Harman Kardon's Aura Studio 4 is a Bluetooth speaker with eccentric appears to be like

Within the 70 years since Dr Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon established their hi-fi firm in Westbury, New York, the corporate has established an enviable fame within the hi-fi world. In order a part of its birthday celebrations on the Montreux Jazz Competition in Switzerland, the corporate has introduced three new merchandise designed to bolster that fame but additional.

As is trendy recently, Harman/Kardon is revisiting certainly one of its most iconic designs to ship a model new product – the Aura Studio 4 Bluetooth speaker is, visually a minimum of, a direct descendant of the corporate’s Jonny Ive-designed SoundSticks. It makes use of the identical strikingly clear design and the identical consideration to element the place specification is anxious, however provides a little bit Twenty first-century modernity too.

Like all three of those new merchandise, Aura Studio 4 makes use of as many recycled supplies as potential in its development. Six speaker drivers increase a 132mm down-firing bass drivers so as to create as open and correct a sound as potential, whereas 324 particular person crystals on the backside of the see-through cupboard supply a visible counterpoint to the sound the speaker delivers.

The Go + Play 3 Bluetooth speaker, in the meantime, is simply as clearly a growth of some established Harman/Kardon design language – that semi-circular silhouette has been a profitable search for the corporate for some time.

With a three-way speaker driver association together with an uncovered, down-facing bass driver, computerized room calibration, eight hours of battery life and the flexibility to make use of two to create a stereo pair, Go + Play 3 has it the place it counts – and due to a mixture of tempered glass, aluminium and material, it actually must really feel nearly as good because it appears to be like.

The infant of the trio is the Luna transportable Bluetooth speaker. It’s a hand-sized, fabric-and-aluminium speaker with a go-anywhere IP67 score, 12 hours of battery life and a two-way driver set-up doing the audio enterprise. It can also type a stereo pair, must you really feel the necessity to buy a pair. 

All three of recent merchandise are on sale from September fifteenth. Aura Studio 4 will likely be priced at €329, whereas Go + Play 3 is yours for €349 and Luna prices €179. Extra particulars can be found at Harman Kardon web site.