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Master "deals" (massdrop, ebay, Amazon, etc.) Thread on Audio Product Sales

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Per Slickdeals,

Adorama in NYC is offering deals on select loudspeakers from Energy, Magnat, Jamo and Klipsch starting at $39.

Premium Audio Corporation sold the Energy and Jamo brands to a Chinese company in August 2024.

 
Per Slickdeals,

Adorama in NYC is offering deals on select loudspeakers from Energy, Magnat, Jamo and Klipsch starting at $39.

Premium Audio Corporation sold the Energy and Jamo brands to a Chinese company in August 2024.

Energy went out of business (bought out by Klipsh) how many decades ago? Where are people getting NIB stock from? Every year I see some audio dealer peddling them.
 
Energy went out of business (bought out by Klipsh) how many decades ago? Where are people getting NIB stock from? Every year I see some audio dealer peddling them.
AFAIK, Klipsch was producing 'Energy-branded' loudspeakers until they sold the brand in August 2024. I believe Adorama has struck a deal to take inventory of discontinued products of brands from Klipsch's parent company, Premium Audio Corporation, but I do not know.
 
Per post # 5,388....

Accessories4Less dot com is now showing inventory of refurbished WiiM Amp Ultra devices with a 1-year WiiM warranty for $399.


Unlike Linkplay's outlet store on Ebay, Accessories4Less dot com is now offering the Silver variant of the Amp Ultra.

 
Yes amazing deals I'm like man can get like a 20w Mini Joyo Meteor for like $160 and some awesome orange tone bang for buck or yeah id like to put together that 50w 800 2204 kit for a little over $500. so nice deals that world again. What i find though is like obvious 2204 siming though. it's better to spend a bit again like that you'll get something nice. And yeah some good home hi-fi systems again.
 
Now out of stock. Do they regularly offer the refurbished units?
Yes,

I expect inventory to be refreshed by this Monday, if not sooner.
 
'More than 10 available' - as of this posting

Thanks! Should I be nervous at all about the seemingly large number of refurbished units? (Accessories4less has refurbed units as well). Wondering about the cause of the availability of the number of units.

I have bought a large amount of my Canon camera gear via their refurb sales, those are largely dealer returns, demo samples, and overstock clearing. If you have a Canon camera with an issue under warranty it gets repaired under warranty and sent back to you, so their 'refurb' units are not broken and repaired units. Anyone know if these Wiim units are similar?
 
Thanks! Should I be nervous at all about the seemingly large number of refurbished units? (Accessories4less has refurbed units as well). Wondering about the cause of the availability of the number of units.

I have bought a large amount of my Canon camera gear via their refurb sales, those are largely dealer returns, demo samples, and overstock clearing. If you have a Canon camera with an issue under warranty it gets repaired under warranty and sent back to you, so their 'refurb' units are not broken and repaired units. Anyone know if these Wiim units are similar?

Sample size of two - I have been using a refurbished WiiM Amp and a refurbished WiiM Mini for 2 years without issues.

I think the risk is low - given Linkplay (owner of WiiM) offers the same length of warranty for refurbished and new samples.

I don't know the cause of the availability of 'refurbished' units.

My speculation is Linkplay may using their outlet store as a discreet sales channel of modest volume - to attract bargain hunters.
 
eBay's had a few multiple quantity listings for Brand New Wiim "Sub Pro" units at $400 including free US shipping.

The guy with Open Box and crazy high shipping will take $390 all up, but he faffed on a bit much getting there

if you did need to take advantage of the eBay guarantee you don't get shipping back!

I decided to go this way for my stereo MBM "couplers as basstands", co-located with my OG LS50s in my front stacks - rather than DIYing those boxen. Will still add trueSubs to get flat down to, say 20Hz (which the Wiims cannot do.) Likely at least three more, as mono and managed by MSO.

Klarna gave me $60/mo on the never never so I sprang for the $40 extra protection.

Any responses on these topics, let's take i
to one of these, sorry for OT...


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$79.90 is the current 'in-cart' price for an O-Noorus D1 Pro amplifier at Amazon USA - this price may be a targeted listing.

Low Pass Filter for subwoofer output, High Pass Filter for Loudspeaker terminals and PreOut jack, Remote Control.

 
Per Slickdeals,

Adorama in New York City is offering a pair of Energy CF-70 tower loudspeakers for $299 after applying a coupon code at checkout.


According to the link below, the Energy CF-70 weighs about 45 pounds each, uses a 3-way crossover and was introduced in Fall 2008.

 
My speculation is Linkplay may using their outlet store as a discreet sales channel of modest volume - to attract bargain hunters.
I think this is likely. A trick of the trade for Amazon sellers is to put "refurbished" (sometimes actually refurbished, sometimes new) units on eBay for cheap when you want to drive sales by discounting. Amazon will actually punish you if Amazon does not have the absolute lowest price anywhere. There are also downsides to discounting new units in general, as you train people to wait for sales, distributors / retailers may react in ways you don't want also, etc. But the refurbished status is a way to get around that. Nobody is disappointed if their refurbished unit looks 100% new.

I also own a lot of "refurbished" WiiM units and let's just say none of them were obviously refurbs.
 
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