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Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer
By Beau Hayhoe
Audio Nerds Love This $900 Japanese Headphone Amp
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Audio Nerds Love This $900 Japanese Headphone Amp

The generation that grew up with compressed MP3s is suddenly discovering all they've been missing.

By Kahron Spearman
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The Nocs Monolith Aluminum Is the Best Designed Bluetooth Speaker We’ve Ever Seen

Nocs Design returns with a stunning all aluminum edition of its Monolith Bluetooth speaker.

By John A. Paradiso
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The Beats Pill Bluetooth Speaker Is New, Improved, and Affordable

The Beats Pill now comes equipped with a 24-hour battery life.

By John A. Paradiso
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Aiaiai TMA-1 DJ Headphones

How do you a judge the effectiveness of a pair of DJ headphones? According to Jon Schumann (Mannhandle's music production god) it has to be able to withstand a night of "playing very loud, getting very drunk, and getting stepped on" and the Aiaiai TMA-1 is the first product that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Micro USB Car Charger

Disregard the misleading title: this is not a tiny USB device that somehow charges your car.   No, this little device plugs into the cigarette lighter port (which, ironically, hasn't been manufactured in vehicles as an actual cigarette lighter in ages), and presents a female USB port into which you can plug…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Etón Soulra iPod Speakers

A day at the beach is best accompanied by music, but battery-powered iPod speakers die too quickly and sound like a kazoo. So Eton decided to make the Soulra, a set that endlessly powers good speakers with a giant, spherical, thermonuclear fusion bomb. Some folks call it "The Sun", but…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Moshi Moshi 04i

While cell phones have brought us mobility and sexting, we do long for the days when we could hold a proper handset up to our heads. Moshi Moshi apparently feels similar, as they've designed a ninja boomerang, er, iPhone dock and handest that connects to your device(s) via Bluetooth. It…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Sony PIIQ Headphones

When was the last time you seriously considered buying a Sony product? Generally you have no choice but to buy stuff from the big guys *cough* Apple *cough* but Sony has been relatively quiet in the consumer electronics market as of late. Fortunately for us, this time it was for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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