Fit earphones going for $8 with up to five per customer at the sale price. I have this one but have not done a write-up on it yet…
But that’s not all. There’s more headphones in other daily deals, starting with the Best Buy dailies:
+ AirPods with charging case (latest model) for $114
+ Sony WH-1000X M3 ANC/bluetooth over-ears for $200
+ SiriusXM Commander Touch Satellite Radio Receiver for $40 with FREE Portable Satellite Radio Install (by Best Buy’s GeekSquad AudioTech)
Last but not least, at the NewEGG dailies we find:
+ Anker Soundcore Spirit 2 bluetooth necklace-style earphones for $17 after coupon
+ AUKEY truly wireless BT 5.0 for $26
If Beats and Bose don’t break your audio bones (HA!) good until August 8 in 2021 at 11:59pm eastern time, you can get the new condition Bose Soundsport necklace-style bluetooth earphones for $89 with free US shipping at B&H Photo’s dailies thanks to an automatic in-cart $40 off coupon…
They have earhooks and are more of the stubby/shallow-insertion kind… But not like their older versions that did not attempt to create a seal on the ear (they have a “speaker protrusion” into the ear; they are useful like that in some situations).
UPDATE: among the Sunday Best Buy dailies they have the new conditino AUsounds AU Flex planar ANC earphone going for $100 with free US shipping…
Then we have at the Woot dailies the Airpods PRO truly-wireless earphones for $190 with flat shipping [free for Prime members]…
Portable Audio killed the Radio Star? It’s not a song but a music-gear meta-essay waiting to be written? Well, may be it has already been written. Regardless, I’m not going to be the one writing it 🙂
But we have lots of portable audio offers in the Woot Random Audio sale running until Saturday 8/7/21 at 11:59pm central {or earlier if sold out}:
A total of 25 products are participating in the sale including headphones and earphones, mostly of the “mass market” kind…
NOTE: there are too many items to check individually, some are new condition, some refurbished; I am not checking – check at the individual Woot product page for any item(s) you might be interested in…
There’s also a bundle of sorts, the AmazonBasics Gaming Headset with a separate PC desktop mixer, together for $23, up to two per customer, in new condition with a 1-year AmazonBasics warranty to boot. The price is right for accessory cannibalization? (includes one audio and one USB cable) 🙂
Also included in the random audio sale are eight name-brand truly-wireless earphones as follows:
Then we have two necklace style bluetooth earphone options (Philips ActionFits ($17 to $26) and HyperX Cloud Buds for $32).
Finally, they have four JBL bluetooth speakers of the small to smaller size…
Everybody loves Raymond Headphones in the Tuesday August 3 (2021) daily deals!
We start at the NewEGG dailies where they have the new condition Sennheiser Momentum FREE, Special Edition, a necklace-style bluetooth earphone going for $50 with free US shipping. Up to five per customer. Sold and shipped by NewEgg proper…
Next up at the Woot daily deals they have two offers:
+ Grade A refurbished Apple Airpods 2 with wired charging case and 90-day Woot warranty for $100; up to two per customer; model MVN2AM/A
+ Cystereo truly wireless earphones (BT 5), two options, $20 or $25
A world of daily deals without JBL is not possible! Case in point, at the Best Buy daily deals they have the JBL “Under Armo(u)r” Project Rock truly-wireless going for $90…
And at Amazon Germany they have a JBL and more headphone sale, prices ranging from 24 to 185 euro…
Curious about the Momentum wired in-ears? Good until Saturday 7/31/21 at 11:59pm pacific time {or earlier if sold out}, NewEgg is offering as one of their daily deals the new condition Sennheiser Momentum M2iei In-Ears for $30 with free US shipping. No promo code needed. Up to three pairs per customer. Sold and shipped by Newegg proper [not iffy marketplace sellers].
