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and even the honeycomb speaker grill is rigid plastic, not a bendable, dentable fine metal grill you find on most speakers. With an IP65 rating, you shouldn’t be scared to take this speaker outside, which is exactly where it wants to be. The SOUNDBOKS Go reaches pretty absurd volumes for a fully wireless Bluetooth speaker. We’re talking 120+ decibels. It is so loud, that the volume knob literally goes to 11. That volume knob is one of the few elements of the Go that you’ll be interacting with, and it feels great. It’s easily grippable, with satisfying, tactile clicks as you climb up the volume meter. It doubles as the power button, and still doesn’t peek above the aforementioned rubber bumpers, so don’t worry about this mighty knob getting hurt. At 50% volume—which is still pretty freaking loud thanks to the 10” woofer—the SOUNDBOKS Go gets an amazing 50 hours of playback from a single battery charge. At max volume, that number is a more standard 10 hours of playback, still long enough to keep up with your evening rave. If your party just won’t stop, SOUNDBOKS has designed the Go with swappable batteries, so just pop in an extra for an additional 50 hours of playback. (The swappable battery is also a surefire way to extend the longevity of your speaker investment, as battery life is an infamous bottleneck in all of our modern gadgets.) For professional partiers, the SOUNDBOKS Go can connect with up to four other speakers, either the Go or SOUNDBOKS 3, to