- 160W Bluetooth speaker with an iconic design
- Built-in customizable lighting that strikes with the music
- Roughly $300 / £230 / AU$464 earlier than taxes and tariffs
Harman Kardon has unveiled its new Aura Studio 5 wi-fi Bluetooth speaker in Japan.
Like the entire Aura Studio audio system its clear dome takes me proper again to the Harman Kardon SoundSticks that graced so many Apple Mac homeowners' desktops from the aughts onwards – audio system so iconic that they're within the New York Museum of Trendy Artwork – however that is very a lot a speaker for at this time with up-to-date Bluetooth, built-in lighting and a strong amp.
Harman Kardon Aura Studio 5: key options and pricing
The brand new era of Aura Studio speaker comes with built-in lights to gentle up your room, and there are 5 pre-set nature themes – campfire, cherry blossoms, galaxy, harvest and ripples – you can customise through the companion app. The app additionally lets you change the EQ, pair two audio system collectively and preserve the firmware updated.
The speaker is designed to provide a 360-degree sound discipline from its 25mm tweeter, six 40mm mid-range drivers across the exterior for 360-degree sound, a 143mm subwoofer and 160W amplification, and it delivers a frequency vary of 45Hz to 20kHz. Harman says its Fixed Sound Subject expertise delivers constant audio all through your room regardless of the place you're sitting.
Bluetooth is 5.4 and there's a wired 3.5mm aux enter for different audio sources.
To this point it is a Japan-only launch, with a price ticket of 46,200 yen (roughly $300 / £230 / AU$464 earlier than taxes and tariffs). The present mannequin, the Aura Studio 4 is $299 / £279 / AU$399, so related pricing is probably going when the mannequin launches elsewhere.
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