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Harman Kardon, Inc. 250 Crossways Park Drive, Woodbury, NY 11797 Designed, edited and digitally produced by the Harman Consumer Group Marketing & Design Center Woodbury, NY Part No. HKLITUSA5/08 Printed in USA 516.255.HKHK (4545) FAX 516.682.3520 www.harmankardon.com ©2008 Harman International Industries, Incorporated. SPRING/SUMMER 2008 CATALOG HOME/CAR/MULTIMEDIA All rights reserved.
Harman Kardon, Inc. 250 Crossways Park Drive, Woodbury, NY 11797 Designed, edited and digitally produced by the Harman Consumer Group Marketing & Design Center Woodbury, NY Part No. HKLITUSA5/08 Printed in USA 516.255.HKHK (4545) FAX 516.682.3520 www.harmankardon.com ©2008 Harman International Industries, Incorporated. SPRING/SUMMER 2008 CATALOG HOME/CAR/MULTIMEDIA All rights reserved.
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... are, still going strong after more than 50 years, still headed by our founder, Dr. Sidney Harman, and still following our own path, in our own way. WELCOME As a consumer electronics company, the Harman Kardon® brand dates back to digital. With features that often broke new ground, and performance that 's... the way it . And yet here we always wanted it still is. 04 * iPod touch not included. 05 Over the years, landmark Harman Kardon products led the transition from vacuum tubes to solid state, from mono to hi-fi, and from analog to the days of monaural sound and...
... are, still going strong after more than 50 years, still headed by our founder, Dr. Sidney Harman, and still following our own path, in our own way. WELCOME As a consumer electronics company, the Harman Kardon® brand dates back to digital. With features that often broke new ground, and performance that 's... the way it . And yet here we always wanted it still is. 04 * iPod touch not included. 05 Over the years, landmark Harman Kardon products led the transition from vacuum tubes to solid state, from mono to hi-fi, and from analog to the days of monaural sound and...
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And we've always been quick to adopt and improve on any good ideas we 've been setting a series of very good examples for more than 50 years. TECHNICAL PHILOSOPHY Harman Kardon products were delivering high bandwidth before most people realized it happens. 06 07 Many of ourselves. Technology leaders can only lead by example, and we didn't actually think of the technologies found in today's finest amplifiers were introduced in Harman Kardon audio equipment. It doesn't happen often, you understand, but it was a good thing.
And we've always been quick to adopt and improve on any good ideas we 've been setting a series of very good examples for more than 50 years. TECHNICAL PHILOSOPHY Harman Kardon products were delivering high bandwidth before most people realized it happens. 06 07 Many of ourselves. Technology leaders can only lead by example, and we didn't actually think of the technologies found in today's finest amplifiers were introduced in Harman Kardon audio equipment. It doesn't happen often, you understand, but it was a good thing.
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Harman Kardon A/V receivers employ the industry's most advanced technologies to optimize the audio and video clarity of buttons. Yet even certified technophobes will discover that they can operate them successfully. 09 AT HOME 08 AUDIO/VIDEO RECEIVERS A maximum number of options, a minimum number of any entertainment source, old or new.
Harman Kardon A/V receivers employ the industry's most advanced technologies to optimize the audio and video clarity of buttons. Yet even certified technophobes will discover that they can operate them successfully. 09 AT HOME 08 AUDIO/VIDEO RECEIVERS A maximum number of options, a minimum number of any entertainment source, old or new.
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...technology should serve users, not intimidate them. AVR 154 5 x 30W 5.1-Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI Switching The Harman Kardon AVR 154 is the most affordable Harman Kardon receiver to feature both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ decoding on the audio side, and Faroudja DCDi...x 50W 7.1-Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI 1.3a Repeater, Audio/Video Processing and Upscaling to 1080p The AVR 254 is all about ease of all Harman Kardon A/V receivers, the AVR 254 features a high-current, ultrawide-bandwidth design for maximum fidelity. But the AVR 154 is a perfect case in point...
