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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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aFrame Artwork Speaker

Even if you buy some small Bose unit or a sleek audio set up, your speaker system is still going to stand out as a speaker system. With aFrame acoustic artwork your music blasters can go all undercover ops as a nice piece of wall art. The aFrame is a…

By Mike Newman
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Boomphones Boombox Headphones

There's always that one person on the plane, train or automobile that feels like it's necessary to take their new Carly Rae Jepsen to volume level 11 and let everyone around them enjoy it too. The problem with that, though, is that it's never really loud enough to actually enjoy.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Libratone Zipp AirPlay Speaker

If you want a portable, wireless speaker for your iDevice of choice, it's not that hard to find one that will fit the bill. You have plenty of options for bluetooth or Airplay (or, technically, Airplay using bluetooth), but few of them have the bonus features that the Libratone Zipp…

By Cooper Fleishman
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iLP iDevice Turntable

There are plenty of devices on the market that will convert your vinyl to a more transportation friendly digital format, but most of them require a computer. So, once all your Hendrix vinyls are converted you're still going to need to transfer them to your iPhone/iPod/iPad. The iLP iDevice Turntable…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Harman Kardon SoundSticks Wireless

Harman Kardon has been producing awesome audio equipment since before there was even a Cool Material, and they've done quite a few pairs in the crystalline style of the fortress of solitude. No other pair has been as glaringly beautiful as the SoundSticks though, and that's probably why they're a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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