We sound better because we listen better.
The new Harman Kardon receivers have power, features, excellent specifications.
But so do many other receivers.
What makes us better is the way we sound. More musical, with air between the instruments.
Spacious, with extraordinary articulation that allows each instrument to register deep into your musical consciousness.
Why does Harman Kardon sound better?
It starts with ultra wideband frequency response and remarkably low TIM (transient intermodulation distortion) and SID (stewing induced distortion). But these are merely minimum design parameters for Harman Kardon engineers.
Of course, it is possible for our engineers to build adequate receivers where others build them--in the laboratory. But that's not where you build exceptional ones. You make them in the listening room.
But not just when the receiver design has been completed. Listening at every stage of development is critical.
The fact is that transistors with the same specifications, but from different manufacturers, vary in ways that affect the texture of music. That's why Harman Kardon engineers actually listened for the musical character of every component-singly and in combination--that went into the audio chain of all our new receivers. Every transistor. Every capacitor. Every resistor.
They listened for the subtle differences in component parts that make the immeasurable difference in the final product--changing, refining, in effect tuning the instrument until a receiver emerged that sounded exactly the way they wanted it to sound.
In short, it's not just great specifications that make the difference--it's listening to those things that others tend to take for granted.
Listen to the difference yourself. Visit your Harman Kardon dealer today.
Pictured: hk670 receiver 60/60 watts
Not shown: hk340 20/20 watts, hk450 30/30 watts, hk560 40/40 watts
harman/kardon -- Hear all the music.
h/k 55 Ames Court Plainview NY 11803
(adapted from Audio magazine, Nov. 1978)
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Also see:
harman/kardon High Technology series (ad, May 1981)
harman/kardon 730 receiver (Nov. 1976)