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Review on Portable acoustics Harman/Kardon Go Play Mini, 100 W, white by Stanislaw Gorka ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Good product, good quality, not bad.

Harman/Kardon For the people who the Go + Play was designed for, this product is ideal, especially when compared to the speakers made by JBL's junior brand, which are more affordable. The Go + Play perfectly pumps bass for its dimensions, does a good job of reproducing high frequencies, has a decent stereo base, and the speaker is objectively better than a lot of its competitors when it comes to price, but! This device continues to function as a boombox for playing pop or dance music, and nearly anything can be used for this type of music. A decrease in the midrange makes listening to compositions in all other types of music quite unpleasant (if you listen to Makarevich or Spleen on Go + Play, for instance, you will be able to understand how their voice is lost, and this is only the tip of the iceberg). There is no reason to even broach the subject of high-fidelity audio at this point. And it would appear that the maker himself had no intention of competing with more expensive models produced by other firms. To put it succinctly, this serves as a suitable replacement for music centers that no longer exist, but it does not offer anything else. 1. The Go + Play, in my opinion, produces sound that is far superior to that of the Bose Soundlink small, even when the tenfold difference in dimensions is taken into account. 2. The sound quality of Zeppelin Wireless is superior to that of Go + Play in all categories, with the exception of bass, in my opinion. When it comes to the bass, the situation is unclear: the Zeppelin reproduces deeper bass, but it underplays mid-bass; this is a style that is indicative of the majority of B&W's low-cost systems. In turn, Go + Play have some sort of magic of low frequency resonance in specific volumes of rooms; to put it another way, it sometimes "pumps" like a decent sub! 3. I have only had the opportunity to listen to the Naim MuSo once in the showroom, but unlike the Go + Play, it does not have any drops in the midrange.

Pros
  • I've been using Go + Play for about six months now, and she has already won back her initial investment of over 13,500 dollars.
Cons
  • The frequency response becomes unreliable at middle frequencies. In contrast to the Bose SoundLink mini, it is not possible to compensate for the absence of low frequencies when the volume is turned down.