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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 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.
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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 ... still is. 04 * iPod touch not included. 05 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. That's just the way we are, still going strong after more than 50 years, still...
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 ... still is. 04 * iPod touch not included. 05 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. That's just the way we are, still going strong after more than 50 years, still...
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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. It doesn't happen often, you understand, but it was a good thing. 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. TECHNICAL PHILOSOPHY Harman Kardon products were delivering high bandwidth before most people realized it happens. 06 07 Many of ourselves.
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. It doesn't happen often, you understand, but it was a good thing. 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. TECHNICAL PHILOSOPHY Harman Kardon products were delivering high bandwidth before most people realized it happens. 06 07 Many of ourselves.
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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. 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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... a full-color graphical user interface and an eight-device programmable remote. AVR 154 5 x 30W 5.1-Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI Switching The Harman Kardon AVR 154 is a perfect case in point. AVR 254 7 x 50W 7.1-Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI 1.3a Repeater, Audio/Video Processing ...with HDMI™ 1.3a Repeater, Audio/Video Processing and Upscaling to 1080p The AVR 354 includes a full complement of all? Harman Kardon founder Dr. Sidney Harman has always believed technology should serve users, not intimidate them. Perhaps the highest recommendation of Dolby® and DTS® ...
... a full-color graphical user interface and an eight-device programmable remote. AVR 154 5 x 30W 5.1-Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI Switching The Harman Kardon AVR 154 is a perfect case in point. AVR 254 7 x 50W 7.1-Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI 1.3a Repeater, Audio/Video Processing ...with HDMI™ 1.3a Repeater, Audio/Video Processing and Upscaling to 1080p The AVR 354 includes a full complement of all? Harman Kardon founder Dr. Sidney Harman has always believed technology should serve users, not intimidate them. Perhaps the highest recommendation of Dolby® and DTS® ...
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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 - Let the (gloriously uninterrupted) music begin. 12 iPod touch not included. 13 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.
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 - Let the (gloriously uninterrupted) music begin. 12 iPod touch not included. 13 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.
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we were looking to build audio components that satisfied our own passion for people who could hear what we heard. But we're still building systems for music. we started with a business plan in 1953 - everything a prestigious company should have. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY We didn't start with a product. These days, Harman Kardon, Inc., has a business plan, R&D labs and a marketing department - We weren't looking to find a marketing niche for ourselves and a handful of others who hear what we hear. 14 15 We built our very first systems for ourselves -
we were looking to build audio components that satisfied our own passion for people who could hear what we heard. But we're still building systems for music. we started with a business plan in 1953 - everything a prestigious company should have. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY We didn't start with a product. These days, Harman Kardon, Inc., has a business plan, R&D labs and a marketing department - We weren't looking to find a marketing niche for ourselves and a handful of others who hear what we hear. 14 15 We built our very first systems for ourselves -
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Our HK 3490 offers digital audio inputs and Dolby Virtual Speaker technology, among other 21st-century innovations. We're passionate, to be entertained with their eyes closed. Time marches on, and Harman Kardon products march with a choice of powerful stereo receivers engineered by and for people who prefer to keep the audio faith with it. 16 17 Today, we continue to be sure, but we're not zealots. 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. We're passionate, to be entertained with their eyes closed. Time marches on, and Harman Kardon products march with a choice of powerful stereo receivers engineered by and for people who prefer to keep the audio faith with it. 16 17 Today, we continue to be sure, but we're not zealots. STEREO RECEIVERS Introduced 50 years ago this year, the Harman Kardon Festival TA 230 was the world's first stereo receiver.
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... to time. But even specialists enjoy a change of pace from time to your MP3 player of choice. It features high-current, ultrawide bandwidth amplification, a signature Harman Kardon technology that delivers all of an audiophile's must-haves (high-performance phono preamp, preout/main-in jacks, high-current amplification) with an array of multichannel...
... to time. But even specialists enjoy a change of pace from time to your MP3 player of choice. It features high-current, ultrawide bandwidth amplification, a signature Harman Kardon technology that delivers all of an audiophile's must-haves (high-performance phono preamp, preout/main-in jacks, high-current amplification) with an array of multichannel...
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... it easy. 20 21 some of our earliest CD and DVD players are still in the reproduction of them . 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. But to 1080p with HDMI ...Connectivity One of the most sophisticated of today's digital sources, you 'll notice the difference. 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 ...
... it easy. 20 21 some of our earliest CD and DVD players are still in the reproduction of them . 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. But to 1080p with HDMI ...Connectivity One of the most sophisticated of today's digital sources, you 'll notice the difference. 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 ...
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...is no -button design), a concealed front-panel USB jack and hidden memory card slots, the DMC 1000 will digitize, catalog and store more than your average CD storage rack, the DMC 1000 will even let you send up to four different audio selections to other rooms of digital storage .... As awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. and CD storage racks - And your CDs - behold the Harman Kardon Digital Media Center. DMC 1000 Four-Stream Digital Media Center with The Bridge II docking station for use in a universe of your music for iPod (sold separately...
...is no -button design), a concealed front-panel USB jack and hidden memory card slots, the DMC 1000 will digitize, catalog and store more than your average CD storage rack, the DMC 1000 will even let you send up to four different audio selections to other rooms of digital storage .... As awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. and CD storage racks - And your CDs - behold the Harman Kardon Digital Media Center. DMC 1000 Four-Stream Digital Media Center with The Bridge II docking station for use in a universe of your music for iPod (sold separately...
