detailedReviews: detailedReviews 1: content: Mostly pros, but some minor cons
I freelanced for Harman in the 90s and they were a great client for about 20 years. Over that time I got to experience all of the wonderful sound systems from the various Harman brands. I'm still a Harman fan even though I no longer work for the company, but this iteration of the Soundsticks didn't wow me like I hoped.First the cons:- Out of the box, the sound is flat (note that I said "out of the box"). This will bum out anyone that expects plug-and-play convenience.- Previous Soundsticks that had a nice mid and high range with bass that you could adjust in just the way you liked it. I find that every other song that I listen to requires adjusting the EQ. This is especially aggravating if you listen to a wide variety of music. If you're a whole album type, then you'll find that the speakers are great once you get them dialed in.- The cable length from the sub to the satellites is very short compared to old models. I was really surprised at how short they are and how annoying this was when setting the system up.- The satellites are fixed in the angle they point as opposed to the old models that were adjustable. If you want the sound pointed in your face, you're good. If you have a high ceiling and want to bounce the sound upward, you're stuck. A minor complaint, but I felt it worth mentioning.- At lower volumes the sound is noticeably flat...The pros:- ... but at loud volume, these speakers thunder like speakers three times their size - and they maintain their warmth and brightness without getting tinny. The flatness of the audio goes away and you will get room shaking power. If you love it loud, just hit that add to cart button and get your credit card out now.- The sound fills my office nicely and can be heard on the other end of my house at even a moderate volume. While this is a good thing, I'm not always cranking music when I'm at my computer. Sometimes I just want some light ambience and that's where these Soundsticks fall a bit short.- The design is nothing short of outstanding and they look great on my desk. Being able to get the satellites away from the sub is worth the price alone. And since the sub is so gorgeous, putting it on the floor under your desk would deprive you of seeing how cool it looks every time you walk in the room. I keep mine at desk level. And since all the buttons are on the sub, keeping it on the floor is simply not an option. A control dial would be nice for future models, but that kind of thing isn't Harman's style.- The sub can be very powerful if you're into that sort of thing. Oh, and the sub has a nice LED light. It's too bad that it's only one color and doesn't do anything but illuminate.- Others are complaining about the Bluetooth connectivity for some reason. It works fine for me. And you can connect with cables if you're old school.Of all the speakers I have in my house, I rank the Soundsticks at or near the top. Only my old Design Acoustics floor standing speakers can compete. The Soundsticks beat my Pioneer towers and trounce my JBL and Bose bookshelf speakers.If you're the type that doesn't consider yourself an audiophile, but also take music seriously and know good speakers when you hear them, the Soundsticks are tough to beat. Vastly superior to the all-in-one options.
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starRating: 4.3
title: Detailed pros and cons of SoundSticks 4
detailedReviews 2: content: When Great Design and Sound Meet
These are a great entry into the SoundSticks line of speakers. As my title states, these were originally designed by Apple for Mac back in 2000, with subsequent iterations in the last 21 years. I love that these harken back to Apple's product design of the first half of the 2000s with the clear high quality plastic encasing a nice design internally with white accents; very Apple-like! I use these everyday with my Mac mini and they haven't disappointed: just like with Apple's products, they "just work" where Harman Kardon has factory-tuned the sound profile for what they think is the best experience that you can get with these. Now, if you want to customize the sound to your liking, you can search for and install an app that lets you do so.The unit is made up of two satellite speakers with built-in left and right RCA cables, the subwoofer, and power cable, which are all connected to the subwoofer. Although not included, if you're like me and plan to use this with a stationary source (Mac mini), I purchased a simple white-colored 3.5 mm audio cable to plug in and have lag-free audio. These speakers also have the option for bluetooth so, if you have an iPhone or any other bluetooth-enabled device that you want to stream audio from, you're covered.As for the most important aspect (the sound), these sound AWESOME! Very clean with no emphasis on any one aspect of sound: simply well-rounded. The bass on these sound REALLY GOOD as well: you can FEEL the bass whenever you listen to a bass-heavy sound effect or song. Speaking of sound, in order to adjust the volume, the subwoofer has touch-sensitive buttons on the front face towards the bottom; a departure from previous generations that had the volume control on one of the speakers itself. However, as with all external speakers, since I set the speaker volume on the physical unit itself to around halfway and then adjust on my Mac itself, this is a non-issue for me. What's also cool is that, if you do decide to adjust the volume, the center of the subwoofer's interior lights up in a number of rings: when you lower the volume, the number of rings decreases towards the center; when raised, the number of rings increases radiating out from the center. What a nice touch!You never have to worry about turning these speakers off as they have an auto standby feature that kicks in when there's no sound after a few minutes. Whenever it does go to sleep, you'll know by the subwoofer's center light inside the dome lighting up and staying lit for a few minutes finally turning off. The only downside about this is that they don't always wake up right away when sound starts to play; I've had these wait as long as around 20 seconds on occasion before finally hearing what I want! However, this was with the previous unit that I replaced with the one that I'm reviewing now, so it may have been just a quirk with that particular unit (one of the reasons why I returned the old one, just in case).Overall, I would DEFINITELY recommend these beauties to anyone who wants the combination of great aesthetics and sound, with that Apple-like ease of use and "just works" balanced sound.
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starRating: 4.3
title: Great design and sound, Apple-like ease of use
detailedReviews 3: content: Excellent Sound & Looks
Bought these to replace the Soundsticks Wireless 2.0 I had ealier. Those lasted almost 10 years before the rubber on the drivers started to crack.Although this updated version looks great, it lacks a bass control and also doesnt have an app with an Equalizer. However, they sound great out of the box and excellent PC speakers even at this price.
