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the arc MIDI r2 by fractal design features massive air flow and highly flexible liquid cooling support click now to learn more this my friends is the Belkin thunderstorm which their branding as a handheld home theater and if you check out their website they claim this is the loudest iPad case now not the loudest iPad dock because obviously you can put an iPad or iPod into like any number of massive things these days which for some reason people buy but it's inexplicable to me but anyway docks are apparently a thing but no this is an actual iPad case so Belkin partnered up with odda Phi to make this particular product possible and while from what I've seen the audio quality might not be the best thing you ever heard which makes sense because it is extremely low profile for speakers which have just sort of physical restraints on them in terms of you know how much sound they can produce and how great it can be in terms of their actual size it's apparently not bad either so here is the iPad case itself this particular one is designed for iPads Gen 1 and Gen 2 and they do have a separate option for other more different iPads so the way your iPad fits in I actually happen to have yeah this has been missing for a while I just found my iPad so I'm like super stoked on that so I'm gonna go ahead and take it out of its existing case which is just a slimline case that does not have speakers so it is definitely quieter than this one so all you do is throw the iPad in there I don't throw gently place then lock it in place with the dock connector down there so now it's all you know what I don't think I got it quite in hold on yeah okay well let's find out how to pull it out then there you go so you just pull in it and then you try again ah now it's in there so you just got to get it under the lip here so the iPad should be reasonably well protected so there's kind of a smart coveri looking cover on it they've got apparently some information for the user something about an FCC statement and industry canada and whatnot and whatever oh look at that they have instructions for this so there's instructions on the back that tell you everything that I just told you you can download an app the Thunder app lets you select the optimum audio setting maybe we should do that we'll be back in a moment all right so we installed the app which promptly prompted us to update the firmware actually of the device itself so the app does not too much basically what it allows you to do is change the stereo separation so they have suggested settings for games music movies and voice chats and then it also allows you to preview your settings with a built-in audio clip so they actually use sort of airports throughout the device I shouldn't say airports like like ports for air not like you know like planes and stuff like that not airports but that's basically what allows it to achieve its base enos and it's not bad audio quality let me put it this way is as good or better than those little like you know Bluetooth speakers you can get like the jam box it destroys the jam box I can say that much I'm not a big fan of the jam box by jawbone but something like an antique sp1 I'd say it's probably similar maybe even a touch louder than the sp1 and something I didn't cover yet before is that the way that this folds gives you the option to have a couple of different angles for it so you can fold it like that or you can fold it like it that and it can sort of sit in various different ways depending on what you prefer so let's go ahead and play it so that's maximum volume and I'm talking what I consider to be sort of a louder than normal speaking voice which should give you some idea how loud this thing is and yeah like I said okay audio quality not perfect but is it more practical if you use your iPad for watching movies and listening to music at the beach or whatever else very very frequently than something like a Bluetooth speaker perhaps it is bulky so you're taking something that is sleek and slim like the iPad and you're turning it into a bit of a brick you do have to remember to charge it however 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 speaker kind of pokes through the front cover here and it will at as well will if nothing else also keep your iPad from getting damaged so it's quite thick on the back so that's sort of the flipside of that accessing the headphone port looks like it's gonna be a bit of a challenge if your headphones use a right angle connector however if they use a straight connector you should be fine you charge it here the lock button is here your other more different rotation lock buttons here volume up and down is there and then you can it looks like you're actually gonna have to pop it out in order to access the dock connector so this is more like the kind of thing that you'd keep in your beach bag and for your iPad in when it's the appropriate time this also disconnects magnetically as you would expect if you're a Smart Cover user which I am not so I was not expecting that if you liked the video click like the video if you just liked the video click dislike the video if you were totally impartial to the video then I guess go join the Linus tech tips comm forum because it's awesome then you can discuss your impartiality with the other people there who will definitely want to talk to you don't forget to subscribe - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos