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It’s headphone breakfast at the Best Buy daily deals, where one of them is the new condition B&O Play H8i wireless/ANC on-ears going for $300 with free shipping and/or free store pickup in the black color scheme.
It seems that these two “fashion” brands, B&O and B&W are frequently “flyers” at the Best Buy daily deals. Higher profit margin, more flexibility for discounts mayhaps? 🙂
We have some broader action with the Tuesday daily deals at various websites as follows:
+ at Best Buy, they offer the new condition B&O H9i ANC/bluetooth over-ears for $350 with free shipping or free store pickup (where possible) in the “Natural” color scheme
+ at NewEgg, they want to feed your DAPs and PADs, coupon code 92RDX3 gets you the 256GB Samsung EVO micro SDXC card for $38
+ at the Amazon Headphones Lightning deals, the following recognizable earphones are scheduled to go live during Tuesday:
+ starts 12:10pm ET: Symphonized Wraith 2.0 Wood Bluetooth Over-Ears (price before sale $73; there’s also a $5 off clip-on coupon on the listing)
+ starts 8:55pm ET: MEE Audio M6 PRO 2nd Generation (price before sale $39~)
+ starts 9:10pm ET: SoundMAGIC PL30+ Active Sport In-Ears (price before sale $24)
+ and of course throughout the day, it’s full of truly wireless and necklace (and some neckband) style earphones; oh, there’s also a cat-ears on-ear headphone (presumably for kids (of all ages?)? )
It’s mayhaps a fashion headphones week (?) at the Best Buy website ~ mayhaps. Their Monday deal of the day are the new condition Beoplay H8i closed-back on-ears with the popular among the masses Wireless (bluetooth) and ANC (active noise cancelling) technologies, going for $300 with free shipping and/or store-pick where possible and available…
PS: the “Complete Your Purchase” at Best Buy has a rather strange propositional combo: this headphone and the B&W PX ANC over-ears and an HDMI cable and an 82″ 2160p UHD TV ^_^
Meanwhile Amazon customer darling Anker is back with another sale at Amazon Germany’s Gold Box which includes various size and capacity power-banks ~ of interest if you want to power your DAPs and PADs and portable DAC/amps on the go or if you prefer not to have a live electricity wire in your bed!
Another pair of headphones that was announced at CES 2018 is now available for pre-ordering. It is the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay duo of H9i and H8i, an over-ear and on-ear respectively duo of bluetooth with active noise cancelling headphones. Each one is available in two color schemes and their pre-order prices are $499 and $399 respectively, with a late January 2018 release estimate.
Of practical interest, these charge via a USB-C port on the headphones, so you don’t have to fight with the micro-USB cable.
Pre-orders are accepted as follows:
+ H8i for $399 at Amazon actual
+ H9i for $499 at Amazon actual
UPDATE 4/7/17: it hasn’t come back since, so I’ll pronounce it DEAD for now… I will post a new post if it ever comes back…
The headphone stork is bringing in even more new releases. The new B&O PLAY H4 bluetooth closed-back over-ear headphones in the “charcoal gray” color scheme are now in-stock and ready to ship for $299 with free shipping by authorized dealer Onecall through Amazon. More marketplace sellers have it now, check the detailed listings [updated 2/25/17]
These ship from OneCall (Eastern Washington, the only persona of Huppin’s – think Gonzaga!), but if you are a Prime member, you receive Prime-like shipping speed even though they don’t ship from Amazon’s own facilities. This is thanks to a lesser-known Prime benefit, where some retailers agree to ship some items at Prime speeds. You can recognize this on listings (while logged on with a Prime account) by looking at the highlighted areas in the screenshot below:
They support Bluetooth 4.2 and promise up to 19 hours of music playback before recharging. They also play music through a standard 3.5mm input. B&O has an ever-increasing number of H-series headphone models. This particular model does not have ANC, which for some may be considered a plus.
The new condition price of the B&O Play H5 bluetooth earphones is $250 at reputable dealers, but if you want to save some, you can get them in “Used – Very Good” condition (repackaged) for $137~ with free shipping by Amazon Warehouse Deals. Be sure to read reviews if you are not familiar with them because they average 3.2 out of 5 based on 200+ customer reviews.
