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On the Klipsch earphones front, a couple of models are discounted in certified refurbished condition by Beach Camera thru Amazon (Prime eligible). They are on the same listing, the R6 goes for $20, while the R6i goes for $25. The “i” is for Apple remote/mic. Free shipping for Prime members or with a $35+ order.
On the other hand, if you are fond of new condition, the R6i is offered for $59 with free shipping at NewEgg Business using the $20 off coupon code BTHYJKA1 by the end of day on 4/30/17.
It’s back on again at Massdrop, with five days to go from blog-posting date, the new condition semi-open AKG M220 (based on the good old K240) over-ears studio headphones are going for $50 with free shipping. These orders will be shipped by the vendor (not specified) and all sales are final as usual, so not a plus if you like to have return-flexibility. Orders will ship mid-to-late May 2017.
PS: Studio headphones has become more of a marketing term, but these are legit ~ considering the price 🙂
Copper “Moscow Mule” cups are all the rage these days, so the copper mania apparently jumped to earphones as well. 1Voice is offering 100% copper earphones, the “1Voice Audio Blast”. They are available at various retailers, the lowest price you pay depends on whether you can get free shipping or not (eg depending on order total or membership):
+ Overstock for $16.50 + shipping
+ Groupon Goods for $18 (free S&H with $35+ order)
+ Overstock on eBay for $21.44 with free S&H
1Voice has a few models, this is the “Blast” model, not to be confused with the “Bliss” or the “Bang” or “Boom”. Their product naming scrabble bag only has words beginning with a “B” 🙂
A handful of “fulfilled by Amazon” marketplace sellers appear to be in a price war (human or machine controlled price war, I do not know) on the new condition A-Audio A01 Closed-Back over/on-ears The lowest price is now $30, fulfilled by Amazon, so if you are a Prime member, you get free 2-day shipping and Amazon customer service, which is an extra layer of protection when buying from marketplace sellers, since the products are under Amazon’s control (in their facilities/warehouses), so if there are any issues or shenanigans, Amazon will fix it, you don’t have to hope rando-seller is honest.
NOTE: there are multiple different models on the same Amazon product page. The ones on sale for $30 are the A01, not to be confused with the A02 Legacy or the A11 Lyric which go for much more. They have detachable cable (either side), and come with a luxury travel case and cable with mic/remote.
I am not quite sure whether the A01 is over-ear or on-ear. The Amazon page is confused and so is the A-Audio website which (in addition to the browser security complaints) has a 404 error where the user manuals for the A01 and A02 models should be.
So this is a bit of a higher risk purchase…
PS: you can see a picture of the travel case in gallery picture #4 at Stacksocial.
We are double-amping (in terms of back to back blog posts that is), the RazorDog Audio eBay store is offering in Store Demo condition (eBay calls it “New – Other”) with full warranty the Sony PHA-3 portable DAC/amp for $629 with free shipping and handling. It ships from Minnesota. Lakes NOT included in the package 🙂 They only have one unit available at this price.
I am overdue for another Amazon Warehouse Deals immersion session (when I find uninterrupted time for it), but in the meantime, the Teac UD-503-B Dual-Monaural USB DAC with Headphone Amplifier is available in “Used – Like New” condition for $650 with free shipping by Wisconsin’s Hifi Heaven through Warehouse Deals. It ships directly from Heaven, and it is not Prime eligible. Diary Aire included for FREE in the package 🙂
Speaking of Amazon, the Guitar PRO 6 software is on sale for $20 (mail delivery, not digital download).
On the consumables front, the Medium size of 3-pairs of Comply Isolation T-500 earfoam (short for earphone foam tips) is on sale for $15 at Amazon by Amazon actual, with up to three sets per customer. These are also available as a “Subscribe and Save” purchase since they are consumables, the foam tips don’t last as long as silicone. Keep in mind future “Subscribe and Save” shipments will be based on future prices, not the original price you pay now for the first purchase.
The same price is available for the 3-pairs set of Small / Medium / Large set, handy if you use different sizes on each ear, or if shopping for multiple people, or planning to sell IEMs and want to make your offer more tempting by adding value-add accessories to them.
