Review on Renewed Harman Kardon Aura Studio 3: 🔊 Premium Wireless Speaker with Ambient Lighting for Enhanced Design by Eunu Cha ᠌

Name: Renewed Harman Kardon Aura Studio 3: 🔊 Premium Wireless Speaker with Ambient Lighting for Enhanced Design
Item: Renewed Harman Kardon Aura Studio 3: 🔊 Premium Wireless Speaker with Ambient Lighting for Enhanced Design
Rating: 4

November 28, 2022

I expected mediocre quality, but it was a pleasant surprise.

Through experiments, it turned out that with the Aux input, the acoustics wake up instantly even from the deepest sleep. In the house, all devices are running ios / mac os, and therefore it was decided to find an adapter / dongle that will receive an audio signal over the air via Airplay (preferably 2 generations) and feed it to the speaker. And then I accidentally stumbled upon an article that a software ate was released for the old Apple airport express routers, which provides support for airplay 2. On ebay, a used router was bought for 3000, configured through the airport utility in repeater mode, to it by wire Aura 3 connected.
As a result we have:
1) in theory, better sound, since the transmission now takes place via wifi without using compression (unlike bluetooth)
2) there is no nasty bug with column falling asleep. The configured airport with the name "Kitchen" never falls asleep, always hangs in the list of airplay devices and does not lag.
3) now you can make multi-room with simultaneous playback of music from different acoustic systems (chip is airplay 2 generations)
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Pros

Crazy design, looks very unusual in the room, the guests do not even understand what kind of device it is. We can say that the ionizer or humidifier) Pleasant and unobtrusive backlight, which in the dark creates a pleasant atmosphere. There is plenty of power, 100+ watts rock the kitchen to the fullest, I have never done it louder than 30%, because my head is already starting to hurt. The power supply built into the acoustics, there are no these “bricks” lying on the floor. Pleasant omnidirectional sound (for the inexperienced listener). Dense and thick bass, blacks listen to the most👌. There is a 3.5 mm jack, you can connect external audio sources.

Cons

As already mentioned in other reviews - the incomprehensible logic of the bluetooth module. With prolonged inactivity, the acoustics fall asleep, and it is no longer possible to reconnect via the air, you have to go to it and press the touch buttons, which are not located in the most convenient places. It is very annoying, especially if the speaker is in a hard-to-reach place (I have it on a high refrigerator). The problem was solved elegantly, read in the comments.

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Agata yziska ᠌

November 28, 2022

Pros: Great sound, beautiful design. With its cons. Lack of RGB lighting inside the bulb. I think they could add at least an automatic one with a shutdown function.