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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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Bowers & Wilkins P3 Headphones

There are two types of music fans: The casual fan who is okay listening to their tracks through some cheap-o headphones they got at a convenience store, and those that actually care about the quality of their audio. While the latter side can go to extremes, we'd align ourselves more…

By Mike Newman
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Spotify for iPad

Spotify has single-handedly changed the way we digest music. We love Grooveshark because the annoying IT guy won't let us install anything on our computers, and it's great for making Mixtapes, but it won't work on our iDevices. With Spotify you don't have to worry about syncing your iPhone or…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Rocketfish iPad Bluetooth Speaker

Rocketfish, otherwise known as the Best Buy house brand, doesn't make too many new-fangled gadgets and doohickeys that you haven't seen before. But since they have a name like Best Buy behind them, what they can do is make all the stuff you were already thinking about buying for a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Big Jambox

When Jawbone decided to make a bigger version of the Jambox, we can only assume that after hours of debating names someone half-jokingly tossed out, "What about 'Big Jambox?'" At that the team, so tired from crafting a kick-ass product, responded with a, "Fine, now can we please get some…

By Mike Newman
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Cubik Speakers

Even if you could get perfect sound from a pair of speakers, if they were bright pink and had pictures of Hannah Montana on them (that's what the kids are watching these days, right?) we would never buy them. Are we image obsessed? Hell yeah we are. Is it too…

By Mike Newman
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