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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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OYO Ballo Speaker

As you're well aware, we're all about the latest and greatest. Mini-computers with fruit badges worn as watches. TVs that come with their own glasses. Entertainment systems that connect to wi-fi, your home computer, and stream your definitely-not-pirated movies to you on your phone half way across the wold. But…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Orbit Turntable

We like vinyl. The sound, the thrill of the hunt, the nostalgia (for a period we weren't alive to enjoy the first time) and the sheer cool factor of it. We're not going to pretend to understand the science of why a unipivot tonearm and an Ortofon moving magnet cartridge…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Peavey AT-200 Auto-Tune Guitar

If you're just starting out and haven't reached Slash-like levels yet, tuning your guitar can be a royal pain in the ass. Assuming you haven't developed the ear for it, whipping out a tuner and tightening up the strings can take up a bit of your precious time. With the…

By Mike Newman
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Bose Solo TV Sound System

Long before white Apple gear, we remember being amazed by tiny cube speakers from Bose. They were one of our first true pieces of audio love. Now, the company that holds a special place in our ears and hearts has given us an awesome TV sound system setup with a…

By Mike Newman
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Aedle VK-1 Headphones

Plenty of companies set out with lofty goals, uncompromising ideas and that last little bit of something that they need to create an awesome product. Most of them don't succeed. And Aedle? Well, damn. Have you seen these headphones? After years in development, the Aedle VK-1 Headphones (both the Classic…

By Cooper Fleishman
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