This is the nicer looking black/red color scheme with a 3-button remote. It includes a case with some cord-wrapping provision of sorts [judging by the pictures, I haven’t used these]…
Busy audio-related day at the Woot daily deals, running until Thursday 7/8/21 at 11:59pm central time [or earlier if sold out]. How so? Their main daily deal is an inaugural Tech Favorites sale that includes the following audio-related items:
If you like stubby earphones with the iOS button configuration, good until Friday 6/26/21 at 11:59pm eastern, as one of the B&H Photo daily deals you can get the new condition Sennheiser CX 2.00i earphones for $15 with free US shipping…
While these are not earbuds, they are closer to earbuds than Etymotic triple-flange brain-cell-insertion IEMs 😉
Second day in a row with a name-brand headphone at the Best Buy dailies, good until Monday 6/21/21 at 11:59pm, they have the V-Moda BassFit necklace-style earhook-style bluetooth earphones going for $50 in two color options…
And starting at 12:01am pacific time at Amazon website the Prime Day festivities will begin. This iteration will last 48 hours, two Prime Days for the price of one 😉
It is a day of headphones at the various daily deals headlined by Sennheiser once again at the NewEgg daily deals, the new condition wired M2IEI Momentum In-Ears in the black/red color-scheme with the iOS button configuration going for $36 with free US shipping, sold and shipped by NewEgg with up to five per customer. No promo codes needed for this one…
Also there, you can get a 2-pack of 32GB Samsung microSD cards for $14 with free shipping within the US…
Best Buy comes in with some headphone action at their own daily deals as follows:
+ JBL Under Armour Project Rock truly-wireless for $100
+ SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wired DTS Headphone:X v2.0 Gaming Headset for $160
And some action at the Woot dailies as well, as follows:
+ Apple AirPods Pro for $190, one per customer, 1-year Apple warranty
+ OTM Essentials Stereo USB Headset for $160
PS: don’t forget that tomorrow (Monday June 21 in 2021) is day #1 of the Prime Day 2021 sale-a-bration. I have zero advance notice of the sales, so we’ll all find out together, o/~ together for ever and ever o/~
To the NewEgg daily deals we return, good until Friday 6/17/21 at 11:59pm pacific time you can get the new condition Razer Hammerhead iOS dual-driver in-ears for $20, sold and shipped by a marketplace seller…
Meanwhile at a Samsung sale under “Electronics” at the Woot dailies they have the new condition Samsung Galaxy Buds Live truly-wireless going for $95 in two color options. Even though it’s new condition, it only gets a 90-day Woot warranty…
Last but not least, at the Best Buy dailies there is a sale of Blue Yeti headphone x microphone bundles. Blue is now owned by Logitech [purchased three years ago], that’s why you see these as a “Logitech” sale…
Meh is back in HeadphoneLandia with their Wednesday daily deal, good until 11:59pm ET of 6/9/21, the new condition JVC U-L83R neckband bluetooth/ANC earphones going for $24. Shipping is extra unless you are a paying Meh member.
V-Moda makes a surprise appearance at the Musician’s Friend daily deal, this offer is good until Thursday 6/3/21 at 8am eastern time. It is the new condition V-Moda Forze Metallo neckband-style bluetooth earphones going for $65 with free US shipping…
Good until Thursday 5/27/21 at 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] among the current set of B&H Photo daily deals is the new condition Motorola Verve Loop 200 necklace-style bluetooth earphones going for $11…
Props to Motorola for using a product name that is close to its functionality (“loop” vs truly-wireless).
Every time I mention Beats someone unsubscribes (LOL) but what can I do, it’s part of the daily deals, infact it is the headliner of the Thursday BEst Buy dailies, the new condition Apple Dr Dre Beats Studio 3 ANC/bluetooth over-ears going for $220 with free US shipping… OR if you want to save more, as of the time of writing, the open-box link over there, below the price [on the right hand side] says open-box prices start at $136 (Satisfactory condition) or $150 (Excellent condition)…
A couple of budget necklace-style bluetooth earphone offers is the theme among the daily deals for Tuesday May 18 in 2021 as follows:
+ at the Meh deal du jour you can get a 2-pack of iFrogz Sound Hub XD2 dual-driver necklace-style bluetooth earphones for $10 total plus shipping (unless you are a paying Meh-member in which case shipping is free)…
+ almost every day there’s some kind of a headphone offer at the NewEgg dailies but most of the times it is consumer tier some kind of a bluetooth, such as today, where you can get the Anker Soundcore Spirit 2 necklace-style bluetooth earphones for $17 after using the limited time promo code shown over there
+ what I call “necklace-style” (as opposed to neckband) are bluetooth earphones whose cable is an open loop (that ends at the two earpieces) and you hear them hanging on your neck like a necklace [you can of course also wear them reverse-baseball-cap style, with the “necklace” being on your back instead of your chest]
On a contemporaneous note, Tuesday 5/18/21 is Google I/0 2021 day where there might be some audio related Google announcements. You can watch the livestream/repeat YouTube-embedded below…
Speaking of announcements, this week has developed a bit of a free “HD music” subscription upgrade with both Apple and Amazon offering “HD Music” at the same price as their standard ($10/month) music subscription. It will be interesting to see if Google “price matches” this with a Google I/O announcement. Google Play Music is of course dead, and out of its ashes came YouTube Music/Premium/whatever-they-call-it-these-days.