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starRating: 5
title: Excellent sound and looks, lacks bass control
detailedReviews 4: content: 10/10
These speakers are of good quality, with a bit more bass than high end. The tweeters sound smooth and warm, without harshness. The package arrived early and the seller provided prompt updates throughout the order process. Thank you for this great experience! 10 out of 10 would recommend to others.
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starRating: 5
title: Good quality speakers, smooth warm tweeters
detailedReviews 5: content: Performance:Excellent desktop speaker. Good mix of bassy lows, clear mids and highs.
Quality:well designed, and build.
Excellent seller. Item received less ...
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starRating: 5
title: Excellent desktop speaker, good mix of lows/mids/highs
detailedReviews 6: content: Quality:Superb
Performance:Remarkable
Item received in great condition. Function as expected , good product by HarmanKardon. The cheapest price I get ...
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starRating: 5
title: Superb quality, remarkable performance, good product
detailedReviews 7: content: Best Feature:Amazing sound quality
Performance:The Best
Product Quality:Superb
THIS was my Dream came true, as im so meticulous owning expensive item like ...
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starRating: 5
title: Amazing sound quality, dream come true
detailedReviews 8: content: priced decently...
my second ssd in 5 years. the first one is working great... imastudent and cinemacenter rocks...
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title: Decently priced SSD, good student option
detailedReviews 9: content: Excellent Product
The Product was excellent, the store provided the best value, good communication, fast shipping and good delivery. Highly recommended online store
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title: Excellent product and highly recommended store
detailedReviews 10: content: good cage for iso pocket 3
this is one of the good purchases for my Dji Osmo pocket 3. The cage is ultra light and portable I use it mostly with my tilta hydra alien mini.
marketplace: cinemacenter
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title: Good cage for Osmo Pocket 3
detailedReviews 11: content: I got brand new lens for reasonable price
Item is in perfect packing than that of amazon we can trust this site now a days I am facing a lot issues from amzon thats why I choose this site. And also the delivery was very quick
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title: Brand new lens, good price, quick delivery
detailedReviews 12: content: Fantastic unit for non-audio savvy people like me
Very easy to use, great display, portable. This is everything you will need to record, podcasts, music production, etc. I do a lot of backing tracks, it's easy to bring it in from your audio source and play along. The stem files dropped right into Studio One and from there it was normal mixing of the tracks. This has taken my home recordings to studio quality.
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title: Fantastic unit for recording, studio quality
detailedReviews 13: content: bmd atem mini pro review
I m super happy with the price and the quick fulfillment of my purchase. cinemacenter - they did a great job handling it and doing right by me. i would buy from them again for sure.
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title: Happy with price and quick fulfillment
detailedReviews 14: content: top prime lens
Top quality lens, brand new, good price and well packaged. Also excellent delivery time. 10/10 seller
marketplace: cinemacenter
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title: Top quality lens, good price, excellent seller
detailedReviews 15: content: solid pckng
had my camera delivered just in 2 days. everything is just a breeze
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title: Solid packing, fast delivery
detailedReviews 16: content: Amazing and original
Don't doubt, go for it. 100% original, they need to focus on the late delivery issue...
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title: Amazing and original product, slow delivery
detailedReviews 17: content: slow shipping
Although there was a discrepancy with the shipping time. Customer service handled the issues by communicating with me. Item was received within a reasonable timeframe. Camera (insta360 X4) was absolutely worth the extra days wait and is all I expected. Camera was brand new and in perfect condition.
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title: Slow shipping, but camera worth the wait
detailedReviews 18: content: Great lens for wildlife photography
Recently started bird photography in the wild. A feature like small bird auto focus and tracking would be most welcome
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title: Great lens for wildlife photography
detailedReviews 19: content: Brand new! Got it at a good price with imastudent 10th anniversary
Brand new! Got it at a good price with imastudent 10th anniversary. Sony as always looks and feels amazing. Quick and helpful responses from cinema center, and excellent quality items! Check them out! thank you!⭐️
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title: Brand new, good price, excellent quality items
detailedReviews 20: content: arrived as described...
arrived as described... thanks for shipping as requesred fast
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title: Arrived as described, fast shipping
detailedReviews 21: content: great bluetooth transmitter and receiver
connects quickly with two speakers easily and battery life and audio quality is awesome. Great product at great price. Thanks IAS team.
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title: Great Bluetooth transmitter, awesome audio quality
detailedReviews 22: content: Super Happy with this purchase!
Solid build and feel. Very fast focusing, no apparent searching. Once you lock onto your subject, it holds focus very well. IQ is great, good contrast and sharpness. Loving this lens quite a bit.
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title: Solid build, fast focusing, great IQ
detailedReviews 23: content: Premium lens from premium seller
same day ordered, same day pickup. Happy overall experience
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title: Premium lens from premium seller, same day pickup
detailedReviews 24: content: Amazing image quality
The auto focus is quite and fast. Image rendering is beautiful and the bokeh is amazing.
marketplace: cinemacenter
source: cinemacenter.in
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title: Amazing image quality, beautiful bokeh
detailedReviews 25: content: packing is on-par
v.good packing. dual layered for extra protection. this is for office use printer. no compaints, been using for 2 weeks now
marketplace: cinemacenter
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title: Good packing, dual layered for protection
detailedReviews 26: content: Quality Speaker with Affordable cost
Very good experience
marketplace: cinemacenter
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title: Quality speaker, affordable cost, good experience
detailedReviews 27: content: OFFICIAL ALYSSA MADELINE
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starRating: 5
title: Beauty, confidence, glow up instantly
detailedReviews 28: content: Seller pasted fragile sticker like they do in airport, but the handlers in middle also must have also done like the luggage thrower in the airport, the box ...
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starRating: 5
title: Fragile sticker, but handlers were rough