12 Facts About Kardon

Harman Kardon is a division of US-based Harman International Industries, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, and manufactures home and car audio equipment.

Harman Kardon was originally founded in 1953 by business partners, Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon.

One year after its founding, in 1954, Harman Kardon introduced their first compact size high fidelity receiver, the Festival D1000.

In 1958, Harman Kardon introduced one of the first stereo receivers, the Festival TA230, aimed at non-technical users with the intention of making high-fidelity stereo widely available.

In 1959, Harman Kardon marketed the Citation II, an early ultra wideband stereophonic tube amplifier.

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Kardon promoted their philosophy of designing high fidelity sound using amplifiers that provided widest possible audio bandwidth.

From 1999 to 2007, Harman Kardon worked to develop digital processing for audio products.

In 2000, Harman Kardon produced the AVR-7000 audio-video receiver, which was able to decode and process HDCD.

Harman Kardon partnered with Apple to design and manufacture these products.

Harman Kardon has made laptop speakers, which have been used in certain models of Toshiba, Acer notebooks, Asus laptops, Apple iMacs and Huawei's M5 tablets.

In 2017, Harman Kardon released a smart speaker, powered by the Microsoft Cortana virtual assistant, called Invoke.

In 2021, Harman Kardon has collaborated with Xiaomi for its newest smartphones, the Xiaomi Mi 11 series are the first smartphones to feature with Harman Kardon-tuned dual speaker setup.