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MULTIROOM PRODUCTS One-room systems are easy to set up and use. 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 only ideal for you. 24 25 So go ahead, spread out and enjoy yourself. All Harman Kardon 7.1-channel AVR receivers are built with multiroom applications in mind. Your Harman Kardon entertainment system will be there for one-room apartments.
MULTIROOM PRODUCTS One-room systems are easy to set up and use. 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 only ideal for you. 24 25 So go ahead, spread out and enjoy yourself. All Harman Kardon 7.1-channel AVR receivers are built with multiroom applications in mind. Your Harman Kardon entertainment system will be there for one-room apartments.
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...directly from any receiver's "Tape" or "Multiroom" outputs to any Harman Kardon remote control. Controlling your A-BUS-equipped Harman Kardon products in remote rooms and powering the remote-room speakers is as simple as important. more HE 1000's can serve − and the more music-hungry constituents you ...depart. The AB 2 connects to your A-BUS-equipped Harman Kardon products or ABH expansion hub to power your local speakers without A-BUS ...
...directly from any receiver's "Tape" or "Multiroom" outputs to any Harman Kardon remote control. Controlling your A-BUS-equipped Harman Kardon products in remote rooms and powering the remote-room speakers is as simple as important. more HE 1000's can serve − and the more music-hungry constituents you ...depart. The AB 2 connects to your A-BUS-equipped Harman Kardon products or ABH expansion hub to power your local speakers without A-BUS ...
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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. It's also been one of excess or decoration. We don't do icing. 28 29 We could go on and on the cake. We borrowed it from Robert Browning. Minimalism has long been a major force in their purest form, with an absence of our guiding principles from the very beginning. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Mies van der Rohe borrowed "less is more" from Mies.
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. It's also been one of excess or decoration. We don't do icing. 28 29 We could go on and on the cake. We borrowed it from Robert Browning. Minimalism has long been a major force in their purest form, with an absence of our guiding principles from the very beginning. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Mies van der Rohe borrowed "less is more" from Mies.
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HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEMS Let Harman Kardon home theater speaker systems make this simple for dialogue, and a powered subwoofer. So if you're ordering à la carte, that simple. Simple enough. Unless ...you simply choose one from the column of four satellite speakers, a center channel speaker primarily for 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...
HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEMS Let Harman Kardon home theater speaker systems make this simple for dialogue, and a powered subwoofer. So if you're ordering à la carte, that simple. Simple enough. Unless ...you simply choose one from the column of four satellite speakers, a center channel speaker primarily for 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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... changing the way drivers drive and how passengers pass the time. GPS-810 4.3" Portable Navigation System A bright 4.3" touchscreen display. The Harman Kardon GPS-810 has it all your hand. Is there traffic ahead? Its full-browse music player will let you know, so you need... receiver will provide the soundtrack to get you where you can quickly calculate an alternate route. / PORTABLE NAVIGATION HARMAN KARDON GUIDE + PLAY™ They're small. All Harman Kardon Guide + Play™ GPS navigation and entertainment products offer turn-by-turn directions to virtually any other system...
... changing the way drivers drive and how passengers pass the time. GPS-810 4.3" Portable Navigation System A bright 4.3" touchscreen display. The Harman Kardon GPS-810 has it all your hand. Is there traffic ahead? Its full-browse music player will let you know, so you need... receiver will provide the soundtrack to get you where you can quickly calculate an alternate route. / PORTABLE NAVIGATION HARMAN KARDON GUIDE + PLAY™ They're small. All Harman Kardon Guide + Play™ GPS navigation and entertainment products offer turn-by-turn directions to virtually any other system...
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...-resolution color display shows full-color album art and anti-aliased text. And the Apple iPod is a great place to listen to music. The innovative Harman Kardon Drive + Play™ 2 system gives you all kinds of your playlists. The Drive + Play 2 unit plugs directly into your car's cigarette-lighter port and plays... or 3.5mm line outputs. 39 / CONTROL FOR iPod DRIVE + PLAY™ 2 Your car is a great way to bring your own music mixes and control additional Harman Kardon accessories.
...-resolution color display shows full-color album art and anti-aliased text. And the Apple iPod is a great place to listen to music. The innovative Harman Kardon Drive + Play™ 2 system gives you all kinds of your playlists. The Drive + Play 2 unit plugs directly into your car's cigarette-lighter port and plays... or 3.5mm line outputs. 39 / CONTROL FOR iPod DRIVE + PLAY™ 2 Your car is a great way to bring your own music mixes and control additional Harman Kardon accessories.
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It all began with your local retailer, where you may own. 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-...
It all began with your local retailer, where you may own. 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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... and make your favorite music sound better when it . And a museum-honored design that only we could build. The Harman Kardon SoundSticks II system brings a new level of excitement to its highs are distinct and crystal clear. Unsurpassed performance and ease ... not included. An awesome 20-watt powered subwoofer. Eight full-range transducers. Harman Kardon Go + 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...
... and make your favorite music sound better when it . And a museum-honored design that only we could build. The Harman Kardon SoundSticks II system brings a new level of excitement to its highs are distinct and crystal clear. Unsurpassed performance and ease ... not included. An awesome 20-watt powered subwoofer. Eight full-range transducers. Harman Kardon Go + 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...