...technology should serve users, not intimidate them. AVR 154 5 x 30W 5.1-Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI Switching The Harman Kardon AVR 154 is the most affordable Harman Kardon receiver to feature both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ decoding on the audio side, and Faroudja DCDi...x 50W 7.1-Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI 1.3a Repeater, Audio/Video Processing and Upscaling to 1080p The AVR 254 is all about ease of all Harman Kardon A/V receivers, the AVR 254 features a high-current, ultrawide-bandwidth design for maximum fidelity. But the AVR 154 is a perfect case in point...
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Thanks to -read on-screen or front-panel messages. Let the (gloriously uninterrupted) music begin. 12 iPod touch not included. 13 guided by easy-to The Bridge II docking station, connection and control are completely within your power. The Bridge II connects directly to Harman Kardon The Bridge-ready products and allows you to use your iPod? / DOCKING STATION FOR iPod The Bridge II Docking Station for iPod Is your home entertainment system incomplete without music from your system's remote to seamlessly select and play audio and video content -
Thanks to -read on-screen or front-panel messages. Let the (gloriously uninterrupted) music begin. 12 iPod touch not included. 13 guided by easy-to The Bridge II docking station, connection and control are completely within your power. The Bridge II connects directly to Harman Kardon The Bridge-ready products and allows you to use your iPod? / DOCKING STATION FOR iPod The Bridge II Docking Station for iPod Is your home entertainment system incomplete without music from your system's remote to seamlessly select and play audio and video content -
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We weren't looking to find a marketing niche for music. These days, Harman Kardon, Inc., has a business plan, R&D labs and a marketing department - we heard. We built our very first systems for people who could hear what we were looking to build audio components that satisfied our own passion for ourselves - everything a prestigious company should have. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY We didn't start with a product. But we're still building systems for ourselves and a handful of others who hear what we started with a business plan in 1953 - we hear. 14 15
We weren't looking to find a marketing niche for music. These days, Harman Kardon, Inc., has a business plan, R&D labs and a marketing department - we heard. We built our very first systems for people who could hear what we were looking to build audio components that satisfied our own passion for ourselves - everything a prestigious company should have. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY We didn't start with a product. But we're still building systems for ourselves and a handful of others who hear what we started with a business plan in 1953 - we hear. 14 15
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Time marches on, and Harman Kardon products march with their eyes closed. Today, we 're not zealots. Our HK 3490 offers digital audio inputs and Dolby Virtual Speaker technology, among other 21st-century innovations. STEREO RECEIVERS Introduced 50 years ago this year, the Harman Kardon Festival TA 230 was the world's first stereo receiver. We're passionate, to be sure, but we continue to keep the audio faith with a choice of powerful stereo receivers engineered by and for people who prefer to be entertained with it. 16 17
Time marches on, and Harman Kardon products march with their eyes closed. Today, we 're not zealots. Our HK 3490 offers digital audio inputs and Dolby Virtual Speaker technology, among other 21st-century innovations. STEREO RECEIVERS Introduced 50 years ago this year, the Harman Kardon Festival TA 230 was the world's first stereo receiver. We're passionate, to be sure, but we continue to keep the audio faith with a choice of powerful stereo receivers engineered by and for people who prefer to be entertained with it. 16 17
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... to make beautiful music and, like all specialists, it's very good at what it does to time. It features high-current, ultrawide bandwidth amplification, a signature Harman Kardon technology that delivers all the subtlety of choice. But even specialists enjoy a change of multichannel extras (digital-audio inputs, video switching, dual subwoofer outputs and...
... to make beautiful music and, like all specialists, it's very good at what it does to time. It features high-current, ultrawide bandwidth amplification, a signature Harman Kardon technology that delivers all the subtlety of choice. But even specialists enjoy a change of multichannel extras (digital-audio inputs, video switching, dual subwoofer outputs and...
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We know upgrading isn't always a joy. Do try all of the earliest Harman Kardon products - are still in the reproduction of today's digital sources, you 'll notice the difference. DVD 48 DVD-Audio/Video and SACD™ Player with ... and WMA files. The DVD 48 makes it easy. 20 21 some of our earliest CD and DVD players are surely among the most advanced Harman Kardon DVD players, the DVD 48 is among them pushing 50 by Faroudja® technology, and offers unsurpassed fidelity in use today, and some of the...
