Black Friday studio monitor deals 2024: The Black Friday sales are still live
Think you've missed out on a Black Friday deal? Think again. Here are the best sales and deals that are still live
1. Quick links
2. Editor's picks
3. FAQ
4. Shopping tips
5. How we choose
6. Why trust us
7. Last year's deals
Black Friday is officially over, but your chances of bagging a cheap pair of studio monitors aren't. There are still loads of sales hanging around for Cyber Weekend, and as one of the crucial components of music-making it isn't too late to pick up an awesome deal.
I've got years of experience recording and have used various systems from professional-level monitors to pokey home studio setups. I've always been a big fan of Yamaha's HS series and for those recording at home, you can get some big discounts on studio monitor bundles including the HS series.
You can also bag some great savings at Musician's Friend, who are boasting savings of up to 50% on monitors in their Black Friday sale. It includes discounts on Adam Audio, Focal, PreSonus, and JBL, so plenty to sink your teeth into.
I'll be rounding up all the best deals right here for you throughout Cyber Weekend until Cyber Monday arrives. If you're looking for a deal then, you should go check out our Cyber Monday music deals page for all the latest deals on studio monitors.
Black Friday studio monitor deals: Quick links
Below you'll find all today's best Black Friday studio monitor sales:
Amazon: Studio monitor deals
B&H Photo: Loads of studio savings
Guitar Center: Up to 50% off
Musician's Friend: Up to 60% off
Reverb: Up to 80% off
Sweetwater: Up to 80% off
Andertons: Black Friday has arrived!
Gear4Music: Clearance deals
PMT: Up to 70% off early BF deals
Thomann: Huge Cyber Week sale
Editor's picks
Yamaha HS monitors: Up to $125 off at Sweetwater
The Yamaha HS Series trucks in the successes of Yamaha’s iconic studio speakers past, bringing quality reference monitor tech to the sub-$500 price range. Yamaha’s HS5 monitors are perfect for the small space (and our top pick for mixing in our studio monitors guide), and all the more perfect for their Black Friday discount price of $149.99 per speaker; the HS8i speakers, meanwhile, are hefty in sound and price, ideal for wall-mounting over your desk in larger studio spaces - and yours for $115 off.
Monitors this cheap have no business being this good. Adam Audio has squeezed 25 years of experience building monitors found in professional studios and control rooms into a product that's within reach of the average bedroom beatmaker, and it shows. The brand's proprietary U-ART tweeters and HPS waveguide are based on the design of their upmarket four-figure speakers, giving you pro sound at an accessible price point.
A brilliant choice for beginner producers and engineers, the PreSonus Eris 3.5BT are a brilliant pair of budget studio monitors. With a $20 discount at Guitar Center, they're less than $150 for a pair which is excellent value for money. We love the front-mounted controls and the addition of Bluetooth connectivity on these.
With a $50 reduction for a single JBL 306P MkII 6.5" monitor, you'll be saving $100 if you double up for a pair. At $300 for two, it's excellent value for a quality pair of monitors, perfect if you're getting a bit more serious about your home recording setup.
A serious studio monitor for serious music-makers, the IK Multimedia iLoud Precision 6 delivers lovely controlled tone for mixing. A single monitor has currently got a huge $300 discount at Musician's Friend, which represents a serious $600 saving if you go for a pair. Coming with ARC system for properly calibrating them to your room, this is a great studio monitor to go for if you want to properly up your recording game.
Black Friday studio monitor deals: FAQ
When will the Black Friday studio monitor deals land?
For 2023, the Black Friday monitor deals will officially arrive on Friday, November 24 - the day after Thanksgiving and less than a month before Christmas. As usual, the deals will extend across that weekend (also known as Cyber Weekend) before the Cyber Monday music deals finish the event with a bang on Monday 27 November.
