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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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The History of Headphones

Surprisingly, not everyone wants to hear our music. When we were pumping our LCD Soundsystem mixtape, others in the office said they couldn’t “concentrate” and they “wished we were fired.” For this, and for many other reasons, headphones are an absolute necessity in our daily lives. It was long before…

By Mike Newman
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Tombox

There are plenty of ways to listen to your music when you’re not within arms’ reach of a wall outlet. Most of them don’t look, or perform, anywhere near as good as the ones from Tombox. The Germans take discarded loudspeakers and repurpose them as portable amplifiers. Each Tombox is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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1Q Bluetooth Sound System

Depending on your home's design, the current wave of Bluetooth speakers might not fit in with their surroundings. If you have a rustic theme running through your rooms, a Jambox will seem as out of place as Jet Li in a romantic comedy. The 1Q is an ideal alternative if…

By Mike Newman
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Mikros 70 Reference In-Ear Headphones

The biggest issue we have with most in-ear headphones is they don't stay in place properly, and we aren't about to go in a store and ask to put them in our waxy ear canals before buying them. With the Mikros 70's from MartinLogan, it's a non-issue. Each set comes…

By Mike Newman
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Parrot Zik Wireless Headphones

If you haven't been able to tell recently, we've kinda got an unhealthy obsession with headphones. We gladly sifted through tons to put this together, and here we are less than a week later with another pair we gotta tell you about. Parrot's offering is jam-packed with goodies. They've got…

By Mike Newman
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