Longer reads built on our own numbers: brands, lines and the market behind the gear.
Stories · Nov 6, 2026
In eleven weeks, 1,266 new models joined Thomann's catalog, not counting bundles, B-stock and old listings that came back. Almost two thirds were guitars and basses, more than half arrived in October, and one brand added more than the next one by a third.
Stories · Nov 5, 2026
These four names sit on most home-studio desks. At the 5-inch size they are within $45 of each other, from JBL's $156 to ADAM's $201 per speaker. Where they differ is in how much people want them, what extras they bring, and which way their prices are moving.
Stories · Nov 5, 2026
Thomann sells 877 guitar and bass models in two or more colors. 256 cost the same whatever the finish. In the other 621, the cheapest and the dearest color are a median 6.6% apart, and sometimes the reason isn't the paint at all.
Stories · Nov 4, 2026
Thomann sells thousands of bundles: a guitar with an amp, a pair of monitors with pads, a wireless system with a headset. We added up the separate prices of everything inside 373 of them. Most save you lunch money. A few are real deals.
Stories · Nov 3, 2026
We ranked the 42 DJ controller families Thomann sells and looked at who wins. Hercules has the most models and the top spot, Roland the best record, Rane the high end. And the brand most DJs think of first doesn't appear at all.
Stories · Nov 2, 2026
Yamaha lists 122 digital and stage pianos at Thomann, Kawai 78. On numbers Yamaha wins easily, but in our ranking of home digital pianos Kawai holds six of the top 10 places, while Yamaha owns the portable end.
Stories · Nov 2, 2026
We have recorded the price of every product in Thomann's catalog every night since August 17. Most never changed. The ones that did tell you when waiting pays off, and when it costs you money.
Stories · Oct 30, 2026
Behringer's Model D costs 4% of a new Minimoog, and its other clones cost a third or less of the originals still on sale. With 65 synths and drum machines at a median of $269, Behringer has reshaped what a synth costs.
Stories · Oct 30, 2026
The median Les Paul-style guitar at Thomann costs $1,456, a third more than the median Strat-style. Every shape by price, with the cheapest and the highest-ranked of each.
Stories · Oct 29, 2026
Four interface brands, four territories. Arturia wins the cheap USB boxes, Universal Audio Thunderbolt, RME PCIe cards and Focusrite networked audio. The world's best-known interface sits outside the top 10.
Stories · Oct 29, 2026
Four amp brands, four territories. Fender owns tube combos, Marshall heads and big cabinets, Orange small heads and cabs, Boss modeling amps. And the #1 tube combo is none of them.
Stories · Oct 28, 2026
Three synth brands, three strategies. Korg dominates big keyboards, Roland the grooveboxes, and Behringer fills the budget end and Eurorack. The #1 general synthesizer belongs to none of them.
