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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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Amazon’s New Echo Studio Smart Speaker Actually Sounds Good

As much as we've grown to rely on the convenience and the myriad of features available with Amazon Echo devices--you know what we're talking about if you've ever attempted to yell at Alexa to set an alarm while you're in a hotel--the one thing they've always been missing is quality…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fender X Leica Limited Edition Guitars and Cameras

In case you're not familiar with the name Andrew James Somers--better known as Andy Summers--he's an accomplished, Grammy-winning musician that's the former guitarist of The Police. He's also a renowned photographer who has displayed works at the likes of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Beaux Arts Gallery and Milk…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Braun Is Getting Back into the Audio Game with a New Line of Speakers

Six decades ago around 1959, Braun released the Dieter Rams-designed LE1 speaker, the first electrostatic mode loudspeaker available on the German hi-fi market. After being absent from the audio business for almost thirty years since then, Braun is getting back into the speaker game with an all new line of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Sonos Finally Made a Portable Speaker

Whether you're talking about smarthome speakers, multiroom audio or TV soundbars, there's no denying that Sonos makes some of the most stylish and advanced audio options on the market. The one thing the brand was missing until today was a portable speaker designed to let you take your Sonos listening…

By Cooper Fleishman
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adidas Just Got into the Headphones Game

adidas--aka the three stripes, aka the maker of some of the most comfortable shoes we wear on a regular basis--has decided to get into the headphones game with not one but two different stylish options that perform as well as anything else on the market. The adidas FWD-01 Sport In-Ear…

By Cooper Fleishman
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