The Black Friday of ASIA is today 11/11 (in a global time zone kind of fashion)! Check your favorite Asian retailers for a variety of sales, including Aliexpress (check their Fiio sales and XDuoo sales) and GearBEST where a number of their KZ earphones and XDuoo gear are on sale. Use the search bars at those websites or use the various banners/offers higlihghted on their main sites. Happy hunting 😛

Get ready Prime members who happen to be shoppaholics! Prime Day 2018 begins later today at 12pm pacific time (Amazon server time; translates to 3pm eastern). But in the meantime you can participate in some of the Statement Credit promotions if you are a Prime member and have either on one of the Amazon credit cards (either the Prime Chase VISA credit card, or the Prime Amazon store credit card). Among the cashback (statement credit) options offered:

+ 10% back on Bang & Olufsen products

+ 10% back on Musical Instruments which include a variety of headphones under the Studio Product category. There’s 80 of them in the headphones sub-category but there are also other related products in other sub-categories – as it is often the case with categorization, it’s only as good as the methodology and the people implementing it ~ and nobody’s perfect.

UPDATE: among the latest Prime Day offers currently in progress you can get the new condition Beats 3 Studio Wireless headphones in the Matte Black color scheme for $200 with free shipping, sold and shipped by Amazon actual, with up to three pairs per customer at the sale price…

Of audio interest, Amazon is bundling the SONOS ONE smart speaker with a $50 plastic Amazon.com gift card, all together going for $200 with free shipping.

NOTE that the Prime Day offers, as the name suggests, are offered for Prime members. If not a member, you can start a free trial and join in the shopping party…

Meanwhile starting at 8:15pm ET on Monday is a Prime Day lightning deal the new condition Jabra MOVE closed-back on-ear bluetooth headphones…

New York’s B&H Photo is running a big 2-day sale until Wednesday at 11:59pm eastern on June 20 in 2018. Among the items offered:

+ M-Audio Micro DAC USB Digital to Analog Converter for $24 w/free S&H

+ Sennheiser PMX 684i neckband earbuds for $20

+ Sennheiser RS160 wireless (Kleer technology), previous generation, for $85

+ Senal SMH-1200 studio headphones for $60

+ Tascam VL-S3 14W + 14W 3″ Powered Studio Monitor (Pair, Black) with free On-Stage foam speaker platforms for $50

A handful of products are on a daily deal for Wednesday 5/23/18 starting with B&H Photo offering the new condition JBL Reflect Mini Lightweight earphones for $25 with free shipping in your choice of two color schemes until 11:59pm eastern on Wednesday.

Good until 11:59pm pacific time tonight at the Amazon Gold box is a Klipsch R-15M Bookshelf Speakers and Powergate Amplifier Bundle offered for $380, sold by Woot and fulfilled by Amazon, so Prime-eligible shipping.

Next up, Woot has a gaming accessories sale that includes a $15 Logitech USB headset and a $50 Logitech surround sound gaming headset. But that’s not all at Woot, they also have a Woot OFF running which may (or may not) have headphone and audio related products participating. These end at 11:59pm central time.

Woot has opened their Garage Doors again, with another multi-category garage sale. You can find microSD cards to feed your DAPs and PADs under the Computers category, while under the Electronics Garage sale they have the following headphones:

+ Panasonic RP-HJE120 earphones for $3
+ Playstation Gold Wireless for $20
+ AKG K55 Red DJ on-ears for $40
+ Sennheiser RS 120 RF wireless for $50
+ Sennheiser RS 165 RF Wireless for $130
+ Steelseries gaming headset

+ SOLD OUT: Sennheiser CX 2.00G earphones for $20

+ free shipping for Prime members; otherwise $5 flat for the calendar day

According to the schedule at NewEggFLASH, the following headphone-related sales are scheduled to start at 12pm eastern on the following days:

+ April 22: Klipsch X6i in-ears and Onkyo C-7030 CD player
+ April 24: Beyerdynamic Headphone Amp
+ April 25: Klipsch R6i On-Ears

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If you are a Prime member with either one of the official Amazon credit cards (Chase Prime VISA or Prime Store Card), and you buy participating Musical Instruments using either one of those credit cards, you will earn a 10% statement credit instead of the usual 5% statement credit. There is no limit on how much you can earn as a statement credit with these cards.

Among those “musical instruments” there are over 420 headphones participating in this promotion, popular models from Sennheiser (HD 600, 650, etc), AKG, Shure, Beyerdynamic, etc…

The promotion has its own dedicated search box on the promotional page so you can use that to search for brands or products of interest [screenshot below, it’s not a functional search box]..

Eligible products also mention this promotion on their individual product pages. Note that the 10% back only works for products sold and shipped by Amazon actual. If a product is sold by a marketplace seller (new or used or refurbished), you will earn the usual 5% if you pay with one of the two official Prime credit cards…