Review on Portable acoustics Harman/Kardon Go Play Mini, 100 W, white by Janis Ziemelis ᠌

Name: Portable acoustics Harman/Kardon Go Play Mini, 100 W, white
Item: Portable acoustics Harman/Kardon Go Play Mini, 100 W, white
Rating: 2

April 27, 2023

The product does not correspond to the description, poor quality.

It is quite unfortunate that such a reputable company with a history and reputation for products on a regular basis has childhood illnesses that are common to C-brands. Coupled with a really wonderful sound and high-quality case materials, for some reason, small but unpleasant defects coexist. They are like a spoonful of a known substance from a barrel of honey makes a barrel of that same substance. In the  search engine, when you enter "harman kardon go play mini", the 3rd and 4th places in popularity are "battery replacement" and "power controller", which, as it were, hints.

: After 1 year 4 months after the purchase, the column stopped turning on, which was to be expected from the beginning. I wrote to the official online store where the speaker was purchased, regarding the repair.

Bottom line: the speaker is good in terms of sound and design, but if there are problems with the battery charge indication, then it is better to immediately contact the seller for a replacement / refund, as this is a sure sign that there is a problem with the controller. A problem that will inevitably lead sooner or later to breakdown and repair.

Pros

Gorgeous sound, interesting design, quality of materials and workmanship on top.

Cons

Problems began after a week of use - the speaker stopped playing sound from a laptop. The laptop saw it, pairing took place, but when you tried to play the sound, the speaker was silent, and in the sound settings of the laptop, the speaker had the status "connection interrupted". At first, I sinned on the drivers of the audio card and the bluetooth adapter, since in the first days of use the column was not without dancing with a tambourine, but it was connected! But after a week, it finally stopped outputting sound from the laptop. For the purity of the experiment, I tried to connect it to another laptop, but the result turned out to be the same - when trying to play any sound - "the connection is interrupted." At the same time, there were no complaints or problems with the playback of sound from under the android. Like many, a problem with the charge indication immediately appeared: after many hours of charging, three points out of five blink, after disconnecting from the network, all five are on. I believe that if it were not for the error in pairing with a laptop, this problem would then crawl out sideways.