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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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Roku 2 Media Streamer

Be completely honest here people, if you still pay for cable TV you only do it to get your sports fix (potentially to host a Super Bowl party) and watch Food Network with the lady (we secretly watch it even when she's not around.) Between Netflix and Hulu, the mobile…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Sennheiser Audiophile Headphones

Audiophiles are like beer snobs are like foodies. In this day and age, we're all guilty on some level of checking "all of the above" when it comes to our taste in the finer things. Even though these new Sennheiser headphones don't boast an ABV count above 20% or molecular…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Bowers & Wilkins C5 Headphones

If you're in the market for a new pair of headphones you have more options than Don Draper at a secretary convention.  First you have to make the initial decision of whether you are going in-ear or not.  If you are, just be forewarned that many of the possible canal-fillers…

By Mike Newman
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Acoustic Lab Zeta 2.0 Speakers

We make no bones about the fact that there are a lot of speakers that can easily be classified as cool material. Some of them do double duty as headphones and speakers. Some of them wirelessly receive audio. Some of them are so far out of the box it's hard…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio-Technica AT-SPG51 Rugged Speaker

All the best parties have music. It doesn't matter if it's a barbecue, a club banger or a barmitzvah, there's always music. Your playlist might not be the most popular one in existence, but that doesn't mean you don't have a right to play it - especially if you're the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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