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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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... and performance that 's the way it . And that always set higher standards, nothing else ever looked or sounded quite like Harman Kardon components. WELCOME As a consumer electronics company, the Harman Kardon® brand dates back to digital. 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 performance that 's the way it . And that always set higher standards, nothing else ever looked or sounded quite like Harman Kardon components. WELCOME As a consumer electronics company, the Harman Kardon® brand dates back to digital. 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 ...
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Technology leaders can only lead by example, and we didn't actually think of ourselves. It doesn't happen often, you understand, but it was a good thing. Many of very good examples for more than 50 years. And we've always been quick to adopt and improve on any good ideas we 've been setting a series of the technologies found in today's finest amplifiers were introduced in Harman Kardon audio equipment. 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 ourselves. It doesn't happen often, you understand, but it was a good thing. Many of very good examples for more than 50 years. And we've always been quick to adopt and improve on any good ideas we 've been setting a series of the technologies found in today's finest amplifiers were introduced in Harman Kardon audio equipment. TECHNICAL PHILOSOPHY Harman Kardon products were delivering high bandwidth before most people realized it happens. 06 07
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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. 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
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... 5 x 30W 5.1-Channel A/V Receiver with The Bridge II docking station (included), it features a high-current, ultrawide-bandwidth design for future firmware upgrades. The AVR 354 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 Cinema video processing to...
... 5 x 30W 5.1-Channel A/V Receiver with The Bridge II docking station (included), it features a high-current, ultrawide-bandwidth design for future firmware upgrades. The AVR 354 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 Cinema video processing to...
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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 - 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 Thanks to -read on-screen or front-panel messages. 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 - 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 Thanks to -read on-screen or front-panel messages. The Bridge II connects directly to Harman Kardon The Bridge-ready products and allows you to use your iPod?
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we hear. 14 15 But we're still building systems for people who could hear what we were looking to build audio components that satisfied our own passion for ourselves - we heard. We built our very first systems for ourselves and a handful of others who hear what we started with a business plan in 1953 - These days, Harman Kardon, Inc., has a business plan, R&D labs and a marketing department - everything a prestigious company should have. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY We didn't start with a product. We weren't looking to find a marketing niche for music.
we hear. 14 15 But we're still building systems for people who could hear what we were looking to build audio components that satisfied our own passion for ourselves - we heard. We built our very first systems for ourselves and a handful of others who hear what we started with a business plan in 1953 - These days, Harman Kardon, Inc., has a business plan, R&D labs and a marketing department - everything a prestigious company should have. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY We didn't start with a product. We weren't looking to find a marketing niche for music.
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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. 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. Today, we 're not zealots.
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. 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. Today, we 're not zealots.
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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 vinyl or your timehonored turntable. But even specialists enjoy a change of ...
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 vinyl or your timehonored turntable. But even specialists enjoy a change of ...
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...of DVD-Audio and SACD™ discs, as well as MP3 and WMA files. are surely among the most sophisticated of 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 earliest Harman Kardon products - We know upgrading isn't always a joy. / DVD PLAYERS More than a few of them . DVD 48 DVD-Audio/Video and SACD™ ...
...of DVD-Audio and SACD™ discs, as well as MP3 and WMA files. are surely among the most sophisticated of 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 earliest Harman Kardon products - We know upgrading isn't always a joy. / DVD PLAYERS More than a few of them . DVD 48 DVD-Audio/Video and SACD™ ...
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/ DIGITAL MEDIA CENTERS It has long been a dream to the attic. behold the Harman Kardon Digital Media Center. As awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of your CDs - It will also let you send up to four different audio selections ...
/ DIGITAL MEDIA CENTERS It has long been a dream to the attic. behold the Harman Kardon Digital Media Center. As awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of your CDs - It will also let you send up to four different audio selections ...
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Which means Harman Kardon multiroom systems are built with multiroom applications in mind. So go ahead, spread out and enjoy yourself. All Harman Kardon 7.1-channel AVR receivers are easy to set up and use. MULTIROOM PRODUCTS One-room systems are only ideal for you. 24 25 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.
Which means Harman Kardon multiroom systems are built with multiroom applications in mind. So go ahead, spread out and enjoy yourself. All Harman Kardon 7.1-channel AVR receivers are easy to set up and use. MULTIROOM PRODUCTS One-room systems are only ideal for you. 24 25 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.
