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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. 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. 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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TABLE OF CONTENTS AT HOME 08 IN THE CAR 34 ON THE GO 40 SPECIFICATIONS 44 02 03
TABLE OF CONTENTS AT HOME 08 IN THE CAR 34 ON THE GO 40 SPECIFICATIONS 44 02 03
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... way we 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. Over the years, landmark Harman Kardon products led the transition from vacuum tubes to solid state, from mono to hi-fi, and from analog... always wanted it 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.
... way we 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. Over the years, landmark Harman Kardon products led the transition from vacuum tubes to solid state, from mono to hi-fi, and from analog... always wanted it 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.
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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. TECHNICAL PHILOSOPHY Harman Kardon products were delivering high bandwidth before most people realized it happens. 06 07 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.
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. TECHNICAL PHILOSOPHY Harman Kardon products were delivering high bandwidth before most people realized it happens. 06 07 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.
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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. 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
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...seamlessly, the AVR 354 features a full-color graphical user interface and an eight-device programmable remote. But the AVR 154 is the most affordable Harman Kardon receiver to feature both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ decoding on the video side. 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. It connects to external amps. And with HDMI 1.3a Repeater, Audio/Video Processing and Upscaling to...
...seamlessly, the AVR 354 features a full-color graphical user interface and an eight-device programmable remote. But the AVR 154 is the most affordable Harman Kardon receiver to feature both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ decoding on the video side. 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. It connects to external amps. And with HDMI 1.3a Repeater, Audio/Video Processing and Upscaling to...
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guided by easy-to seamlessly select and play audio and video content - The Bridge II connects directly to Harman Kardon The Bridge-ready products and allows you to use your system's remote to -read on-screen or front-panel messages. Let the (gloriously uninterrupted) music begin. 12 iPod touch not included. 13 Thanks to The Bridge II docking station, connection and control are completely within your iPod? / DOCKING STATION FOR iPod The Bridge II Docking Station for iPod Is your home entertainment system incomplete without music from your power.
guided by easy-to seamlessly select and play audio and video content - The Bridge II connects directly to Harman Kardon The Bridge-ready products and allows you to use your system's remote to -read on-screen or front-panel messages. Let the (gloriously uninterrupted) music begin. 12 iPod touch not included. 13 Thanks to The Bridge II docking station, connection and control are completely within your iPod? / DOCKING STATION FOR iPod The Bridge II Docking Station for iPod Is your home entertainment system incomplete without music from your power.
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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 - everything a prestigious company should have. But we're still building systems for ourselves - We weren't looking to find a marketing niche for people who could hear what we were looking to build audio components that satisfied our own passion for music. we hear. 14 15 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 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 - everything a prestigious company should have. But we're still building systems for ourselves - We weren't looking to find a marketing niche for people who could hear what we were looking to build audio components that satisfied our own passion for music. we hear. 14 15 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 -
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Today, 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 We're passionate, to be sure, but we're not zealots. Time marches on, and Harman Kardon products march with their eyes closed. 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.
Today, 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 We're passionate, to be sure, but we're not zealots. Time marches on, and Harman Kardon products march with their eyes closed. 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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..., like all the subtlety of an original musical performance, whether reproduced from time to your timehonored turntable. It features high-current, ultrawide bandwidth amplification, a signature Harman Kardon technology that delivers all specialists, it's very good at what it does to time. But even specialists enjoy a change of pace from vinyl or your...
..., like all the subtlety of an original musical performance, whether reproduced from time to your timehonored turntable. It features high-current, ultrawide bandwidth amplification, a signature Harman Kardon technology that delivers all specialists, it's very good at what it does to time. But even specialists enjoy a change of pace from vinyl or your...
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... More than a few of this at home. are still in the reproduction of them . But to 1080p with HDMI Connectivity One 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 DVD... experience the very highest resolution of its kind. But we promise that you 'll need our newest DVD player. Do try all of the earliest Harman Kardon products -
... More than a few of this at home. are still in the reproduction of them . But to 1080p with HDMI Connectivity One 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 DVD... experience the very highest resolution of its kind. But we promise that you 'll need our newest DVD player. Do try all of the earliest Harman Kardon products -
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... DMC 1000 will digitize, catalog and store more than 60,000 songs as the one go-to device to finally bridge the gaping DVD/CD/music system/cell phone/camera divide. And your music for iPod (sold separately and very much worth it). 22 23 behold the Harman Kardon Digital Media... Center. to banish your CDs - As awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. DMC 1000 Four-Stream Digital Media Center with The Bridge II docking station for use in a ...
... DMC 1000 will digitize, catalog and store more than 60,000 songs as the one go-to device to finally bridge the gaping DVD/CD/music system/cell phone/camera divide. And your music for iPod (sold separately and very much worth it). 22 23 behold the Harman Kardon Digital Media... Center. to banish your CDs - As awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. DMC 1000 Four-Stream Digital Media Center with The Bridge II docking station for use in a ...
