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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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The BoomCase

With all the bags you own, it's probably been quite some time since you had a hard suitcase. You're not the only one that occasionally needs to squish things under a seat or in the overhead just to get stuff across the country, so there's a surplus of vintage hard-sided…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Beat Box Portable Music System

Back when MP3 players were relatively new, a wave of portable music systems came out capitalizing on the trend. These little plastic things ran off a couple of batteries, or perhaps just a big wound up rubber band, and could be toted to the beach, the tailgate, or anywhere that…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Bose VideoWave System

Bose Audio is known for... well, audio. You've probably wandered in to one of their showrooms and been impressed by the big sound coming from a set of speakers the size of sugar cubes. We're not sure how they do this--elfish pixie dust, probably--but the results speak for themselves. Bose…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Powerbeats In-Ear Headphones

If you were going to base a headphone purchase on a celebrity recommendation, who would it be? Katy Perry? Halloween costumes for the lady maybe, but not headphones. Kanye? Yeah, right. How about Dr. Dre? Yeah, that's what we were thinking too. Dre teamed up with Monster (yeah, the crazy…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audyssey South of Market iPhone Dock

When it comes to gadgets, bells and whistles are all that matter. If they didn't, you would still be rocking a Startac instead of that app happy, death grip susceptible, toilet entertainment device known as the iPhone. The same goes for your dock. Why just have speakers and charging when…

By Cooper Fleishman
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