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if you're looking for a Bluetooth speaker at the top of its class in bass response loudness durability and battery life this box has you covered I'm Justin new for CNET and this is a first look at the Deemer box big bang so the idea for this speaker came from James Deemer who was working as a sound mixer at the time and needed a portable sound system for shoots on location he had the idea to build the Bluetooth wireless boom box into the lid of a Pelican case and went to Kickstarter to get the initial funding for production well fast forward a few years and several prototypes later and the deeper box is shipping around the world but they're all still made locally in Portland Maine so if you're not familiar with Pelican cases here's what you need to know they were favorite accessory for military law enforcement photographers and anyone else transporting delicate items because they're super tough the copolymer propylene is built to withstand hard impact water dust dirt and basically anything else you could throw at it the two speakers and the circuit board are built into the lid alone so you still get plenty of room inside to store whatever you want I usually put cables and the wall charger inside but you can put whatever else you want in there to the battery life for this speaker is really incredible - the website says it can last up to 40 hours on a single charge and in my testing I found that to be accurate I brought it to a camping trip for a weekend and we played it all day and night for three days and it lasted the entire time conveniently enough there's also an open USB port inside the lid as well that you can use to recharge your smartphone or other devices on the other hand one downside to that is there's no way to tell how much juice you have remaining in the battery so you know how most bluetooth speakers sound okay when you turn up the volume half way and get worse eventually as you turn it up well that doesn't happen with the Big Bang the 2 8 ohm speakers on the front gets super loud but more importantly there's no base distortion or a blown out middle section at full volume and part of the reason for that might be because of the empty cavern inside there's a base port on the front too that when exposed emulates the design of a subwoofer and allows air pressure to release out of it the base hits so hard that you can actually feel a kick of air coming out with Beate it's really impressive for a wireless speaker and it sounds a lot better than competing Bluetooth speakers in this price range so you can check out more details about this in my full review on CNET but that's gonna do it for this video you just took a first look at the Deemer box big bangs with speaker thanks for watching