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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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Zumreed Hybrid Speaker Headphones

How many different ways do you have to get your music off of your cell phone into your ears? How about out of your computer? Between the earbuds or headphones with all the hyperneodidium dynamamic-super-hyperactive whosits and the speakers with the built-in bass whatsits, the number is astronomical. They're all…

By Cooper Fleishman
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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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