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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. Your Harman Kardon entertainment system will be there for one-room apartments. MULTIROOM PRODUCTS One-room 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. 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. So go ahead, spread out and enjoy yourself. Your Harman Kardon entertainment system will be there for one-room apartments. MULTIROOM PRODUCTS One-room 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. All Harman Kardon 7.1-channel AVR receivers are easy to set up and use.
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ABH 4 HE 1000 Four-Room A-BUS Expansion Hub External Infrared Remote Sensor One ABH 4 = four rooms; One or more music-hungry constituents you can satisfy. AB 2 Amplified In-Wall Module with virtually any room. The AB 2 connects to your A-BUS-equipped Harman Kardon products or ABH expansion hub...give you the option of controlling local volume with you can serve − and the more HE 1000's can easily divide your system's IR remote control only makes sense. As usual, Harman Kardon products have , the more rooms you . But even without an additional amplifier. And although it ...
ABH 4 HE 1000 Four-Room A-BUS Expansion Hub External Infrared Remote Sensor One ABH 4 = four rooms; One or more music-hungry constituents you can satisfy. AB 2 Amplified In-Wall Module with virtually any room. The AB 2 connects to your A-BUS-equipped Harman Kardon products or ABH expansion hub...give you the option of controlling local volume with you can serve − and the more HE 1000's can easily divide your system's IR remote control only makes sense. As usual, Harman Kardon products have , the more rooms you . But even without an additional amplifier. And although it ...
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We could go on and on the cake. We borrowed it from the very beginning. It's also been one of excess or decoration. We don't do icing. 28 29 Minimalism has long been a major force in their purest form, with an absence of our guiding principles from Mies. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Mies van der Rohe borrowed "less is more" from Robert Browning. 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.
We could go on and on the cake. We borrowed it from the very beginning. It's also been one of excess or decoration. We don't do icing. 28 29 Minimalism has long been a major force in their purest form, with an absence of our guiding principles from Mies. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Ludwig Mies van der Rohe borrowed "less is more" from Robert Browning. 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.
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So if 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, ...and all six should be matched to your electronics. As you 're ordering à la carte, that simple. Unless you . HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEMS Let Harman Kardon home theater speaker systems make this simple for dialogue, and a powered subwoofer. Simple enough. Suddenly, it's not that 's four from column A, one from column B and...
So if 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, ...and all six should be matched to your electronics. As you 're ordering à la carte, that simple. Unless you . HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEMS Let Harman Kardon home theater speaker systems make this simple for dialogue, and a powered subwoofer. Simple enough. Suddenly, it's not that 's four from column A, one from column B and...
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HKTS 15 5.1-Channel Home Theater Speaker System Please have your HKS 6 speakers, faking you into the action, and a 100-watt powered subwoofer for heart-stopping bass, the HKTS 15 system is more than equal to all that they 'll find this a tough act to position any HKTS satellite at first, especially if it sounds like sound. HTFS 2 Floor Stands Designed to compete against. And those talkers? Worlds colliding? There's nothing back there but powerful satellites to pull you out by delivering a back channel that the 5.1 HKTS 15 system, by all the excitement Hollywood is a powerful ...
HKTS 15 5.1-Channel Home Theater Speaker System Please have your HKS 6 speakers, faking you into the action, and a 100-watt powered subwoofer for heart-stopping bass, the HKTS 15 system is more than equal to all that they 'll find this a tough act to position any HKTS satellite at first, especially if it sounds like sound. HTFS 2 Floor Stands Designed to compete against. And those talkers? Worlds colliding? There's nothing back there but powerful satellites to pull you out by delivering a back channel that the 5.1 HKTS 15 system, by all the excitement Hollywood is a powerful ...
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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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...easily and intuitively than any destination, with a choice of your favorite music, movies and photos along the way. Superfast route calculation. The Harman Kardon GPS-810 has it all your hand. And all - The built-in -one navigation and entertainment system. Its full-browse music player ...will let you know, so you need to get you where you're going safely. All Harman Kardon Guide + Play™ GPS navigation and entertainment products offer turn-by-turn directions to -Speech. Real-time traffic.* Text-to virtually...
...easily and intuitively than any destination, with a choice of your favorite music, movies and photos along the way. Superfast route calculation. The Harman Kardon GPS-810 has it all your hand. And all - The built-in -one navigation and entertainment system. Its full-browse music player ...will let you know, so you need to get you where you're going safely. All Harman Kardon Guide + Play™ GPS navigation and entertainment products offer turn-by-turn directions to -Speech. Real-time traffic.* Text-to virtually...
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But how can you all kinds of USB flash devices. The innovative Harman Kardon Drive + Play™ 2 system gives you get at your songs and playlists without taking your mind off the road. 38 Drive + Play 2 Mobile Media Manager .... The Drive + Play 2 unit plugs directly into your car's cigarette-lighter port and plays high-quality audio through your own music mixes and control additional Harman Kardon accessories.
But how can you all kinds of USB flash devices. The innovative Harman Kardon Drive + Play™ 2 system gives you get at your songs and playlists without taking your mind off the road. 38 Drive + Play 2 Mobile Media Manager .... The Drive + Play 2 unit plugs directly into your car's cigarette-lighter port and plays high-quality audio through your own music mixes and control additional Harman Kardon accessories.