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DemerBox Speakers Are Five Pounds of Sound You Can Take Anywhere

The DB2 is built for tunes on the go.

The DemerBox DB2.
Photographer: Sarah Anne Ward for Bloomberg Businessweek

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By Antonina Jedrzejczak

October 27, 2020 at 8:42 AM UTC

This article is part of the November 2, 2020 issue of businessweek.

When a three-time Grammy winner gets so excited about a speaker he decides to buy the company that created it, it’s time to listen up. In 2017 country crooner Zac Brown took a DemerBox on a spearfishing trip to Belize and came back ready to invest. No wonder: The Bluetooth-powered DB2 speaker ($349) offers more than 40 hours of lithium-ion battery life and 100 feet of range, from a box that weighs only 5 pounds. Its hard-shell, military-grade Pelican 1300 case opens up to stash your wallet and keys, so it does double duty as an entertainment system and a dry bag. The two 3-inch, 8-ohm, aluminum-cone speakers are offset by a retro-looking selection of colors (such as Haast orange, pictured) in a bold rectangular shape, so it stands out in a category awash in black and gray cylinders.

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