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Review: Harman Kardon NC

We travel halfway around the world with HK’s retro-look, radically designed noise-canceller
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted May 12, 2013
I’m not much of a businessman. (If I were, would I be writing audio reviews for a living?) Still, after years of experience in marketing and advertising, I can’t help but admire a good business strategy. That’s partly why I like the Harman Kardon NC.

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Review: Harman Kardon AE In-Ear Headphone

Made from metal — but not necessarily for metal
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted December 5, 2012
In the context of headphones from women’s fashion brands and toy companies, the launch of a new headphone li

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Budget Bars: Soundbars from Vizio, Samsung, LG, and Harman Kardon

Four affordable soundbars go shot for shot. Which one will be left standing?
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted August 14, 2012
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TVs are lonely. A beer-soaked barstool at 2 a.m. kind of lonely. They cry out for companionship, their tinny, bass-less voices difficult to hear, even harder to enjoy. When they were young, they held so much promise: high definition, good times, low cost. How quickly came the onset of disappointment?

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Tech Trends 2012: Soundbars Raise the Bar

Soundbars are finally getting the attention they deserve
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted March 26, 2012
In the last couple of years, I’ve heard several speaker manufacturers predict that the increasingly good-sounding $300 products from the likes of Panasonic, Samsung, and Vizio would soon push all the traditional audio companies out of the soundbar biz. But it hasn’t happened. This year’s CES saw the introduction of several new soundbars from respected brands.

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CES 2012: Soundbars and All-in-One Systems

New audio systems that keep things simple
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted January 17, 2012
Where was home theater at the 2012 CES? Mostly swamped in a sea of disinterest. Maybe consumers got tired of adding more channels. Maybe they got tired of complexity. Or maybe they’re just broke! For whatever reason, the focus at CES 2012 was on simpler systems that minimize complexity without (we hope) minimizing sound quality.

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Sidney Harman 1918–2011

A moment of silence — actually, turn up your audio gear! — for the co-founder of Harman Kardon.
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 13, 2011
Most recently, he was known as the executive chairman of the merger between Newsweek magazine (which he bought last year) and The Daily Beast.

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Harman Kardon? Check. Harman Newsweek?!
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 3, 2010
"He started a business selling FM radios in the 1950s" . . . and now he's running Newsweek magazine! Yes, Sidney Harman, whose 92nd birthday is tomorrow, has bought the ailing publication because, as he quipped to The New York Times, "I think I should stop misspending my youth."

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Harman Kardon updates its midpriced A/V receivers
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 9, 2009
Building A/V receivers might be the toughest job in the audio industry. The technology seems to change on a monthly basis—and if you don’t have the latest features you're in big trouble.

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Harman Kardon brings the Blu
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 10, 2009
Harman Kardon is finally entering the U.S.
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CEDIA: Harman Kardon's New Flagship Receiver
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 8, 2008
Harman Kardon took the wraps off its new flagship receiver, the AVR-7550HD. My photo (at right) is pretty poor, but in fact there's not much to see. This beauty has a completely stealth front panel, with a cool lighted, translucent volume knob. (There are some conventional controls under a flip panel).

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Harman Kardon's CEDIA Sneak Peek
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 20, 2008
Harman Kardon is going to make a splash at CEDIA 2008 in early September with a bevy of new products for the custom installation crowd (and maybe you too!).

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Wide Receivers
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 13, 2008
Sure, many people's entire music library is now in their jeans pocket, and the playback space is somewhere between their left and right earbuds. That's cool. Other folks are into fancy home theaters and surround sound. Cool.

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