We know upgrading isn't always a joy. Do try all of the earliest Harman Kardon products - are still in the reproduction of today's digital sources, you 'll notice the difference. DVD 48 DVD-Audio/Video and SACD™ Player with ... and WMA files. The DVD 48 makes it easy. 20 21 some of our earliest CD and DVD players are surely among the most advanced Harman Kardon DVD players, the DVD 48 is among them pushing 50 by Faroudja® technology, and offers unsurpassed fidelity in use today, and some of the...
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... It has long been a dream to the attic. As awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. and CD storage racks - behold the Harman Kardon Digital Media Center. It will even let you send up to four different audio selections to other rooms of digital storage technologies and formats, serving...
... It has long been a dream to the attic. As awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. and CD storage racks - behold the Harman Kardon Digital Media Center. It will even let you send up to four different audio selections to other rooms of digital storage technologies and formats, serving...
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Which means Harman Kardon multiroom systems are only ideal for you. 24 25 All include assignable rear-channel amplifiers, all offer a second-zone control system, and the AVR 354 includes a second-zone remote control. MULTIROOM PRODUCTS One-room systems are easy to set up and use. So go ahead, spread out and enjoy yourself. Your Harman Kardon entertainment system will be there for one-room apartments. All Harman Kardon 7.1-channel AVR receivers are built with multiroom applications in mind.
Which means Harman Kardon multiroom systems are only ideal for you. 24 25 All include assignable rear-channel amplifiers, all offer a second-zone control system, and the AVR 354 includes a second-zone remote control. MULTIROOM PRODUCTS One-room systems are easy to set up and use. So go ahead, spread out and enjoy yourself. Your Harman Kardon entertainment system will be there for one-room apartments. All Harman Kardon 7.1-channel AVR receivers are built with multiroom applications in mind.
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...IR remote control only makes sense. more ABH 4's = many people hiding Harman Kardon components behind closed doors, but just in an A-BUS®-equipped Harman Kardon product and make its key caps are swappable, to mirror your stay? The AB 2 connects to your home. May domestic bliss and your local speakers ... 4 = four rooms; We don't know of many more rooms. With A-BUS-equipped Harman Kardon products, the more ABH 4's you have got you the option of your AVR from the AB 1. 26 27 The AB 2 has an infrared sensor to relay your every wish to four different input sources (including...
...IR remote control only makes sense. more ABH 4's = many people hiding Harman Kardon components behind closed doors, but just in an A-BUS®-equipped Harman Kardon product and make its key caps are swappable, to mirror your stay? The AB 2 connects to your home. May domestic bliss and your local speakers ... 4 = four rooms; We don't know of many more rooms. With A-BUS-equipped Harman Kardon products, the more ABH 4's you have got you the option of your AVR from the AB 1. 26 27 The AB 2 has an infrared sensor to relay your every wish to four different input sources (including...
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It's also been one of excess or decoration. The Harman Kardon team believes that would be icing on the cake. We borrowed it from Robert Browning. We could go on and on about this, but that good design consists of essential elements presented in architecture, music and design. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Mies van der Rohe borrowed "less is more" from Mies. Minimalism has long been a major force in their purest form, with an absence of our guiding principles from the very beginning. We don't do icing. 28 29
It's also been one of excess or decoration. The Harman Kardon team believes that would be icing on the cake. We borrowed it from Robert Browning. We could go on and on about this, but that good design consists of essential elements presented in architecture, music and design. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Mies van der Rohe borrowed "less is more" from Mies. Minimalism has long been a major force in their purest form, with an absence of our guiding principles from the very beginning. We don't do icing. 28 29
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... theater speaker systems make this simple for dialogue, and a powered subwoofer. As you probably know, a 5.1-channel speaker system consists of Harman Kardon HKTS speaker packages. 30 31 Except the center ought to be voice-matched to the satellites, the sub shouldn't overpower the center or the satellites, ...
... theater speaker systems make this simple for dialogue, and a powered subwoofer. As you probably know, a 5.1-channel speaker system consists of Harman Kardon HKTS speaker packages. 30 31 Except the center ought to be voice-matched to the satellites, the sub shouldn't overpower the center or the satellites, ...
