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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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Libratone Speaker

Ah those crazy Danish. They've come up with another great piece of design. The Libratone Speaker is completely wireless, but unlike other wireless speakers, sound quality is not sacrificed. Its unique design projects sound not just forward and out but behind as well, reflecting off nearby walls and creating a…

By Wylie Overstreet
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XtremeMac Tango TRX iPhone Dock

At any given point in time you could walk into the nearest store and buy some crazy accessory, gadget, attachment, or condom for an Apple device. We weren't paying attention when Prof was talking about market saturation but we assume it's something along the lines of the current Apple accessory…

By Cooper Fleishman
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80’s Boombox Portable Digital Music Player

Not much good came out of the eighties. Any positive cultural additions (the films of John Hughes, The Ferrari Testarossa, Cindy Crawford) were mitigated by an overwhelming number of bad additions (leg warmers, synth pop, any and all hairstyles). Boomboxes were an exemplary positive addition, but with the advent of…

By Wylie Overstreet
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iPod Nano Watch Band

Within moments of Apple introducing the iPod Nano, two things happened. One, the entire population of Apple fanboys--pale, bespectacled young guys with a well-established Pavlovian erection response to Steve Jobs' black turtleneck--let out a collective orgasmic sigh. And two, accessory manufacturers, pondering at the Nano-as-Wristwatch product possibilities, let out a…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Edifier Aurora 2.1 Speakers

Tangy Orange. Spicy Red. Passion Pink. Luminous Yellow. No, those aren't the names of the flavors in the as-of-yet unreleased Starburst Fruity Drink package, they're the colors the Edifier Aurora 2.1 Speakers come in. Also in the lineup: liquid silver, asphalt grey, midnight blue, and every other color Crayola never…

By Cooper Fleishman
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