Harman House's BIG Warehouse Sale!!

Harman House is running a big warehouse sale!! Offering a diverse range of products with up to 60 per cent in discounts…..yep, you read it right—60 per cent. 

Prepare to be awestruck with the many products on display from home entertainment systems, speakers, headphones, headsets to docking stations, smartphones and TVs. I am pretty sure that there is something you would definitely want to get your hands on—most especially when you know the major brands that Harman House carries like AKG, harman/kardon, JBL, Infinity and Samsung.  

The big warehouse sale is happening at the Harman House Sheikh Zayed Showroom, which is located at the ground floor of Al Hawai Tower. The store is open till ten in the evening.

*The Harman House Warehouse sale will run until May 25, 2013.  

Amazing DSF 2013 offers at harman house

This year’s edition of the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF), the UAE’s largest annual shopping event, started off last week and will run until early February. It’s another ‘Tis the season to be jolly’ mood for me, despite the Yule season ending a few days ago. The keywords here is ‘sale, good buy and great promotions’ so expect a lot of people making mad dashes to the mall to avail of whatever they can get their hands on.

Speaking of this, I dropped by the ‘harman house’ stores last weekend to see what they have on offer for the festival. Looking at their displays and racks, I saw that the store is throwing the spotlight on the world’s first docking station from JBL for the latest Apple devices bearing the Lightning port connector and the first ever range of harman/kardon headphones. 

The ‘JBL OnBeat Micro’ comes with the new Apple Lightning connector—a small, reversible, all-in-one digital connector, which is 80 per cent smaller than the 30-pin connector utilized in previous Apple devices. It works compatibly with Apple’s latest range of devices like the iPhone 5, the fifth gen iPod Touch and the latest edition of the iPod Nano. The speaker is powered by four AAA batteries and can fit perfectly into any backpack, purse or briefcase.  Its a 'must have' accesory for road warriors, students or anyone else who wants outstanding performance from a go-anywhere Lightning port speaker. The 'JBL OnBeat Micro' can provide up to five hours of playback when used with batteries and charges the iPhone5, the iPod Touch 5th generation and the new iPod Nano when used with the included AC adapter. The unit also comes with a built-in USB connector to power and play other portable devices. JBL's 'OnBeat Micro' also includes a free, downloadable JBL music app to create customized playlists, adjust volume and browse album artwork.

Other products on offer during the festival include; 

Docking Stations—The largest range of iPhone and iPod docking stations from JBL and harman/kardon, are priced from AED 399 to AED 1999.

Headphones—The latest line of headphones, including the pioneering range of headphones from harman/kardon, are priced from AED 139 to AED 1499.

Flat Screen TVs—For DSF 2013, 32-inch models of any Samsung flat screen is offered from AED 1199 to AED 1999.

Home Theatre Systems—‘harman house’ is offering the latest in home theatre systems, which will be priced from AED 1999

Still not convinced, well here's something that will surely get you running over to 'harman house'---aside from its usual value back offer, ‘harman house’ is also offering exciting bundle offers by giving away items like iPad Mini, Bluetooth Adapters and AKG Wireless Headphones. Customers can also be able to enjoy some exclusive offers on selected Samsung flat screens, wherein customers who buy one LED TV, get two Samsung TV’s free. The promotion also includes value-added privileges like Skyward Miles points and interest-free payment plans on credit cards of leading banks for purchases made before February 03, 2013.

Exciting Ramadan deal at harman house

I was at Dubai Mall last week hoping to get away from the stifling summer heat when I found myself walking into my favorite place on earth, the harman house store. I feel like a twelve year old kid whenever I walk into this place as everything an audiophile would want is there for the taking.

Anyways, since it is the Holy Month of Ramadan, I found out that they are running this awesome promotion called, ‘The harman house Double Offer,’ where customers buying any Samsung branded LED, LCD and Plasma TVs will be entitled to a scratch card that gives them a chance to win up to 30 per cent of their purchase value’s worth in audio products sold in-store. If you ask me, this promo is better than any promotion being rolled out during Ramadan, where consumers get back a lot of value on purchase.

Wanting to learn more about the offering, I was told by one of the store’s sales staff that the ‘Double Offer’ promotion will run until September 3, 2012 and is valid throughout all ‘harman house’ stores across the UAE. Well, since I have been planning to get one of them new Samsung Smart TVs then I guess this is the best time to do so as all models are being offered at great prices while also looking to equip these LED, LCD and Plasma TV’s with the latest range of harman/kardon home theatre systems, bringing cinema-like surround sound to the homes of customers in the Middle East. It is really one offer that you will really find hard to resist.      

Harman Kardon’s SB-16: The sound bar speaker that packs a mean punch

My friend TK invited us over to his place for lunch the other day. TK, who I have known for years, is a true audiophile that really takes his audio and video equipment seriously—virtually investing quite a lot in achieving the true audio visual experience. The lunch invite, according to him, was for me to check out his latest find, the ‘Harman Kardon SB-16,’ which he claims would blow my mind away.

Dropping by over the weekend, TK had me and RJ (who was also invited over) feasted on beef briskets and apple cobblers. After the meal, he ushered us into his living room to show off his new baby.

The Harman Kardon SB-16 is a sound bar speaker presented in a sleek 2.1 channel system—splendid with both right and left speakers and built in amplifiers. Aesthetic wise, the SB-16 blended well into TK’s 40+ inch Samsung Smart-TV. With its Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and virtual 3D surround sound circuitry, the SB-16 made us feel like we were actually part of a movie or a concert that TK played on his system.

Spec wise, the SB-16 comes with  two by 3” (75mm) cone midrange speakers and one x 3/4” (19mm) dome tweeter per channel. The speaker is powered by an amplifier power of  2 x 25W and wireless subwoofer amplifier power of 100W. The operating system frequency response is set to 50Hz - 20kHz.

My call on the SB-16 is that it would make a great speaker system for small rooms, as it definitely brings the punch in terms of sound. The non-presence of a remote control, gives users like TK, a command on everything through his TV remote…and yes, that’s all you need to flick you over to another dimension and reality in sound appreciation.

According to TK, he was able to purchase his unit at the harmanhouse branch located atthe Dubai Mall. The SB-16 is priced reasonably.