Headphones

Yeah, I freaking remembered when this happened. I was so salty that I missed it, I just bought them at full price.

I got a Pair of Grado SR60 for $5 at a Yard Sale. Still have them and listen to them on occasion.

Think my most recent was was a brand new Utopia 2020 with warranty for about $1.3k

Not much of a steal compared to you and a few others here, but I ordered a Moondrop variation for 392 (msrp 520) from linsoul. It’s a preorder though so I have to wait a while before I get it.

Pair of green Q701s for 10 bucks at a TV show liquidation.

Got a pair of Arya V2s for that price about a year ago. Far, far more impressive at that time than now 😔

Got the Schiit Bifrost 2, Valhalla 2, and Jotunheim 1 w/ DAC in a bundle.for $850 (~$961 after tax and shipping).

Got the Blue Ella headphones for ~$260 about a year ago, retail was $700 in 2017.

Hard to get great deals in headphones, in my experience. Far better deals are to be had in stereo.

AKG K612 pro for about 100 usd in Brasil (where everything costs twice as normal)

IE900 for 950 AUD. Dunu Vulkan for 335 AUD Beyer Xelento 900 AUD. HD660S2 for 550AUD.

Plus an Astron SSJ007 for 1800Aud.

Utopia 2022 brand new for around $2,200 USD give or take this past Sept.

Dekoni elite velour pads for $15 flat.

Aeon 2 Noire for $520

Got a pair of DT770 80ohms at goodwill for $8 in near mint condition and the pads look never worn.

Not even on Black Friday, just some internal system fuckup by Walmart. Ordered 2 car seats, Walmart sent an email that the order had been cancelled. Ordered same ones in a different color through Amazon, literally a day after the ones from Amazon arrived the ones from Walmart showed up. Returned the ones from Amazon because I liked the Walmart color way better and Walmart ender did chaste the nearly $800 for them. It had been budgeted for but it was nice to be able to use that money towards other essentials.

My personal top 3 audio gear deals:

Sennheiser HD 700

Sennheiser IE 600

Audeze Euclid

I've gotten a lot of great Chi-fi IEM deals too but don't feel like screenshotting and posting them all.

Got a Sennheiser PC360 for 30 bucks back in 2018, had a slight problem with the volume not being able to go 100% but otherwise it was in pretty damn good condition with the mic and the sound itself crystal clear + it didn't stink.

Pretty hard to find any decent headphones/headsets in Indonesia that is associated with a big brand to be priced so damn cheap, and I remember the GAME ONE was going for a lot back then so it was a no brainer for me.

I got a pair of hifiman aryas for 250 usd on fb marketplace previously owned by Tyler Perry

i got some hifiman closed back sundaras for $150. quite a steal imo

What is black friday?

Ordered a pair of Thieaudio Ghost for $86

All my steals came when you could buy things on Amazon US and ship them to Oz for virtually nothing, and Amazon Australia didn’t exist. They weren’t really steals from a US perspective - just US Amazon prices on things, which were always at least 30% off domestic prices. Now we have a shitty third rate version of Amazon, the brand products on US Amazon either don’t ship or ship at exorbitant prices, and the only ‘bargains’ are chifi- which are in any case still cheaper on Aliexpress. But for a few years, there were good times.

Bought a used HD600 on ebay for under $200 and sold them years later for over $300.

Hifiman Edition X is same tier as Arya, XS is below Anada. Edition is like HE, HE400 and HE1000 are not remotely the same.

well apparently the hd6xx for $200 was once a steal, but it ended up being $500 when you consider the schiit stack, cables, shipping, and tax.

I am hopefully today getting arya stealth for 480$

300€ for an hd800 with a broken cable.

Nothing special of a deal, but Shuoer S12 for 109€ are incredible value

Last year, I ordered some KZ PR1's, and had second thoughts at the last second, and cancelled the order. They ended up still showing up, and I got a refund.

I upgraded to S12's this year, no great deal, aside from how they sound.

Lost my Galaxy Buds 2 and needed a new phone around the same time. Got the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro and a duo charging pad for free with the new phone! Great timing. Also Samsung has pretty good student discounts

Verite Closed Resin Stab for 200$

The best deal I got was buying the Sennheiser HD 660S2 for $500 for them to immediately go down to $400 a two later.

Who stole who?

Edition XS is not the same tier as Edition X , same as Edition S

Just bought a grado sr325e for 180$. In a country where they usually cost 400 with shipping

Probably used DT 1990 for 300€ with dekoni pads and two 3rd party cables each costing 100€.

Meze 109 Pros for €670 just yesterday. Have considered them my end game for a long time, along with my HD600s and K702s (and well, my KSC75s) I don’t need anything else

7hz Timeless for $145, I feel like that was a good grab.

Got a shp9600 and fidelio x3 for 55$ total because of a pricing error on a website.

I bought a second-hand pair of Bose QC35 for like $80. Then they started having this issue where they would turn on by themselves. I Googled a bit and it turned out that it was a known issue and Bose would often replace them. So I submitted a ticket and got a brand new pair of QC45 as a replacement. Good deal! At least it was until I broke up with my GF and never got them back. Oh well, easy come easy go.

I had a string of Amazon incidents leading up to a driver opening my packages, so they comped the cost of the Red: Zero.

not as big of a deal obv but my recent B-Stock LCD-2C purchase that pretty much looks like it was worn once lol.