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... rooms. With an ABH 4000 expansion hub and up to four different input sources (including your Harman Kardon AVR), you in control of your AVR from anywhere in your home. Link in an A-BUS®-equipped Harman Kardon product and make its key caps are swappable, to mirror your system), or to power the... system off as a single connection to the AVR or the nearest ABH expansion hub, and a link to power your favorite music be with the AVR's second-zone remote, or directly...
... rooms. With an ABH 4000 expansion hub and up to four different input sources (including your Harman Kardon AVR), you in control of your AVR from anywhere in your home. Link in an A-BUS®-equipped Harman Kardon product and make its key caps are swappable, to mirror your system), or to power the... system off as a single connection to the AVR or the nearest ABH expansion hub, and a link to power your favorite music be with the AVR's second-zone remote, or directly...
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We borrowed it from the very beginning. The Harman Kardon team believes that would be icing on the cake. We don't do icing. 28 29 Minimalism has long been a major force in their purest form, with an absence of excess or decoration. We could go on and on about this, but that good design consists of our guiding principles from Mies. It's also been one of essential elements presented in architecture, music and design. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Mies van der Rohe borrowed "less is more" from Robert Browning.
We borrowed it from the very beginning. The Harman Kardon team believes that would be icing on the cake. We don't do icing. 28 29 Minimalism has long been a major force in their purest form, with an absence of excess or decoration. We could go on and on about this, but that good design consists of our guiding principles from Mies. It's also been one of essential elements presented in architecture, music and design. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Mies van der Rohe borrowed "less is more" from Robert Browning.
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... should 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 you probably know, a 5.1-channel speaker system consists of...
... should 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 you probably know, a 5.1-channel speaker system consists of...
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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 car. 35 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;
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 car. 35 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;
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... full-featured portable GPS navigation system, digital music player and widescreen video player that fits in -one navigation and entertainment system. All Harman Kardon Guide + Play™ GPS navigation and entertainment products offer turn-by-turn directions to go. * Subscription required (first 90 days ...calculate an alternate route. Real-time traffic.* Text-to-Speech. GPS-810 4.3" Portable Navigation System A bright 4.3" touchscreen display. The Harman Kardon GPS-810 has it all , their eyes off the road. The built-in real-time-traffic* receiver will provide the soundtrack to...
... full-featured portable GPS navigation system, digital music player and widescreen video player that fits in -one navigation and entertainment system. All Harman Kardon Guide + Play™ GPS navigation and entertainment products offer turn-by-turn directions to go. * Subscription required (first 90 days ...calculate an alternate route. Real-time traffic.* Text-to-Speech. GPS-810 4.3" Portable Navigation System A bright 4.3" touchscreen display. The Harman Kardon GPS-810 has it all , their eyes off the road. The built-in real-time-traffic* receiver will provide the soundtrack to...
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... + Play™ 2 system gives you generate your own music mixes and control additional Harman Kardon accessories. The Drive + Play 2 system not only controls your iPod, it is designed to the next track or play the last one over and over. ...
... + Play™ 2 system gives you generate your own music mixes and control additional Harman Kardon accessories. The Drive + Play 2 system not only controls your iPod, it is designed to the next track or play the last one over and over. ...
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... loudspeaker systems are also on display at your own computer and for yourself. 41 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...
... loudspeaker systems are also on display at your own computer and for yourself. 41 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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... brings a new level of excitement to its highs are distinct and crystal clear. Unsurpassed performance and ease of the sound. The Harman Kardon Go + Play™ loudspeaker dock is the loudspeaker dock that perfectly matches the clarity of use. or battery-operated, so it... will go anywhere your iPod or other music player goes − and make your favorite music sound better when it . Harman Kardon Go + Play™ High-Performance Portable Loudspeaker Dock for iPod Understated, sublimely functional industrial design. It delivers tight, accurate bass from high...
... brings a new level of excitement to its highs are distinct and crystal clear. Unsurpassed performance and ease of the sound. The Harman Kardon Go + Play™ loudspeaker dock is the loudspeaker dock that perfectly matches the clarity of use. or battery-operated, so it... will go anywhere your iPod or other music player goes − and make your favorite music sound better when it . Harman Kardon Go + Play™ High-Performance Portable Loudspeaker Dock for iPod Understated, sublimely functional industrial design. It delivers tight, accurate bass from high...