Outdoor Tech Turtle Shell 2.0

Portable, sleek and water resistant, the Turtle Shell 2.0 is an Active Junky favorite—especially at the $80 price. While the Turtle Shell 2.0 can fill a room with sound, we recommend you bring it to the beach and compete with the roaring surf or to the campsite and drown out the crackling fire. In fact, Outdoor Tech claims the Shell (96 decibels) is louder than a bear’s roar (90 decibels). As fearless as they may be, Active Junky gear reviewers weren’t willing to test this theory, having recently watched Leonardo DiCaprio duke it out with a mamma Grizzly in The Revenant. All jokes aside, this easy-to-use speaker has plenty of standout features: a 32-foot Bluetooth Range, 16 hours of playback, a microphone, intuitive controls to answer calls—to name a few. Mount it to your bike (yeah, they’ve got a Turtle Claw for that), bring it in the shower or strap it to your backpack on that next weekend overnight. Really, you can’t go wrong.

Tester Quote: “I’ve gotten this thing pretty wet, dropped it and lugged it across continents and it’s still going strong. Sound is pretty good and the price is right.”