Now, we've covered Black Friday for long enough to know that many of the best Black Friday studio monitor deals will emerge in the weeks leading up to the big day, some as early as mid-October - and better yet, many deals stick around well after the event and into December. If a pair of monitors is a bit rich for someone's Christmas present, we have more affordable ideas in our guide to the best Christmas gifts for musicians.
What deals should I expect?
We’ll be keeping a close eye on the big music retailers throughout October and November, scouring the internet for the very best Black Friday studio monitor deals we can find.
Based on last year's evidence, the Thomann Black Friday sale, Guitar Center Black Friday sale, Sweetwater Black Friday sale, and Musician's Friend Black Friday sale are the places to go if you are looking for a tasty deal on a new pair of monitors. Every year we see stellar discounts applied to all categories of monitors, from portable powered speakers, to high-end studio workhorses.
We've been covering the Black Friday music deals for years now, so you can rest assured our teams will be hunting down the best offers before anyone else and sharing them with you first.
Here's a flavour of the types of deals you can expect to see this year.
- Single item - A single product with a great discount
- Site-wide discounts - A single discount percentage on a large range of products across a site
- Discount codes - Load your basket to a certain value and redeem a discount code for money off your basket contents
- Added value deals - These include multi-buy discounts, or additional products or software for free when you buy certain items
Studio monitor shopping tips for Black Friday
Got your eye on a pair of monitors and wondering whether Black Friday is the time to buy? Here are a few tips from our personal experience that will ensure you're ready to strike if the gear you want is up for grabs:
1. Streamline your current gear - Do you have enough space in your collection for new gear? This is the first thing to address before you buy anything. If the answer is no, then could you offload some gear you don't use to make room? Even better, doing this can help generate funds for some new gear, so it's well worth going through this process.
2. Set your goals - What do you want to achieve with your music over the next 12 months or so? Do you want to gig more? Learn a new instrument? Or finally record your songs? Now could be the time to invest in gear that helps you fulfill your musical aspirations.
3. Create a wishlist early - The most sensible way to take advantage of this year's Black Friday studio monitor deals is to know in advance what you’re looking for. This will make searching much easier, rather than having to trawl through loads of deals you don’t want to find the ones you do, or pondering things you don't need. This also helps you keep your focus during Black Friday weekend, as there will be a lot of noise in your feed.
4. Sign up to mailing lists - In addition to bookmarking this page, we'd recommend signing up to mailing lists of your favourite retailers now to get the jump on the best deals when they do come around.
How we choose the best Black Friday studio monitor deals
First and foremost, we are music creators ourselves, and we want to match like-minded folk with the right products for them. We review gear throughout the year, which gives us a great overview on what's great and what isn't, forming the backbone of our recommendations.
For us to recommend a deal on music gear it has to be a product we rate that’s a genuinely great price or part of a truly fantastic bundle. Because we see the prices of items year-round, we're also able to spot when a retailer increases the RRP to the launch price to try and make it look like a better deal than it really is.
For that reason, it's important that we only recommend retailers where you will have a positive shopping experience. We're only going to recommend you somewhere we'd be willing to shop ourselves, which is why you'll typically see us linking out to bigger retailers in the music industry.
Why you can trust us
We spend a lot of our time scouring music retailers for fantastic deals on our favorite music gear. Not only is it our job to research and recommend the best gear in our buyer’s guides and reviews, but we’re also dedicated to helping musicians get the best deals on the stuff they need, too. After all, the only thing better than New Gear Day is New Gear Day with a hearty discount.
We cover a lot of the big sales events throughout the year, including Memorial Day, 4th of July sales and Amazon Prime Day, and we have a good view on which products are likely to receive the biggest discounts and when, the prices they’ve been in the past and which deals are genuinely worth a look.
Last year's Black Friday studio monitor deals
PreSonus Eris E4.5 BT: Now only $119.99 per pair
The compact Eris E4.5 BTs are perfect for content creators, gamers and producers alike with their small footprint, 4.5" woven composite woofer, 1" silk-dome tweeter, kicking 50w of class A/B power. Right now you can get hold of a pair at Sweetwater with a massive $80 off.
