In the 70 years since Dr Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon institute their hi - fi company in Westbury , New York , the companionship has ground an enviable report in the hi - fi Earth . So as part of its birthday celebrations at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland , the company has announced three new products designed to bolster that report yet further .
As is fashionable lately , Harman / Kardon is revisiting one of its most iconic designs to pitch a brand raw product – the Aura Studio 4 Bluetooth utterer is , visually at least , a unmediated descendant of the company ’s Jonny Ive - designed SoundSticks . It use the same strikingly transparent innovation and the same tending to detail where specification is concerned , but contribute a small 21st - hundred modernism too .
Like all three of these new products , Aura Studio 4 use as many recycled materials as potential in its construction . Six speaker driver augment a 132 mm down - firing bass gadget driver for make as exposed and accurate a sound as possible , while 324 individual crystals at the bottom of the see - through cabinet volunteer a visual counterpoint to the phone the verbaliser rescue .
The Go + meet 3 Bluetooth speaker , meanwhile , is just as obviously a maturation of some established Harman / Kardon conception language – that semi - circular silhouette has been a successful look for the society for a while .
With a three - way speaker driver system include an debunk , down - facing bass number one wood , automatic way standardisation , eight hour of barrage fire life-time and the power to use two to create a stereo pair , Go + Play 3 has it where it count – and thanks to a combination of tempered shabu , aluminium and fabric , it really ought to finger as practiced as it looks .
The baby of the trio is the Lunaportable Bluetooth speaker . It ’s a handwriting - sized , material - and - aluminium speaker with a go - anywhereIP67 rating , 12 hour of shelling life story and a two - way driver set - up doing the audio occupation . It too can form a stereophony duo , should you feel the demand to purchase a span .
All three of newfangled merchandise are on sales event from September 15th . Aura Studio 4 will be price at € 329 , while Go + Play 3 is yours for € 349 and Luna costs € 179 . More details are available atHarman Kardon website .
