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Audio Nerds Love This $900 Japanese Headphone Amp
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Audio Nerds Love This $900 Japanese Headphone Amp
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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Marshall Celebrates 100 Years of the Iconic Celestion Speaker With a Limited-Edition Amp

Marshall pays tribute to the speaker that started it all.

By John A. Paradiso
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Kikkerland Music Branch Headphone Splitter

We strongly discourage the practice of becoming ear-buddies with your friend. It's the term we've made up for when you want your friend to hear a new track you just downloaded onto your iPhone and you lend him one of your earbuds. What results is a returned earbud full of your now…

By Mike Newman
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iBamboo Electricity-Free Speaker

If you need a serious speaker system to blast whatever garage rock or hip-hop you've got loaded on your iPhone, the iBamboo is probably not the ideal unit for you.  However, if you like to chill-out with some jazz, classical or ancient Gregorian Chant (shot in the dark) the electricity-free…

By Mike Newman
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UCube USB Speakers

If you use your desktop or laptop to listen to music (who doesn't these days) you definitely feel our pain when it comes to affordable, quality options for speakers. We didn't have a problem shelling out over a grand for a laptop, but we expected a little more in the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audyssey Lower East Side Media Speakers

Analog is supposedly far superior to digital in everything but convenience. Call us lazy, but being able to access damn near our entire library of music with something smaller than a pack of smokes (that also happens to make phone calls) is worth the sacrifice. With the Audyssey Lower East…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Clingo Parabolic Sound Sphere

If there's one thing we learned from that drunken night we stole a traffic cone and ran around the streets shouting nonsense it's how the right shape can amplify sound so perfectly (also that Mind Erasers are a bit too delicious).  The parabolic shape of this aptly named Parabolic Sound Sphere…

By Mike Newman
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