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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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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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Gemini FirstMix USB DJ Controller

Contrary to what you believed in college, being a DJ is much more difficult than just being a human iPod. You could just turn on crossfade, pop your collar and go pound PBRs, but eventually someone will turn on the Michael Bolton playlist. When that happens, you lose all music…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gramophone iPod Station

Are there two more depressing words in the English language than "Sold Out"?  Okay, maybe "It's positive," but still, when we find something we want, we hate seeing those red letters holding us back.  The Gramophone iPod Station, while no longer purchasable, is still pretty sweet.  Nothing typifies the balance of…

By Mike Newman
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JBL On Air Wireless

If you're music collection is anything like ours, it's a mess. Four generations of iPods, a few iPhones, some USB drives and computers in more than one location make it more than a little bit difficult to have access to all of our music all of the time. Once you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Swans S3W HiVi Multimedia Speaker System

Traveling with your laptop is no longer a big deal.  They've become lighter and more streamlined and padded bags have flooded the marketplace, many of which we've featured here.  That's all good when you're just going to Starbucks to type out a few documents and run an iTunes shuffle with…

By Mike Newman
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