You don’t have to decide! You can get Massdrop’s AKG K7XX in either the standard edition or the Red edition for $200 with free shipping each at the members-only (but free to join) website. The offers are running for 15 days. Finally they discovered new technology to make offers run longer? 🙂 They come with a 2-year warranty from AKG.
NOTE however that these will ship late July 2017, and all sales are final!
This daily deal is expireotronic now 🙂
UPDATE 4/27/17 at 10:27am ET: remains in-stock for $300 at the Monoprice website…
Previous updates after the break…
In a sale ending Sunday night, NewEgg actual is offering the new condition Samson RTE 2 Bluetooth closed on-ears for $30 with free shipping. No coupon/rebate needed. It supports apt-X and NFC and has a 3.5mm input as well.
It has a built-in rechargeable battery as do almost all bluetooth headphones these days. AA/AAA batteries seem to be more of the ANC and RF (non BT) wireless kind although more of those too are switching to built-in rechargeables.
You can have solid sub-$100 closed-back over-ear headphones these days. Case in point, the official Harman Audio store is offering the new condition AKG K550 Mark II for $90 with free shipping. Limit two per customer during this sale. They are available in the black color scheme. The cable has a mic/remote but it is not detachable. Basic specifications available in a 1-page PDF file.
If you like hightlighter magenta or yellow headphone colors, they are hard to find, but Sony comes to the rescue as these two colors of their closed-back over-ear MDR-100-AAP are on sale for $105 with free shipping by Beach Camera through NewEgg. The sale ends Wednesday night. They ship directly from Beach Camera (New Jersey).
It’s couponing time! AUKEY is a chinese company sort of modeling itself and competing with Anker, and they too love promoting their products through Amazon coupons. Which brings us to 50% off coupon SS7UPFXS that drops the price of the AUKEY Arcs Bluetooth earphones from $16 to $8! A Prime membership gets them to you for free in two-ish days, while non-Prime members need a $35+ order for free shipping (or $25+ in books). They are marketed as exercise phones and average 3.3 out of 5 based on 44 customer reviews.
This promotion expired…
A day late, but this is a jam-packed new edition of This Week in Headphoolia, with the Bose SpyGate being the headline story, but there are plenty of headphone reviews and comparisons dominating this edition, along with show reports.
You can find all previous and future editions in the Archives. There are nine installments so far 🙂
The Titus Audio Symphony Line Conductor earphones, in the black or titanium color-schemes are on sale for the very specific price of $52.49 at Amazon by Amazon actual with a limit of up to three units per customer. Multiple models are on the same listing, so be sure to filter the customer reviews for this particular model (the “Conductor”) ~ but as of the time of writing, they have only one, and it’s a 1-sentence review 🙁 They come with a zippered case and with two different kinds of eartips (memory foam and silicone) in multiple sizes.
Another Klipsch is a NewEgg daily deal. The Klipsch X11 earphones are offered for $50 with free shipping. For Monday, coupon code EMCSRECE6 drops them to $50 for NewEgg newsletter subscribers. On Tuesday, they will move to the open for all to see in the Shellshocker Deals.
PS: I don’t know why NewEgg is complicating something as simple as daily deals. And I don’t know why after so many years, their Shellshocker deals page requires constant mouse work to see them all, instead of expanding them all in place. But what do I know? I’m just a web monkey 🙂
This Tuesday lightning deal expired…
These daily deals expired…
AS of 4/25/17 at 9:54am ET recheck, this is out of stock with a 4/28/17 in-stock estimate for the Monoprice website…
They are not eligible for the various Monoprice coupons (but no one can stop you from trying them out).
This daily deal expired too…
This offer expired but this coupon is a recurring offer, so it will likely return in the future. It appears to be a Monday coupon, but not always…
This sale ended but these are recurring offers… One of Amazon’s Gold Box lightning deals is the black color scheme of the AmoVee Acrylic Headphone Stand for $11~ with the order fulfilled by Amazon (Prime eligible). The lightning discounts on these are small because their price is already close to $0 🙂
If you are interested in getting the Sennheiser HD 650 right now (and are not swayed by dreams of the $200 Massdrop HD 6XX), the HD 650 is available in new condition at a couple of authorized dealers for $316, Adorama and Amazon actual.
