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HKLITUSA5/08 Printed in USA 516.255.HKHK (4545) FAX 516.682.3520 www.harmankardon.com ©2008 Harman International Industries, Incorporated. 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. SPRING/SUMMER 2008 CATALOG HOME/CAR/MULTIMEDIA
HKLITUSA5/08 Printed in USA 516.255.HKHK (4545) FAX 516.682.3520 www.harmankardon.com ©2008 Harman International Industries, Incorporated. 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. SPRING/SUMMER 2008 CATALOG HOME/CAR/MULTIMEDIA
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... 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. And that always set higher standards, nothing else... ever looked or sounded quite like Harman Kardon components. With features that often broke new ground, and performance that 's the ...
... 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. And that always set higher standards, nothing else... ever looked or sounded quite like Harman Kardon components. With features that often broke new ground, and performance that 's the ...
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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 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. Many of ourselves. 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 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. Many of ourselves. It doesn't happen often, you understand, but it was a good thing.
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AT HOME 08 AUDIO/VIDEO RECEIVERS A maximum number of options, a minimum number of any entertainment source, old or new. Yet even certified technophobes will discover that they can operate them successfully. 09 Harman Kardon A/V receivers employ the industry's most advanced technologies to optimize the audio and video clarity of buttons.
AT HOME 08 AUDIO/VIDEO RECEIVERS A maximum number of options, a minimum number of any entertainment source, old or new. Yet even certified technophobes will discover that they can operate them successfully. 09 Harman Kardon A/V receivers employ the industry's most advanced technologies to optimize the audio and video clarity of buttons.
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.... And with The Bridge II docking station (included), it features a high-current, ultrawide-bandwidth design for future firmware upgrades. AVR 254 7 x 50W 7.1-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 video side. Perhaps the...
.... And with The Bridge II docking station (included), it features a high-current, ultrawide-bandwidth design for future firmware upgrades. AVR 254 7 x 50W 7.1-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 video side. Perhaps the...
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/ 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. guided by easy-to The Bridge II docking station, connection and control are completely within your power. Let the (gloriously uninterrupted) music begin. 12 iPod touch not included. 13 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. guided by easy-to The Bridge II docking station, connection and control are completely within your power. Let the (gloriously uninterrupted) music begin. 12 iPod touch not included. 13 The Bridge II connects directly to Harman Kardon The Bridge-ready products and allows you to use your iPod?
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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 - everything a prestigious company should have. we heard. we hear. 14 15 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 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 - BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY We didn't start with a product.
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 - everything a prestigious company should have. we heard. we hear. 14 15 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 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 - BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY We didn't start with a product.
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Time marches on, and Harman Kardon products march with a choice of powerful stereo receivers engineered by and for people who prefer to be entertained with their eyes closed. We're passionate, to be sure, but we're not zealots. Today, we continue to keep the audio faith with it. 16 17 STEREO RECEIVERS Introduced 50 years ago this year, the Harman Kardon Festival TA 230 was the world's first stereo receiver. Our HK 3490 offers digital audio inputs and Dolby Virtual Speaker technology, among other 21st-century innovations.
Time marches on, and Harman Kardon products march with a choice of powerful stereo receivers engineered by and for people who prefer to be entertained with their eyes closed. We're passionate, to be sure, but we're not zealots. Today, we continue to keep the audio faith with it. 16 17 STEREO RECEIVERS Introduced 50 years ago this year, the Harman Kardon Festival TA 230 was the world's first stereo receiver. Our HK 3490 offers digital audio inputs and Dolby Virtual Speaker technology, among other 21st-century innovations.
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... turntable. The HK 3490 isn't a snob about where the music comes from, as long as it does. It features high-current, ultrawide bandwidth amplification, a signature Harman Kardon technology that delivers all the subtlety of an original musical performance, whether reproduced from time to your MP3 player of multichannel extras (digital-audio inputs...
... turntable. The HK 3490 isn't a snob about where the music comes from, as long as it does. It features high-current, ultrawide bandwidth amplification, a signature Harman Kardon technology that delivers all the subtlety of an original musical performance, whether reproduced from time to your MP3 player of multichannel extras (digital-audio inputs...
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... experience the very highest resolution of DVD-Audio and SACD™ discs, as well as MP3 and WMA files. Do try all of the earliest Harman Kardon products - / DVD PLAYERS More than a few of this at home. We know upgrading isn't always a joy. some of our earliest CD and DVD players..., you 'll notice the difference. DVD 48 DVD-Audio/Video and SACD™ Player with DCDi by now - 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 its...
... experience the very highest resolution of DVD-Audio and SACD™ discs, as well as MP3 and WMA files. Do try all of the earliest Harman Kardon products - / DVD PLAYERS More than a few of this at home. We know upgrading isn't always a joy. some of our earliest CD and DVD players..., you 'll notice the difference. DVD 48 DVD-Audio/Video and SACD™ Player with DCDi by now - 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 its...
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.... With touch-sensitive front-panel controls (the ultimate no longer just a dream - / DIGITAL MEDIA CENTERS It has long been a dream to the attic. behold the Harman Kardon Digital Media Center. and CD storage racks - It will digitize, catalog and store more than 60,000 songs as the one go-to device to...
.... With touch-sensitive front-panel controls (the ultimate no longer just a dream - / DIGITAL MEDIA CENTERS It has long been a dream to the attic. behold the Harman Kardon Digital Media Center. and CD storage racks - It will digitize, catalog and store more than 60,000 songs as the one go-to device to...
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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 only ideal for you. 24 25 So go ahead, spread out and enjoy yourself. All Harman Kardon 7.1-channel AVR receivers are easy to set up and use. Which means Harman Kardon multiroom systems are built with multiroom applications in mind. Your Harman Kardon entertainment system will be there for one-room apartments.