UPDATE: as of 2/21/17 recheck, the price dropped from $147~ to $137~
The black color scheme of the second-generation closed-back over-ear B&O PLAY H6 headphones is currently on sale for $263 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon actual with a limit of up to three units per customer.
This limited time sale sold-out before the planned 6-hour offer expired…
In a press release that came out yesterday, T-Mobile says that if you purchase the LG V20 from them, you will be able to get a free pair of B&O Play H3 In-Ears from LG. The H3s are NOT included in the box by T-Mobile. The press release points to the LG V20 website for redemption details. You may have to to register the phone to get it. The exact details of the redemption are not known since the phone is not even out yet.
Another unknown is whether you get the first-generation H3s or the second generation. The list price for both is $150, so price alone can’t tell.
If you are only interested in the H3, a marketplace seller at amazon.com (Prime eligible) was able to snag the H3s that were part of the LG G5 launch promotion and is selling them for $100 in new condition. There are no reviews to this listing, so this is for the boldly-going 🙂 These are presumably the first generation?
Having said all that, the price of the LG V20 is still up in the air. T-Mobile did not reveal a price, but AT&T lists it for $830. It is also offered through the installment plans that bandaid (verb) the initial sticker shock, but the price is still the same (30 months of $27.67 per month). It is also eligible for “Next” and Trade-In promotions (the H3 appear to be in the Trade-In promotion).
Verizon’s press release says they will carry it but it’s NOT on their website yet. Sprint has it on their website with a “Coming Soon” but no price or order details yet.
The V20 is generating some headphone-related interest/hype, Quad-DAC and all. Here’s one post by Android Authority talking V20 audio, and many and more posts and forum threads across the interwebs.
The new condition second-generation closed-back over-ear B&O BeoPlay H6 go for $300 in new condition but if you prefer used, the black color scheme is available in “Used – Good” condition (cosmetic imperfections, damaged original packaging) for $224~ with free shipping by Amazon Warehouse Deals actual. The listing shows the lowest price per color. To see the detailed listings per color, click on the blue “See all offers for this product” link next to each color’s name over there.
The black color scheme of the second generation B&O PLAY H6 Over-Ear headphones is on sale, going for $280 instead of its usual price of $300 at Amazon by Amazon actual with a 1-3 weeks shipping estimate.
NOTE: a “Just Launched” seller also has it for the same price, which may have automatically triggered Amazon’s own price to drop as a computer price-match. Make sure you are buying from Amazon actual, not from the marketplace seller.
PS: if you are not familiar with how things look at the Amazon website, this is a screenshot of the part of the product page you should always look at:
This Prime offer expired too… Just like the Beyerdynamic Customs, this too is an “Add to Cart” type of deal. The price you see on the product page for the B&O PLAY by Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H7 bluetooth over-ears is $400+, but when you add them to the shopping cart, the price drops to $299. This offer is available on all three color schemes.
For the boldly going explorers of bluetooth earphones, there’s a new entry in the field arriving next week (the estimate is July 11, 2016 but that may vary slightly), it is the B&O Play H5 bluetooths, available in either black or white, with an opening price of $250. They have a dedicated app and the customary Bang & Olufsen styling.
If you are a fan of the B&O PLAY brand from Bang & Olufsen, their BeoPlay H6 over-ear headphones, in the gray-hazel color-scheme, are on sale for $199 with free shipping, sold by the actual company, with the order fulfilled by Amazon, so you get free 2-day shipping if you are a Prime member. Limit 30 units per customer. The new condition price is actually lower than the used prices as of the time of writing.
These daily deals expired…
If you can’t resist the Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay H6 headphones but don’t want to pay the $400 new condition price, and you are not tempted by the second generation model (also $400), you can get the first-generation model in Used condition, with prices at $240 for the Natural/Brown color scheme and $261 for the black color scheme. These are the prices by Amazon Warehouse Deals. Other marketplace sellers may have them for slightly less, but they are a higher risk unless they are a well known seller or you have a higher risk threshold.
The new condition stylish BeoPlay H6 over-ears go for $400 in new condition, but if you are comfortable with used, you can get them as low as $245 (was $258) in the black color scheme, in “Used – Very Good” condition by Amazon Warehouse Deals. They are available in five different color schemes. The rest go for more in used condition. They average 4.4 out of 5 based on 70+ customer reviews… Price updated here 4/28/15…
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