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51 DemerBox just did a three hundred unit giveaway with the USO with their branded logo on it. The USO is America's oldest military nonprofit that gives back to the servicemen and women. The DemerBoxes are for those who are deployed overseas who needed a speaker that they can't break. The product has a Class D amplifier chip rated at twenty watts per channel made by Maxim. It's limited closer to ten watts per channel so to not blow the speakers. It's been measured at 96DB output at three feet. James continues, "You can fill a small room. We have updat- ed the DemerBox, calling it the DB2, with two speakers and we've revamped the circuit board and the switches with a battery indicator, so now you know when your battery's get- ting low. You can pair multiple boxes via Bluetooth. We've added digital signal processing (DSP) so we have better high frequencies." They are about to launch a redesign of the original mono DemerBox, the DB1. It's rated at eighty percent of the vol- ume of the larger DB2 even though it's half the size. The DemerBox has multiple uses, for example at Video Village, if everyone doesn't want to be on headsets or in the client van, they can listen to the audio that's being transmitted from the picture vehicle. James says, "The easy way is to make our product in China. There's a reason that no other portable speaker manufac- turer is making their product in the United States. It's a commitment, but it's something that both Zac and I share, and we're employing Americans who are working hard, and are skilled, and really care about our brand." The company is so successful that James Demer has given up sound mixing doing this full time and is home for his wife and older daughter. James concludes, "It's definitely nice to not live out of a suitcase." James on Survivor Working on the DemerBox circuit board The DemerBox has multiple uses, for example at Video Village, if everyone doesn't want to be on headsets or in the client van, they can listen to the audio that's being transmitted from the picture vehicle.