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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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Ion Portable USB Turntable and Cassette Deck

Don't look now, but cassette tapes are making a comeback. It was bound to happen. Despite their inefficiencies, hipsters were bound to hop on the old school mixtape bandwagon eventually. Now that indie labels are releasing tapes again, you can listen along with your other retro music means, the turntable. This…

By Mike Newman
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Nixon The Stylus Headphones Surplus Green

Making any product available in a camo colorway all but assures that it will be successful in today's landscape. Rather than just slapping some forest or woodland camo on their already popular The Stylus headphones, Nixon deconstructed the standard colors a little bit and then applied them to the headphones.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Urbanears Slussen

The Slussen from Urbanear is officially the tiniest DJ setup ever. Instead of a pair of Technics, a mixer, and a case full of vinyl, it lets you do play DJ right from your phone. Simply carry around the little splitter dongle on your keychain, pop it into your phone's…

By Mike Newman
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OD-11 Cloud Speaker

If you ask almost anyone what the most influential sneaker of all time is, they're probably going to say Nike Air Force Ones. If you didn't own a pair when you were little, you dreamed about it. If you did own a pair, you guarded those things with your life,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Palmer Acoustic iPhone Dock

The guys at Palmer started working on this product because they love iPhones, design and music. We're sold because we love all of those things too. It just so happens that their acoustic iPhone dock (4 / 4S / 5 compatible) is better than what we would have even imagined…

By Cooper Fleishman
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