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IN THE CAR 34 CAR SOLUTIONS We're one of the world's leading suppliers of major manufacturers. our products are found in your budget this year, our elegantly designed and easy-to-use products mean you can still enjoy superb Harman Kardon sound in the premium cars of automotive audio and infotainment systems; But even if a Logic 7 multichannel audio system isn't in your car. 35
IN THE CAR 34 CAR SOLUTIONS We're one of the world's leading suppliers of major manufacturers. our products are found in your budget this year, our elegantly designed and easy-to-use products mean you can still enjoy superb Harman Kardon sound in the premium cars of automotive audio and infotainment systems; But even if a Logic 7 multichannel audio system isn't in your car. 35
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...are only a download away. Its full-browse music player will let you know, so you can quickly calculate an alternate route. The Harman Kardon GPS-810 has it all -in real-time-traffic* receiver will provide the soundtrack to get you where you need to virtually any other...4" Portable Navigation System The GPS-310 is to -Speech. An innovative, mount-anywhere wireless controller. And all , their eyes off the road. All Harman Kardon Guide + Play™ GPS navigation and entertainment products offer turn-by-turn directions to go. * Subscription required (first 90 days free). 37 But ...
...are only a download away. Its full-browse music player will let you know, so you can quickly calculate an alternate route. The Harman Kardon GPS-810 has it all -in real-time-traffic* receiver will provide the soundtrack to get you where you need to virtually any other...4" Portable Navigation System The GPS-310 is to -Speech. An innovative, mount-anywhere wireless controller. And all , their eyes off the road. All Harman Kardon Guide + Play™ GPS navigation and entertainment products offer turn-by-turn directions to go. * Subscription required (first 90 days free). 37 But ...
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The innovative Harman Kardon Drive + Play™ 2 system gives you generate your favorite tunes along for the ride. And it offers full access to audio tracks located on all ... audio systems. Browse by artist, album, song, genre or composer. And the Apple iPod is designed to bring your own music mixes and control additional Harman Kardon accessories. Scroll through a built-in -car media-player interfaces. / CONTROL FOR iPod DRIVE + PLAY™ 2 Your car is a great place to listen to the next...
The innovative Harman Kardon Drive + Play™ 2 system gives you generate your favorite tunes along for the ride. And it offers full access to audio tracks located on all ... audio systems. Browse by artist, album, song, genre or composer. And the Apple iPod is designed to bring your own music mixes and control additional Harman Kardon accessories. Scroll through a built-in -car media-player interfaces. / CONTROL FOR iPod DRIVE + PLAY™ 2 Your car is a great place to listen to the next...
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... began with your local retailer, where you can pick up a piece of Modern Art. ON THE GO 40 MULTIMEDIA SOLUTIONS For the last 10 years, Harman Kardon, Inc., along with key computer manufacturers such as Apple, Dell, Compaq and Toshiba, has been leading the way in the design and supply of high...
... began with your local retailer, where you can pick up a piece of Modern Art. ON THE GO 40 MULTIMEDIA SOLUTIONS For the last 10 years, Harman Kardon, Inc., along with key computer manufacturers such as Apple, Dell, Compaq and Toshiba, has been leading the way in the design and supply of high...
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... + Play™ High-Performance Portable Loudspeaker Dock for iPod Understated, sublimely functional industrial design. The Harman Kardon Go + Play™ loudspeaker dock is the loudspeaker dock that perfectly matches the clarity of the sound. And a museum-... and make your favorite music sound better when it . Eight full-range transducers. Plug-and-play compatibility with virtually any multimedia device. The Harman Kardon SoundSticks II system brings a new level of use. / MULTIMEDIA SOLUTIONS SoundSticks® II Self-Powered Satellite Speakers and Subwoofer System Clearly superior....
... + Play™ High-Performance Portable Loudspeaker Dock for iPod Understated, sublimely functional industrial design. The Harman Kardon Go + Play™ loudspeaker dock is the loudspeaker dock that perfectly matches the clarity of the sound. And a museum-... and make your favorite music sound better when it . Eight full-range transducers. Plug-and-play compatibility with virtually any multimedia device. The Harman Kardon SoundSticks II system brings a new level of use. / MULTIMEDIA SOLUTIONS SoundSticks® II Self-Powered Satellite Speakers and Subwoofer System Clearly superior....