Between November 1 and 3, 28 products joined Thomann's catalog. 25 carry recent article numbers, so they are new models or versions; the other three are older listings back in stock. 20 of the 28 are guitars, basses and their gear.
A Steinway from 1939
Steinway & Sons M-170, $36,665
The most expensive arrival is not new at all. Thomann lists a Steinway M-170 grand built in 1939 and rebuilt by its own Steinway specialists and master piano builder, at $36,665 (€32,690). It is 170 cm long, weighs 275 kg, has a black polished finish and comes with a piano stool.
Guitars: PRS Wood Library, Dean, Sterling
PRS Wood Library Custom 24 Stoptail LTD, $7,850
PRS added five limited Custom 24s from its Wood Library at the same $7,850 (€6,999), one per finish. The specs Thomann lists: a black limba body under a flamed maple 10 top, a figured maple neck, a ziricote fingerboard with green abalone bird inlays and a stoptail bridge instead of the usual tremolo.
- Sterling's StingRay Baritone, $1,008 (€899), has a 27.5-inch scale, a roasted maple neck and two ceramic humbuckers.
- Dean brought five Floyd Rose guitars at $672 (€599): four Razorback X finishes and an MLX in black.
- Taylor's Builder's Edition 914ce, a limited Grand Auditorium with a sinker redwood top and Macassar ebony back and sides, arrived as a B-stock listing at $7,177 (€6,399).
Friedman VX: a top-boost head and its cabinet
Friedman VX-30 Head, $3,364
A 30-watt head with four EL84 power tubes, a tube rectifier and the two channels of a British top-boost amp, Normal and Brilliant, which can be combined. $3,364 (€2,999). The matching VX-212 cabinet, made in the USA, is open-back with two Celestion Alnico Blue speakers, at $1,793 (€1,599).
Studio: Steven Slate, Behringer, Barefoot
Steven Slate Audio VSX Horizon One, $492
Steven Slate's closed-back headphones come in three listings. The Essentials edition, $492 (€439), includes four modelled rooms and four studio headphone models. The Platinum edition, $728 (€649), adds a much longer list of studios, mastering rooms, cars and clubs. A loyalty version at $369 (€329) comes without a software license, for people who already own one. In the same week, Thomann cut the open-back VSX Immersion One by 30%.
- Behringer's BE-1B, $526 (€469), is a single-channel tube optical compressor in a 2U rack case, with a ratio from 2:1 to 10:1 and a VU meter.
- Barefoot Sound's LFE12 studio subwoofer, $4,710 (€4,199), uses two opposing 12-inch woofers and goes down to 17 Hz.
Smaller things
- Peterson's StroboStomp EVH Edition, a strobe tuner pedal with an EVH look, at $223 (€199).
- Behringer's Zentara Overdrive-SR, an analog overdrive with germanium clipping diodes, at $77 (€69).
- A left-handed Ibanez GSRM20 short-scale bass with a 28.5-inch scale, at $279 (€249).
- Flight's Songbird concert ukulele with a solid flamed maple top and a pickup, at $649 (€579).
What left: 96 listings, 25 of them Fender
96 listings dropped out of Thomann's catalog between November 1 and 3, 32, 29 and 35 a day. 76 were guitars, basses and their gear. Some will come back when restocked, the way three of this week's arrivals did.
Fender had 25 of them. Ten were the Tone Master Pro modeller and nine bundles built around it, along with three American Ultra II guitars and a '65 Stratocaster Relic from the Custom Shop. Outside Fender, an Adams Alpha marimba at $22,900 (€20,498), a Martin Custom Shop D-18, a Neumann M147 tube microphone set and a Ramirez Guitarra del Tiempo classical guitar left the list.
Where the numbers come from. Thomann's partner feed, which we read every night. A product counts as new on the day it first appears in the feed; recent article numbers mark new models, older ones are listings that came back. A product counts as gone when it has been missing from the feed for two days. Specs are from Thomann's product descriptions.
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Denis Kataev runs AudioFu. Every night the site records the prices of more than 38,000 instruments and studio tools at Thomann, and he writes about what those numbers show: what got cheaper, what just arrived, and which discounts are real.
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