If you don’t need/want to get one right away, patience or used the market is a reasonable course of action. Sennheiser reloaded their HD5** and HD4** line-ups but other than the Massdrop HD6XX, the HD6** hasn’t been updated. Even the HD8** line-up got an update with the HD800S. So it’s probably only a matter of time before something new comes in. But only Sennheiser knows for certain 🙂
This sale ended…
This specific coupon expired but the 15% off Monoprice coupon is a recurring offer, so if you miss this, fear not ~ it will return in the future…
This 3-pack of 2-inch Top Stage GMC04-Q6 Earcup Covers is currently on sale for $1.91 at Amazon by Amazon actual with a limit of up to 30 sets per customer. Because of the low price, these are ADD-ON items, so you must place a $25+ order, otherwise the shopping cart will refuse to let you buy them no matter what.
These have been bought by many through the years apparently because they have over 1300 customer reviews with a 4.3 out of 5 and roughly an “8 to 1” review intensity ratio (five stars vs one stars). They have 75 questions answered as well. Check pictures and reviews and measurements. These are 3mm thin/thick.
The Pioneer XDP-100R DAP is currently on sale for $300 in new condition, but if you want to save more, you can get them in “Used – Like New” condition for $219~ with free shipping by Electronics Expo through Amazon Warehouse Deals. This is available in both black (previous link) and in silver color schemes. They ship directly from Electronics Expo (East Coast, not Prime eligible). They average 4 out of 5 based on 36 customer reviews.
The Fall 2016 Apple-Beats collection is now shy about aggressive discounting, the Beats X bluetooth earphones are now down to $100 with free shipping, in new condition, as a Best Buy daily deal. Only the black color scheme goes for $100. The others go for $120.
The new condition Klipsch Reference Over-Ear Bluetooths, in either one of the two color schemes, is on sale for $199 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon actual. They support apt-X and AAC, also play music via 3.5mm input, have removable earpads, they fold and come with a zippered shelled case.
If you are a T-Mobile customer, every Tuesday, they give out freebies to their paying customers. You can use the T-Mobile Tuesdays app (iOS, Google PLAY) or logon to the website with a web browser. Most of the freebies are per line (not by account), so if you have multiple lines, you can claim multiples. For April 25 (2017), they have a music theme, with the following promotions:
Time heals wounds and drops prices 🙂 Which is the case on the latter, the open-back over-ear Sennheiser HD 559, part of the new 5XX line-up is currently on sale for $100 at Amazon by Amazon actual. It has detachable cable and replaceable earpads which can help with longevity.
PS: of the new HD 5X9 line-up, note that the HD 569 are closed even though they don’t have a “CS” in their name like the HD 598 CS. The HD 5X8 was all open-back until the 598 CS came along a few months ago.
On the budget side of things, the closed-back on-ear Panasonic RP-HF-100M, with mic/remote, in four color schemes, are on sale for $18 by Amazon actual. Limit up to three per color per customer. The different colors can be handy if you want to colorcode them for kids and grandkids so they don’t get confused/fight over who owns what. They average 4 out of 5 based on over 700 customer reviews.
This is another crazy idea from “The Repurposing Department”, this AmazonBasics RFID Travel Neck Stash Wallet is down to $1.94 in new condition. It is an ADD-ON item with a limit of 4 per customer, so you must place a $25+ order if you want to buy it. Judging by the pictures there, this could be useful as an earphone case given the price. I don’t have this, so I’m only going by the listing. Check dimensions and reviews and such to see if this is something you want to take a chance on.
You don’t have to wear around your neck, you can put it in a bag or briefcase or backpack. There are a few customer pictures of it as well. For its intended use, it averages 4.2 out of 5 based on 150+ customer reviews.
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