Necklace-style bluetooth earphones by the pound/kilo is the theme of the day for the smoking hot [ha!] Meh daily deal for April 20 in 2021, good until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out: it is a 4-pack of Xtreme Sound Sidekicks going for $10 total. Shipping is extra unless you are a paying Meh-member.
This is model XTR3M3-T34M for those who have photographic memory 🙂
PS: the “$1.25 per bud” you see over there is an attempt at humor since each earphone consists of two earbuds. No doubt this may confuse some Meh shoppers 🙂
Once upon a time an IEMophile’s mortal enemy, now they kinda forgot about them [= Klipsch IEMs] because they are buried in mountains of new Chi-Fi IEMs 😉
Good until Thursday 4/15/21 at 11:59pm ET [or earlier if sold out] one of them B&H Photo daily deals are the new condition Klipsch R5 Active bluetooth earphones, necklace-style [meaning just a cable, no neckband], going for $20 with free US shipping…
IEM fans, for a limited time, Amazon actual is having a sale on the new condition Etymotic ER2-SE studio edition IEMs going for the very specific price of $78.86 with free US shipping.
This is not a lightning deal, so it’s either an “organic” sale” or some kind of a price match and such.
As of the time of writing these average 4.2 out of 5 based on 69 customer ratings. They have the characteristic triple flange (plus other eartip options) and the cable is detachable.
I haven’t seen or touched them yet, so I have no personal opinion.
We have an early start of the Saturday daily deals at the Meh website where their deal du jour is a 2-pack of JVC Xtreme Xplosives Deep Bass necklace-style bluetooth earphones going for $20 total plus shipping (unless you are a paying Meh-member).
At the risk of sounding like a master of the obvious, the product name slightly hints that these are might just be bassy, very bassy, extremely bassy, explosively bassy. I personally haven’t seen or heard them or read about them, so I cannot comment 🙂
Sunday 3/21/21 brings us a couple of bluetooth earphone options in the NewEgg daily deals as follows:
+ SOL Republic Relays Sport necklace-style bluetooth earphones for $12 w/FS
+ aUFO M1 ANC truly-wireless for $37 w/FS
And on the reading front, among the Kindle deals du jour for Sunday we have two ebooks about musicians:
+ The Beatles: The Biography by B ob Spritz for $5
+ 965 pages
+ Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion by Jim Ruland for $4 with a $0.40 future “Great On Kindle” store credit
+ 337 pages
Back to the headphone action at the B&H daily deals, this one is good until Thursday 3/11/21 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out). It is the new condition Sennheiser CX 2.00i In-Ears going for $15 with free US shipping in the black color scheme, and $20 in the white color scheme…
These are shallow insertion in-ears but definitely not earbuds. More of a tree-stump-y in-ears and they average 4 out of 5 based on 67 customer reviews (as of the time of writing). The “review intensity ratio” is 7 to 1…
Sennheiser is back in the Newegg deals of the day and this offer is good until Thursday 3/4/21 at 11:59pm pacific time. It is the new condition Sennheiser Momentum M2IEi in-ears going for $36 with free US shipping, sold and shipped by NewEgg actual. Up to ten per customer at the sale price. No promo code needed…
Meanwhile at the Thursday Best Buy dailies they have the new condition Plantronics BackBeat FIT 505 closed-back on-ear bluetooth headphones for $50…
And we close Thursday at the Woot dailies where under “Computers” they offer the new condition Microsoft Surface headphones in the gray color scheme with a 1-year Microsoft warranty for $111. Up to ten per customer at the sale price…
Headphones return to the B&H Photo daily deals, this set is good until Sunday 2/28/21 at 11:59pm eastern time (or earlier if sold out). The offering is the new condition “Just Black” Google Pixel Buds (first generation) going for $49 with free US shipping…
This is a necklace-style bluetooth earphone with bluetooth 5.0 and USB-C charging…
As of the time of writing, over there, it averages 4 out of 5 based on 15 customer reviews with a 3:1 review intensity ratio (5-stars vs 1-stars)…
PS: while there, they also have 16GB Sandisk micro-SD cards for $4 each, or slightly less if you buy them in multi-packs… Your prehistoric Sandisk Clip Plus will thank you 😉
Sony leads the budget headphone action at the Saturday February 27 (2021) daily deals at the NewEgg website [CORRECTED; this offer was at NewEgg, not BestBuy!] with their C400 neckband bluetooth earphones going for $23 with free US shipping…
Also there they have yet another refurbished Jabra truly-wireless, this time it is the Elite Active 75t going for $130 and you also get a $10 promotional gift card…
And if you want to feed your DAPs and PADs and such, there’s a 512GB Sandisk microSDXC card going for $60 with free US shipping after entering the limited time promotion shown over there…
Truly wireless is also the name of the game at the Best Buy dailies for Saturday with the JLab Air Icon truly-wireless going for $28… The day also has Aluratek headsets and a video conferencing AVerMedia kit….
