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The kit I carried

9 countries. 5 weeks. 3000+ photos. Lot’s o’gear.

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted June 7, 2013
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I’ve been travelling a bunch this year, with two big trips to Europe and China. Like my 10 Tips to the Travelling Techy last year, I brought along a bunch of gear, some good, some bad, some invaluable. I guess you could call this 10 Tips to the Travelling Techy 2, except it's eight.

So if you’re planning any trips this summer, check out this list of some tech gear to bring.

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Expertise

For What It's Worth

Stop, hey, what’s that show? FWIW grooves on cool gear and memorabilia.

By Gary Dell'abate
Posted June 7, 2013

Yes, I readily admit it: I I am a TV junkie. I watch a ton of shows, and I go through different phases of what I’ll binge on.

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Gear

Bowers & Wilkins and Maserati Quattroporte “Seven Notes”

High-end car-fi

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted June 7, 2013

To celebrate their teaming up, B&W and Maserati enlisted the help of musician and producer Howie B to create the Seven Notes project. To celebrate that, they’re putting on a multi-city road show featuring live music, and a chance to check out the B&W system in the new Quattroporte.

Fellow Tech2er Brent and I trekked down to Hollywood to have a listen.

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Gear

Test Report: Jamo S 35 HCS speaker system

Can Jamo's strange new speakers deliver well-rounded sound?

By Daniel Kumin
Posted June 6, 2013
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Physicists have long postulated that an ideal sound reproducer would behave as a pulsating sphere. Ever since, the wish being father to the thought, speaker designers have been cramming transducers into balls, as if making the cabinet round would somehow magically make the sound spherical.

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Test Report: Onkyo TX-NR727 A/V Receiver

Everything you need, for under $1,000.

By Daniel Kumin
Posted June 5, 2013

How much would you pay for an A/V receiver? For a lot of people, the answer is “$899.” This upper-mid-price sweet spot has long marked the point at which AVR-manufacturers sell the most product. Consequently, it’s where they offer the most features, performance, and power for the lowest possible dollar amount.

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Gear

Review: RockSteadyXS

Can this built-like-a-tank Bluetooth speaker really deliver 100 dB?

By Brent Butterworth
Posted June 5, 2013
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Bluetooth speakers are like cheap econobox cars: Even in normal daily use, you’re likely to push them to their limits. Most of the compact Bluetooth speakers I test put out 81 to 87 dB at 1 meter, loud enough for casual listening but not loud enough to get your foot tapping and your head bobbing.

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Expertise

Devon Allman's Turquoise Soul

The ever-grooving son of Gregg has the blues in his blood — and now it's spilled over onto wax. (That's vinyl, y'all.)

By Mike Mettler
Posted June 4, 2013
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"It's rich. It's got depth that you'll never get from an MP3, and it's just cool, man. It's got more soul." That's Devon Allman, talking about one of our favorite subjects, vinyl.

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