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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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Yamaha EPH-100 Headphones

Not since third grade and that bumper bowling party has it been cool to have things bouncing off the walls on the way to their intended destination. It's cool for racquetball or squash because, well, that's kind of the point. Ok, and hockey too. The point is, you don't want…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Sony SA-NS500 HomeShare Portable Speaker

At this point in time, it's harder to get us interested in another speaker/dock/super-universal-totally-versatile-sound-system than it is to get us to a dry wedding. Sony actually piqued our interest with the new HomeShare Portable Speaker for more than one reason. First, it's not ugly. It's AirPlay enabled (No iDevice? Just…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Logitech Mini Boombox

It seems like every time we open an internet browser we're being bombarded with the latest and greatest iPod / iPhone / iPad dock. We haven't played with all of them, but when you see 15 of them a week it's safe to say they aren't all good. And what…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Yamaha PDX-11 Portable Speaker

It's been a long time since there was a product we were willing to buy 6 AA batteries for. Once you hit a certain age in life (post GI Joe/Transformers/TMNT) you don't even really expect Christmas presents to need batteries. Yamaha is going old school with the boom box style…

By Cooper Fleishman
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AirCassette App

The 80s are back in a big way. Vinyl is cool again. Casio made a huge comeback with their G-shock watches. Even the new music coming out these days has a decidedly 80s feel to it. The only thing we're really missing is the classic cassette tape. Mix tapes have…

By Cooper Fleishman
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