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Best Ipod Speaker System No One Knows About Jul 27, 2010 If I worked on the design team at Harmon Kardon, I would be really upset with our sales and marketing team. This is BY FAR the best sounding, best looking portable speaker system for Ipod on the market - yet very few people know about it. It isnt on the floor at Best Buy, it isnt a featured product at the Apple Store, it isnt front and center at Sweetwater or Crutchfield, it isnt prominently promoted here at Amazon.
Every single time someone walks in my living room, they comment on the looks of the unit - then I turn it on and they are blown away. Right out of the box it is tuned perfectly, and if you play music with some real bass to it (Reggae, Hip-hop, or some form or House or Techno) the unit just comes alive.
The RF remote is amazing...and works from 35 feet away, through walls, outside, downstairs etc. It is truly incredible. Its usefulness for things other than skipping tracks, adjusting volume and hitting play and pause is debatable - but that is most of what you need to do with a remove anyway.
There are drawbacks for sure. The way the Ipod docks, makes it impossible to see the screen without getting up and hovering over the unit. And the remote, while full capable of doing everything you need it to do - is so minimal in its design that you need to memorize a ton of commands to do simple things. Two mistakes in the design for sure.
BUT, if you are a savvy Ipod user - have well planned play lists set up that preclude you from having to get up over and over - you can overcome these minor draw backs and enjoy THE BEST sound you have ever heard from a portable speaker system.
Why H/K did not market this more is beyond me. I recommend it to everyone I know, and they can never find it for a good price.
I have more than 15,000 songs on my Ipod and leave for music and I can say that this is the best product I have ever bought for my music collection. Love, love, love this product....if you love music, you will too.
Excellent sound Feb 06, 2010 Love this. Excellent sound, fills my house. Sounds much bigger and much more expensive than a little portable unit.
Unbelievable Sound Production! Dec 16, 2009 The sound from this Ipod speaker is way out of this world!! It surpasses any other Ipod speaker I have come across including Bose. When I pop up the volume from this magic speakers, pals and neighbours alike are marvelled at how such a small box could produce such magnificient sound. The bass is so rich and the flow of music is without any distortion even at a very high volume. It is simply amazing!!
However, someone needs to advise Harman Kardon to stop claiming that the speakers can play videos from Ipods when connected to TVs. This is simply false. I bought the AV connection cable and tried this feature with my Ipod classic and was quite disappointed to get a negative result. I then wrote to the customer service and I was informed that this feature is not available with Ipod classics. I believe Harman Kardon should address this issue by disseminating clear information on the available features of the speakers with different categories of Ipods . The danger of a potential law suit cannot be over ruled if such undefined claims continue!!
Great Ipod Sound Nov 21, 2009 This has been worth every penny. It can make any room in the house sound like it is fully wired with a complete sound system. Sound quality is clear.
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Solution to the 10-minute shut-off problem Sep 30, 2009 I got the Harmon Kardon Go & Play, and it was turning itself off after every 10 minutes. It was very frustrating. It ended up that my auxiliary input jack was not plugged in all the way, and only one channel was being played. Apparently, the unit detects whether or not sound is being played, and it turns off after a certain amount of time if no sound is detected. Also, apparently, that detection circuitry is only on one channel -- not both. So if you don't have the input wire plugged in all the way, the unit does not detect sound properly.
To solve the problem, make sure that the input wire is plugged in ALL the way. :)
Other than this little issue, this unit is fantastic! Best sound I have heard in a long, long time. Highly recommended.
~Christopher Sebastian, Phoenix Arizona.
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