Promo code price-shaving action during the Wednesday February 24 in 2021 Newegg daily deals. Enter promo code 93XQK95 over there and you can get the new condition JBL Tune 115-TWS truly-wireless for $30 instead of $70. With free shipping…
Also there you can get the Anker Soundcore Spirit PRO necklace-style bluetooth earphones for $14 after entering promo code 93XQJ88 in their shopping cart…
The headphone party continues at the Newegg deals of the day as Thursday February 18 in 2021 brings these options:
+ Beyerdynamic Xelento bluetooth in-ears for $550
+ Oculus Rift S PC-powered VR gaming headset for $300 with a $15 promotional gift card
+ feed the DAPs and PADs: 256GB Team microSDXC for $24
+ Dell XPS Special Edition Entertainment desktop PC for $1299
Meanwhile the teasers over there for Friday show an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, a Plantronics 500 bluetooth on-ears and the MSI GH30 V2 over-ear gaming headset. The prices of these will be revealed on Friday at 12:01am pacific time…
One of the Friday 2/12/21 daily deals at Woot, good until 11:59pm central time (or earlier if sold out) is a Klipsch and Jamo sale featuring 14 audio products. Many (but not all of them) are factory reconditioned with a 90-day Klipsch warranty. Check each individual listing for details…
One of them is an earphone, the refurbished R6i II R in-ears going for $16, in the black color scheme, with up to three per customer.
The rest of the audio products are speakers of different kind, in-wall speakers, ceiling cat speakers, soundbars, subwoofers, some wireless, and on and on…
UPDATE and PSA: on February 24 of this year (2021 for those reading in the past or the future), Google will delete all your Google Play Music data. You can download and/or transfer them before then. More details here…
Once upon a time their price was “glued” at $100 but time and the competitive pressure of the market has brought the Sennheiser Momentum in-ears down, and now, as part of the Friday 2/12/21 daily deals in the pacific time zone, NewEgg is offering the new condition Senheiser M2Ei Momentum In-Ears for $36 with free US shipping…
PS: the sale price will go live at 12:01am pacific time on Friday…
PS2: only the iOS (the “i” in the model name) buttons version is on sale… You can use the earphones for audio playback with any 3.5mm device, it’s just that you’ll get full functionality of the buttons with iOS devices. Non-iOS devices, YMMV on button usage…
We have a trans-atlantic deal-post here on the Tin Hifi P1 flagship in-ears!
In new condition, at Amazon USA, there’s a limited time $10 off clip-on coupon that brings the price down to $159 with free US shipping… This is sold by “Linsoul Audio” with the order fulfilled by Amazon (free 2-day Prime shippings)…
In USED condition, we fly to Amazon Germany where as of the time of writing there is one unit left in “USED – Like New” condition for 98 euro…
For a limited time, Adorama is offering the new condition Etymotic ER2SE in-ears (dynamic studio edition) with their characteristic triple-flange for $55 with free US shipping. Limited time offer only!
Speaking of which, Adorama currently has 240+ audio products on sale including a number of headphones and assorted-related accessories…
If you don’t mind buying “beef stock” (okay, B-Stock) headphones, for a limited time, Adorama is offering in B-Stock the Audeze iSine 10 planar earphones for $119 with free US shipping…
I’ll leave it to the forums to debate the minutia of categorizing these. Clip-Ons? In-Ears? Or just use the umbrella term Earphones like I just did? 🙂
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