 The ArcMidi R2 by Fractal Design features massive airflow and highly flexible liquid cooling support. Click now to learn more. This my friends is the Belkin Thunderstorm which they're 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 Autify 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 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... This has been missing for a while. I just found my iPad so I'm like super stoked on that. So I'm going to 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. 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 on 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, covery looking cover on it. They've got apparently some information for the user. Something about an FCC statement in 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. Alright. 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 chat. 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 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 bassiness and it's not bad. Audio quality, let me put it this way, is as good or better than those little Bluetooth speakers you can get like the Jambox. It destroys the Jambox. I can say that much. I'm not a big fan of the Jambox by Jawbone. But something like an Antec 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 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'd 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, it 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 it 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 flip side of that. Accessing the headphone port looks like it's going to 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 going to 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 throw 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 like the video, click dislike the video. If you were totally impartial to the video, then I guess go join the LinusTechTips.com forum because it's awesome. And you can discuss your impartiality with the other people there who will definitely want to talk to you. Don't forget to subscribe LinusTechTips for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos.