For those of you who are like me and missed the JB Hi-Fi Wicked Wednesday Deal for the SONY WH-1000XM5's for $350.
As long as you are with the Australian Retirement Trust, you can still grab the deal for $389 unfortunately the 15% off Gift Card and the Wicked Wednesday 10% off will not apply
But no 10% discount. Think good guys had a festive code one recently
Cant use gift cards with tggc
Just a note I never managed to post on last night's XM5 deal: I'd suggest these kinds of price drops reflect the audio quality jump we can expect in next year's Bluetooth LE Audio headphones. Sony previously overly tuned to basic codec standards instead of LDAC, and to a perceived consumer want for bass to mask outside noise while listening during transit.
Now, with LDAC all-but being replaced by an affordable offering and big players ready to weigh in with proven quality non-ANC gear as well as the multitude of ANC tweaks in the offing via machine learning advancements, you're looking at a big audio quality jump in this space. Mic quality should also improve fairly dramatically too through increased bandwidth and audio processing.
The TLDR here is if you don't need to buy now, don't. Expect lots of news out of CES in 3 weeks.
Thanks for that info, very handy!
thanks friend
The price drop was more than likely a price error that caused a knock on effect to the commercial site (and other sites like amazon) - the sale price was clearly intended for the WH-1000XM4 not the WH-1000XM5 - made obvious by what was actually shown on the promo email, and the quick patch up. These are still in high demand - most retailers still only allow 1 per customer. Congrats to those who got a good price, I doubt we'll see a price this low until the next model up is out.
It was going for $380-$400 during Black Friday, so it's honestly not a shock. If the hardware on this isn't capable of LC3 low latency, the price is going to crater.
Oh really - do you have a link to the past deal? Kicking myself if I missed those $380-$400 as I have been following the price of these since release and kept a really close eye over black friday.
Camel^3 shows lowest of $493 ($469 3rd party). Ozbargain history shows most of the best sales still around $450+. One obscure ebay plus deal was $409.
@Cunning Linguist: Sorry, I missed your final comment! It is indeed, and that's the kind of price point I'm referring to, as it would have been price matched where required. $409 even with instant gift cards would be $400, as low as $360 for those who are more patient.
@jasswolf: yeah ok interesting perspective. From my view would be a stretch to consider that endemic price drops reflecting future releases, I'd still wager not likely to see prices this low for a while
@Cunning Linguist: Everything's set to leave the station pretty quickly. If you're not interested in ANC, you can get aboard the hype train early if you like!
Good pionts @jasswolf. CES headsets will certainly be a big improvement, and I personally feel that Sony skimped on some features, however….
…For those who jumped on this deal no real dramas - you will easily be able to flip these for more than the $350 you paid and trade up for those sweet CES gains.
you will easily be able to flip these for more than the $350
sealed maybe…do people actually buy second hand headphones?
And the problem flipping sealed headphones is that at least half the market for them are scams/knockoffs. At least they'll have a legit receipt to go with them
APOD (Australian Partners of Defence) member can access JB Commercial as well.
how much is qc45 under commercial site?
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$339 + Delivery From $10.00
Man it would be nice if they had the other colour in these sales
I missed the $350 promo! SADDDDDDDDD
Deal expired? It is showing up as $549 for me
Check with good guys commercial if u have membership
I can see an increase of these on sale on marketplace all of a sudden. Ozbargainers trying to turn a profit. 💰
The 69,420 iq play would be to actually get via tggc at $389 and pay via 15% off gc in store if you got some last deal.
(Found out the hard way :’(