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Written by Ben Branch |
September 30th 2015
BoomCase have been building custom boomboxes since 2009, the company specialises in taking old suitcases and converting them into portable stereos with their own lithium ion battery systems, bluetooth and headphone jack connectivity, and a built-in amplifier.
The Prospector BoomCase you see here has been built using a former carpenter’s box, it has 2 full range point source drivers, 2 dome tweeters, 18 hours of battery life and it measures it at 10″ x 8″ x 5″ with a weight of 9 lbs.
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Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with well over a million monthly readers from around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
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