Harman / Kardon BDS 880

Advantages: compact - beautiful - high power - omnivorous - wi-fi, bluetooth, airplay, etc.

Disadvantages: when listening to music, the bass is not as deep as you would like, there are a lot of bass, but when you watch a movie, they sound super, but just when you listen to music - some kind of deaf or something, ordinary outdoor speakers play better music, but here physics is not you will deceive, but places occupy a little.

Comment: They bought an employee for his birthday, they entrusted me to connect and configure everything, to configure everything is elementary - I connected speakers (wires in a set of 30 meters are given), stuck hdmi (was also included) into a TV, stuck an auto-calibration microphone (and it was bundled), and for seven minutes, everything tuned into the room itself. The sound is very pleasant - I compare it with my Sony soundbar ht st9, which, although more powerful, doesn’t have that volume that is created with the help of five speakers from harman. Also of the advantages I will note the reading of the mkv controller via usb (my soundbar reads only audio files from usb). For a long time I could not figure out the hdmi ces system - this is control from one remote from the TV via hdmi - it turned out that it was necessary to activate it not in the cinema, but in the menu of the TV itself, until it was activated - everything did not work from one remote. Stylish cinema with good sound - I recommend.

Advantages: I use it for the first week, at first I wanted to buy a soundbar for myself, but a competent salesman in an online store explained that I couldn’t get a sound from a soundbar and better take a full-fledged cinema, bought a cinema without first eavesdropping - I would like the sound . the sound is really cool, as it is written in other reviews, I turn on 60 percent of the volume and in the 25-meter room - sometimes there is dribble glass when exploding in movies.

Disadvantages: It reads all mkv from a flash drive without problems, the sound in dts format is more interesting than in dolby digital, connected ps4, compared image quality with blur discs - at harman the picture is softer and colors are more natural (TV sony 55 xe9005)

Comment: Keep in mind: the cords for connection should be included (the seller wanted to sell me a separate hdmi cable for 2000 rubles and a cable for the subwoofer for 1000 - assured that they were not included), and they all were already in the box + brackets for hanging the speakers + All speaker cables are written in the manual. (sellers either do not know themselves what is in the kit and what is not, or they know, but they breed for additional unnecessary accessories)

Advantages: the sound is excellent, the build quality is excellent, the settings through the menu are normal, the commutation is excellent, the convenient remote control, the appearance is excellent

Disadvantages: I could not figure out the auto-calibration for the room, or rather figured it out, but when adjusting the speakers manually through the menu - the sound is more interesting, the glossy finish of the case, there is no timer to turn on, on the receiver’s receiver there is a very minimal set of buttons - control either from the console or through application from a smartphone.

Comment: I can only compare with the sound bar bose soundtough 300, which stands in the next room, unlike the sound bar, you can immediately hear sound from all sides, and the sound quality itself is far superior to the sound bar from bose. Since I didn’t lay the wires during the repair, I had to purchase HTFS floor racks, so that the wires couldn’t be seen at all - the racks look great.

Advantages: great sound for small spaces, a very designer thing, a sort of all in one in a compact package.

Disadvantages: until revealed

Comment: I myself am very pleased with the sound of the cinema, and my friends come in - they are surprised how such a large sound comes from such compact speakers. I was looking for a cinema in white color, the choice in white is not great, I stopped on this harman, in a bright room the white looks very nice, I connected it to another playstation 4 (also in white) - the sound in the games generally turns out.

Advantages: high-quality sound for small rooms, support for new-fashioned network services

Disadvantages: full control of the system is realized only from the console, or from a mobile application - on the button amplifier itself to a minimum. You can not add a couple of columns.

Comment: I bought it before the repair began in the apartment, since it was necessary to lay wires for the speakers (there are wires in the kit - only about 30 meters + subwoofer - 3 meters) - this was enough for a room of 25 meters in the butt, I hung all the speakers at a height of one and a half meters from floor. The cinema pumps the room to the full extent - especially in action scenes in films, this is felt, and then the desire to go to an ordinary cinema was lost. I connected it via ARCs with a samsung TV - everything is controlled from a single remote. I plugged it into another: apple tv, nintendo switch and a dune media player with a hard disk of two terabytes - everything is very conveniently connected via hdmi and then only one cable goes to the TV, and through this cable harman takes the sound from the TV and the TV channels already through the columns. Climbed on the American site harman / kardon - to see what is now being produced, and there this cinema costs 1499 bucks, it turns out that in Russia it is even cheaper by 20 percent sell - it is not clear why such generosity usually costs more with us than in the states . In the end I was very pleased with the purchase.