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EverythingProof speaker: Altec Lansing HydraBlast 2.0 Bluetooth Speaker
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May 29, 2025
You want a Bluetooth speaker that can work in the rain, snow, fall in the pool, even tip off a boat and survive, right? One that has really good sound, lights up, and can pair with up to 100 other speakers? Then you'll ❤️ the Altec-Lansing HydraBlast 2.0 EverythingProof Bluetooth Speaker. Tech expert Dave Taylor tests one out, including testing if it's really waterproof and letting you hear the built-in microphone with the unit. From @alteclansing Check it out at: https://amzn.to/4gan5Lt 0:00 Introduction & Water Test 1:41 USB Ports & Qi Wireless Charging 2:20 Specs and Sound 3:00 Built-in Mic Demo 3:54 Music Playback Demo 4:53 Button Tour + Lights Tour 7:13 Two In da Gym Bag 8:59 Pricing and Conclusions Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #alteclansing #bluetooth #speaker #hydrablast #ip67 #askdavetaylor
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this light up Bluetooth speaker is
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everything proof let's check it
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[Music]
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm checking
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out this this is the Altech lensing
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hydroblast 2.0 everything proof speaker
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and let's just start right out by saying
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it is waterproof it floats in water if I
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had a bigger water container it is able
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to handle everything it is in fact ip6
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67 so you could roll it in the mud and
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then hose it off and it'll work just
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fine which also means that if you drop
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it in a pool you don't have to panic so
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all of that is really great you this is
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like the perfect thing for boating or
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even if you just want to lay on an air
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mattress in the pool and you
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accidentally knock it in the water it
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floats how cool is that now it features
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two 10 wat speakers with fite drivers
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and as I said it's ip6 7 and floats and
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it has a ton of different mounts so on
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the bottom there's that/ quar in screw
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you can put it on a tripod if you want
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but they also comes with a bike mount
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you can put it on your bike handlebar
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and it comes with a carabiner that you
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can put on the S so you can just hang it
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from your backpack it's a little heavy
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to hang from your backpack but you could
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do it if you're really motivated and the
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bottom is magnetic as you can see in
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this picture you can put it on any
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magnetic surface in including the side
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of your fridge how helpful is that so um
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the magnets built in all of this stuff
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comes included it also includes a USBC
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to usba charging cable and that goes on
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the side there's a little Hidden Side
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here and you'll notice it has USBC and
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usba so the USBC is to charge the device
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and then the
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usba allows you to plug in devices like
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your smartphone to charge off of this
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battery so it does double duty there but
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that's not all I happen to have my
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iPhone 15 Pro with Chi wireless charging
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and the top of the unit actually offers
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wireless charging too so I see I'm at
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57% right now so it's really really
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flexible with all of these features in
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addition to sound right but ultimately
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it's about the sound so first off 20
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hours of play time when it's fully
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charged takes a while to charge it uh
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but 20 hours that's a long time if you
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want to use it to charge your phone and
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everything it's obviously going to eat
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into that time but that's a respectable
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amount of time if you're still partying
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20 hours later that is a hardcore party
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very impressive now it does have
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Bluetooth obviously that's the primary
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way you're going to connect it with your
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phone and it says 100t range they don't
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specify what version of Bluetooth it is
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but we can assume Bluetooth 5. something
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so it's going to give you better
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connectivity less interruptions very
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handy has a built-in mic in fact let's
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do a quick demo so what I'm going to do
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since it's already paired with my phone
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let's just go to voice and I'm going to
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turn it towards me sorry you can't see
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the um uh lighting for a second
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but now what you're hearing is my voice
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is picked up by the hydro blast 2.0 so
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in addition to all of these music
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features and all of these charging
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features it's also a really fun speaker
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phone and how convenient is that if
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you're on the dock and you're enjoying
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the latest fish that you caught that you
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just cooked up and Grandma calls you can
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put her on speaker phone and just enjoy
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a conversation with her so cool now let
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me switch
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back and it's that easy now having said
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all of that let's have some music so I'm
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going to have it again pointing towards
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me so my microphone will pick up better
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quality audio
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and it is loud it is crisp there's a
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decent amount of Base here for a small
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portable speaker it's very listenable
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and one of the things that's really cool
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about it is it includes Altech lansing's
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party syn so I'm not kidding you can
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pair up to a 100 of these speakers or
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any other alltech Lancing speakers that
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have party sync and they will all work
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off of a single music source so imagine