Price check: Amazon $119.99
Yamaha HS5 studio monitors: $199, now $149 (each)
Inheriting their aesthetic from Yamaha’s classic NS10 monitors, the comparisons should end there. That’s because the Yamaha HS5 are designed to be trustworthy reference speakers. They feature highly in our best studio monitors buyers guide, and here you can save $50 on each speaker (that’s a $100 saving if you buy a pair).
Focal Shape 65 6.5” powered monitors: $899, $809
We love the Focal Shape 65 for its workhorse, dependable performance that you can rely on time and time again. Plus, where else will you get a walnut veneer with $90 off? Do your mixes a favour and buy them while they’re cheap at Guitar Center.
Price check: Sweetwater $809 | Amazon $809
M-Audio BX8 D3 monitors: Now just £99 each
If you were looking for a solid 8-inch monitor in last year's maze of Black Friday offers, then you didn't have to look further than the BX8 D3 monitors from Thomann. Sold in singles, the BX8 D3s were 23% off and just £99 each.
Avantone Pro Gauss 7: $201 off
The Pro Guass 7 active monitors are that perfect mix of vintage snap with the bandwidth and frequency response of a modern reference monitoring system. Last Black Friday you could claim a pair at Guitar Center for just $599.
Kali Audio LP-8 V2 (single): $50 0ff
Kali Audio's Lone Pine series has been hugely popular the world over and for good reason. A lot of which is to do with the keen price point. Now the range has been improved in a variety of areas making them even better value. Combined with a further drop in price for last Cyber Weekend this was an unmissable deal. At Sweetwater, you could enjoy a saving of $50 on individual monitors leaving you shelling out just shy of $300 for a pair of these LP-8s.
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Yamaha HS monitors: Up to $125 off at Sweetwater
The Yamaha HS Series trucks in the successes of Yamaha’s iconic studio speakers past, bringing quality reference monitor tech to the sub-$500 price range. Yamaha’s HS5 monitors are perfect for the small space (and our top pick for mixing in our best studio monitors guide), and all the more perfect for their Black Friday discount price of $149.99 per speaker; the HS8i speakers, meanwhile, are hefty in sound and price, ideal for wall-mounting over your desk in larger studio spaces - and yours for $115 off.
Yamaha HS monitors: Up to $125 off at Sweetwater
The Yamaha HS Series trucks in the successes of Yamaha’s iconic studio speakers past, bringing quality reference monitor tech to the sub-$500 price range. Yamaha’s HS5 monitors are perfect for the small space (and our top pick for mixing in our best studio monitors guide), and all the more perfect for their Black Friday discount price of $149.99 per speaker; the HS8i speakers, meanwhile, are hefty in sound and price, ideal for wall-mounting over your desk in larger studio spaces - and yours for $115 off.
Monitors this cheap have no business being this good. Adam Audio has squeezed 25 years of experience building monitors found in professional studios and control rooms into a product that's within reach of the average bedroom beatmaker, and it shows. The brand's proprietary U-ART tweeters and HPS waveguide are based on the design of their upmarket four-figure speakers, giving you pro sound at an accessible price point.
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Matt is a Junior Deals Writer here at MusicRadar. He regularly tests and reviews music gear with a focus on audio interfaces, studio headphones, studio monitors, and pretty much anything else home recording-related. Matt worked in music retail for 5 years at Dawsons Music and Northwest Guitars and has written for various music sites including Guitar World, Guitar Player, Guitar.com, Ultimate Guitar, and Thomann’s t.blog. A regularly gigging guitarist with over 20 years of experience playing live and producing bands, he's performed everything from jazz to djent, gigging all over the UK in more dingy venues than you can shake a drop-tuned guitar at.
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