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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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BRAVEN 710

When it comes to rugged and manly Bluetooth speakers, BRAVEN has the market covered. Their latest speaker, the BRAVEN 710, continues the trend. No fear of taking it with you into the great outdoors as its both water-resistant and crafted from aircraft-grade aluminum. Of course that wouldn't matter if it…

By Mike Newman
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Nocs NS900 Live Headphones

Any pair of headphones that took two years to be developed are probably going to be some finely-tuned audio devices. Either that, or they are going to be terrible and the company kept screwing things up for 24 months. Knowing Nocs, the new NS900 Live Headphones will be the former.…

By Mike Newman
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P.A.C.O. Bluetooth Speaker with Gesture Controls

The P.A.C.O. Bluetooth Speaker is the closest you'll come to being able to use the Force for the time being. The concrete and fir board speaker allows you to control your music and audio with the wave of a hand. Based on hand positioning and movement, you can change tracks,…

By Mike Newman
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Looper Voice Recorder

There are some products that are so intuitively simple and amusing that you can't help but love them. The Looper Voice Recorder is one of those products. If we had any electrical engineering skill whatsoever we'd have wish we made it. Even if we did, it wouldn't have come out…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Libratone Loop

Most Bluetooth wireless speakers that function with AirPlay, PlayDirect or DLNA are concerned about things like being waterproof, available in a Big Box of colors or some other novelty that we know exists but can't quite think of right now. Until now, there hasn't really been an "affordable" (quotes because…

By Cooper Fleishman
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