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now you have these all around your
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Auditorium because everyone's playing
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volleyball but you don't want just one
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little speaker you want to spread it out
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and give a really big full sound it'll
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do that and it's super easy to work with
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so cool now one of the other things I
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want to talk about are the light modes
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but before we get there let me give you
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a quick tour of all the buttons on the
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top cuz that's where all the cool
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stuff's happening they are the power
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play pause button the link button for
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party sync the color changing button Chi
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charging volume down or if you hold and
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wait a couple of seconds previous track
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answer or end call or bring up voice
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assistant and volume up or if you hold
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for a couple of seconds next track so
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everything you can want is controlled
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from the top and having said
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that let's look at these lights so now
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you know which button I'm going to push
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so there are 11 different light modes
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and I think I am on let's see light mode
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number four so I'm going to tell you all
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11 modes and I'm going to push the
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button but probably what you'll see will
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not be what I'm saying because it's you
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got to like get to the right point in
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that cycle of 11 but but they have fade
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between colors pulse to music single
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color and you can use the app to change
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the color if you want and yes there's an
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Altech Lancing app I didn't find it to
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give me a lot of power and capabilities
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with this unit but might be because it's
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still a work in progress these are brand
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new like just came out so more to come
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with that but the app is definitely
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worth getting anyway uh so single color
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bar graph with color step and and circle
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and back and forth and bar graph with
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color step from bottom and fire mode
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vertical and fading colors left to right
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and circle rainbow color and bar graph
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with color step from Center and finally
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off and uh where are we now
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so the challenge is when you're at a
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particular mode you don't really know
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what mode you're at so I just push the
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button until it does something fun and
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interesting
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but really that's everything I got it's
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a really great device it is 4.1 in by
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8.7 in by 5.4 in and it's 2 1/2 lb but
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it still feels pretty darn light and you
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could easily have two of these in for
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example your sports kit and just set
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them up on opposite sides of the gym or
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the field if you want to practice you
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can put them on the edges of your
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basketball court and of course you can
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use them indoors anytime you want but
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that waterproof feature is pretty sweet
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so that makes it weatherproof so you
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could be skiing and you could just set
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these up at the jump that you want to
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practice on or the Moguls or something
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and then just be like every time you get
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near it you hear all the music and then
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you get past it and you go back up and
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you try again so it can handle snow and
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rain and mud and dust and whatever you
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want to PO point at it it is as Altech
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Lansing says everything proof that's a
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pretty bold claim but it's still working
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it's still fully functional even with me
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having dipped it in the water and I'll
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show you that starts right up and then I
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can pause it and I can play we can go to
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the next
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track maybe let's see oh no I only
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picked a single track so there is no
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next track but we can go back to this
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one and play again and it's just a real
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pleasure to to work with I'm going to
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pause it so you can hear
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me really nice design it is definitely
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feels tough and rugged and it feels like
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I could drop this and have it roll down
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the hill and smash into the pond and
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have to me like get it out of all the
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muck or something and hose it off and
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we're good to go so really I think
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that's one of the most important things
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with an outdoor Bluetooth speaker you
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want it to be tough and rugged and it's
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exactly what this is so definitely one
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hope you did excellent this is the
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Altech laning hydroblast 2.0 everything
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proof speaker and it is
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$79.99 currently minus 5% dropping it
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down to
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$75.99 at amazon.com this would
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obviously be slightly big but an
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excellent stocking suffer or a gift and
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I guarantee every teen will enjoy this
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regardless of what kind of music that
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they like so definitely wanted to check
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out it's all I got I'm going to go back
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to my music so I'll catch you in my next
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video
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[Music]
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