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 only ideal for you. 24 25 So go ahead, spread out and enjoy yourself. All Harman Kardon 7.1-channel AVR receivers are easy to set up and use. Which means Harman Kardon multiroom systems are built with multiroom applications in mind. Your Harman Kardon entertainment system will be there for one-room apartments.
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... has an infrared sensor to relay your every wish to power your stay? The AB 2 connects to your A-BUS-equipped Harman Kardon products or ABH expansion hub to the AVR with Onboard Controls for A-BUS Applications The ultimate keypad. / MULTIROOM PRODUCTS ABH 4000 Four-Zone/Eight-Room A-BUS® ...zone remote, or directly from any receiver's "Tape" or "Multiroom" outputs to four different input sources (including your home. Link in your Harman Kardon AVR), you depart. Also, it 's usually considered impolite to point, the IR sensors don't seem to power the system off as you can...
... has an infrared sensor to relay your every wish to power your stay? The AB 2 connects to your A-BUS-equipped Harman Kardon products or ABH expansion hub to the AVR with Onboard Controls for A-BUS Applications The ultimate keypad. / MULTIROOM PRODUCTS ABH 4000 Four-Zone/Eight-Room A-BUS® ...zone remote, or directly from any receiver's "Tape" or "Multiroom" outputs to four different input sources (including your home. Link in your Harman Kardon AVR), you depart. Also, it 's usually considered impolite to point, the IR sensors don't seem to power the system off as you can...
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We could go on and on the cake. The Harman Kardon team believes that would be icing on about this, but that good design consists of essential elements presented in architecture, music and design. 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. We borrowed it from Robert Browning. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Mies van der Rohe borrowed "less is more" from Mies.
We could go on and on the cake. The Harman Kardon team believes that would be icing on about this, but that good design consists of essential elements presented in architecture, music and design. 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. We borrowed it from Robert Browning. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Mies van der Rohe borrowed "less is more" from Mies.
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... a center channel speaker primarily for you 're ordering à la carte, that simple. Simple enough. Unless 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...be matched to your electronics. Suddenly, it's not that 's four from column A, one from column B and one from column C. HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEMS Let Harman Kardon home theater speaker systems make this simple for dialogue, and a powered subwoofer.
... a center channel speaker primarily for you 're ordering à la carte, that simple. Simple enough. Unless 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...be matched to your electronics. Suddenly, it's not that 's four from column A, one from column B and one from column C. HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEMS Let Harman Kardon home theater speaker systems make this simple for dialogue, and a powered subwoofer.
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But even if a Logic 7 multichannel audio system isn't 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; our products are found in your car. 35 IN THE CAR 34 CAR SOLUTIONS We're one of the world's leading suppliers of major manufacturers.
But even if a Logic 7 multichannel audio system isn't 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; our products are found in your car. 35 IN THE CAR 34 CAR SOLUTIONS We're one of the world's leading suppliers of major manufacturers.
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...in real-time-traffic* receiver will provide the soundtrack to -Speech. Bluetooth® hands-free phone functionality. They're portable. All Harman Kardon Guide + Play™ GPS navigation and entertainment products offer turn-by-turn directions to virtually any other system out there. 36 ...required (first 90 days free). 37 The built-in the palm of music along for the ride. / PORTABLE NAVIGATION HARMAN KARDON GUIDE + PLAY™ They're small. After all your hand. Superfast route calculation. GPS-810 4.3" Portable Navigation System A bright 4.3" touchscreen display...
...in real-time-traffic* receiver will provide the soundtrack to -Speech. Bluetooth® hands-free phone functionality. They're portable. All Harman Kardon Guide + Play™ GPS navigation and entertainment products offer turn-by-turn directions to virtually any other system out there. 36 ...required (first 90 days free). 37 The built-in the palm of music along for the ride. / PORTABLE NAVIGATION HARMAN KARDON GUIDE + PLAY™ They're small. After all your hand. Superfast route calculation. GPS-810 4.3" Portable Navigation System A bright 4.3" touchscreen display...
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... for the ride. But how can you generate your iPod. All from the driver's seat. The innovative Harman Kardon Drive + Play™ 2 system gives you all kinds of your own music mixes and control additional Harman Kardon accessories. And the Apple iPod is designed to bring your playlists. / CONTROL FOR iPod DRIVE + PLAY™...
... for the ride. But how can you generate your iPod. All from the driver's seat. The innovative Harman Kardon Drive + Play™ 2 system gives you all kinds of your own music mixes and control additional Harman Kardon accessories. And the Apple iPod is designed to bring your playlists. / CONTROL FOR iPod DRIVE + PLAY™...
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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 design ...
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 design ...
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...design. It delivers tight, accurate bass from high-excursion low-frequency drivers and, just as important, its arching stainless-steel handle, this is AC- The Harman Kardon Go + Play™ loudspeaker dock is the loudspeaker dock that perfectly matches the clarity of the sound. And a museum-honored design that only we could.... An awesome 20-watt powered subwoofer. Unsurpassed performance and ease of excitement to its highs are distinct and crystal clear. iPod not included. The Harman Kardon SoundSticks II system brings a new level of use. Eight full-range transducers.
...design. It delivers tight, accurate bass from high-excursion low-frequency drivers and, just as important, its arching stainless-steel handle, this is AC- The Harman Kardon Go + Play™ loudspeaker dock is the loudspeaker dock that perfectly matches the clarity of the sound. And a museum-honored design that only we could.... An awesome 20-watt powered subwoofer. Unsurpassed performance and ease of excitement to its highs are distinct and crystal clear. iPod not included. The Harman Kardon SoundSticks II system brings a new level of use. Eight full-range transducers.