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The Arc midi R2 by fractal design features massive air flow and highly

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flexible liquid cooling support click now to learn more this my friends is the

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belon thunderstorm which they're branding as a handheld home theater and

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if you check out their website they claim this is the

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loudest iPad case now not the loudest

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iPad Dock because obviously you can put an iPad or iPod into like any number of

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massive things these days which for some reason people buy but it's inexplicable

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to me but anyway docs are apparently a thing but no this is an actual iPad case

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so Belin partnered up with aify to make

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this particular product possible and while from what I've seen the audio

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quality might not be the best thing you ever heard which makes sense because it

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is extremely low profile for speakers

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which have just sort of physical restraints on them in terms of you know

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how much sound they can produce and how great it can be in terms of their actual

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size it's uh apparently not bad either

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so here is the iPad case itself this

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particular one is designed for iPads gen 1 and Gen 2 and they do have a separate

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option for other more different iPads so the way your iPad fits in I actually

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happen to have this has been missing for a while I

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just found my iPad so I'm like super stoked on that so I'm going to go ahead

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and take it out of its existing case which is just a Slimline case that does

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not have speakers so it is definitely quieter

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than this one so all you do is throw the iPad in there don't throw gently place

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then lock it in place with the dock connector down there so now it's oh you

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know what I don't think I got it quite in hold on just okay well let's find out

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how to pull it out then there you go so you just pull in it and then you try

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again ah now it's in there so you just got to get it under the lip here so the

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iPad should be reasonably well protected so there's kind of a smart covery

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looking cover on it they've got apparently some information for the user

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something about an FCC statement in IND industry Canada and whatnot and whatever

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oh look at that they have instructions for this so there's instructions on the back that tell you everything that I

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just told you you can download an app the Thunder app lets you select the

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optimum audio setting maybe we should do that we'll be back in a moment all right

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so we installed the app which promptly prompted us to update the firmware

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actually of the device itself so the app does not too much basically

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what it allows you to do is change the stereo separation so they have suggested

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settings for Games music movies and voice chat and then it also allows you

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to preview your settings with a built-in audio clip so they actually use sort of

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airports throughout the device I shouldn't say airports like like ports

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for air not like you know like planes and stuff like

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that not airports but uh that's basically what allows it to achieve it

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Basin and it's not bad audio quality let

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me put it this way is as good or better

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than those little like you know Bluetooth speakers you can get like the

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jam box it destroys the jam box I can say that much I'm not a big fan of the

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jam box by Jawbone uh but something like an antech sp1 I'd say it's probably

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similar maybe even a touch louder than the sp1 and something I didn't cover yet

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before is that the way that this folds gives you the option to have a couple of

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different angles for it so you can fold it like that or you can fold it like

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that and it can sort of sit in various different ways depending on what you

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prefer so let's go ahead and play

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it so that's maximum volume and I'm talking what I'd consider to be sort of

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a louder than normal speaking voice which should give you some idea how loud

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this thing is and uh yeah like I said okay audio quality not perfect but is it

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more practical if you use your iPad for watching movies and listening to music

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at the beach or whatever else very very frequently than something like a

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Bluetooth speaker Perhaps it is bulky so

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you're taking something that is Sleek and slim like the iPad and you're

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turning it into a bit of a brick you do have to remember to charge it however

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should be noted that you don't have to keep it open all the time so this is something I didn't notice before but the

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speaker kind of pokes through the front cover here and it will at as well it

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will if nothing else also keep your iPad from getting damaged so it's quite thick

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on the back so that's sort of the flip side of that accessing the headphone

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Port looks like it's going to be a bit of a challenge if your headphones use a

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right angle connector however if they use a straight connector you should be fine you charge it here the lock button

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is here your other more different rotation lock buttons here volume up and

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down is there and then you can looks like you're actually going to have to

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pop it out in order to access the dot connector so this is more like the kind

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of thing that you'd keep in your beach bag and throw your iPad in when it's the

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appropriate time this also disconnects magnetically as you would expect if

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you're a smart cover user which I am not so I was not expecting that if you liked

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