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Nov 26, 2020 4:06 AM

Harman Kardon Onyx Studio 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker (Blue or White)

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$450

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Harman Kardon has the Onyx Studio 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker (Blue or White) on sale for $99.95. Shipping is free.

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  • White
  • Blue

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  • Providing the perfect balance of great sound, iconic design, and premium materials, the Onyx Studio 4 is the epitome of room-filling audio. Crafted to be the best sounding, full featured, portable Bluetooth speaker in its class, the Onyx Studio 4 offers two device connections, up to 8 hours of playtime and Harman Kardon Connect+, which allows you to connect 100+ speakers with the same feature with the touch of a button. Rounding out the Onyx Studio 4 offerings is a built-in microphone with Voicelogic, echo and noise cancellation for crystal-clear conferencing over the speaker.
  • Extended returns: Orders placed from November 3, 2020 through December 31, 2020 can be returned up until January 31, 2021.

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Harman Kardon has the Onyx Studio 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker (Blue or White) on sale for $99.95. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member illmatic33 for finding this deal.

Available Colors
  • White
  • Blue

Editor's Notes

Written by qwikwit | Staff
  • Providing the perfect balance of great sound, iconic design, and premium materials, the Onyx Studio 4 is the epitome of room-filling audio. Crafted to be the best sounding, full featured, portable Bluetooth speaker in its class, the Onyx Studio 4 offers two device connections, up to 8 hours of playtime and Harman Kardon Connect+, which allows you to connect 100+ speakers with the same feature with the touch of a button. Rounding out the Onyx Studio 4 offerings is a built-in microphone with Voicelogic, echo and noise cancellation for crystal-clear conferencing over the speaker.
  • Extended returns: Orders placed from November 3, 2020 through December 31, 2020 can be returned up until January 31, 2021.

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MadCowGrazing
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Bought one of these about a month ago. The treble on this thing, out of the box, is terrible. Bass is great. Changed the EQ on my iPhone to boost the treble though, and it sounds pretty good now. Wouldn't recommend without a way to boost the treble.
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Nov 26, 2020 6:18 PM
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persimmoneNov 26, 2020 6:18 PM
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Do I need to get two for true stereo?
Nov 26, 2020 6:33 PM
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CoolDealFinderNov 26, 2020 6:33 PM
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Wow... still available??? People may have not been biting as the 6 is available for 149
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Nov 26, 2020 6:34 PM
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handicappedfattyNov 26, 2020 6:34 PM
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Poor sound balance. Great bass & poor battery durability for the long term🙁
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Nov 26, 2020 7:04 PM
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LuckySmirkNov 26, 2020 7:04 PM
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Quote from TheTomSawyer View quoted comment :
Damn. Just paid $450 last week.
Lmao $450 is such bs
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Nov 26, 2020 7:05 PM
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eetso2000Nov 26, 2020 7:05 PM
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Tell Amazon to price match!
Nov 26, 2020 7:06 PM
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ek9cv5Nov 26, 2020 7:06 PM
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Is this really $450 msrp?
Nov 26, 2020 7:10 PM
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GeoffreyK24Nov 26, 2020 7:10 PM
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Quote from hamidb303 View quoted comment :
Circuit city is still around?
Right? I had no idea until a deal was posted for Circuit City clearance items a year or two ago. I remember looking into it at the time and, if I remember correctly, that Circuit City sold it's licencing rights off to another company and they can operate the website under the Circuit City name.

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Nov 26, 2020 7:14 PM
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GeoffreyK24Nov 26, 2020 7:14 PM
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Quote from norazi View quoted comment :
Have a google home max and the newer nest audio ($100)... They honestly sound identical at low/medium volume which is what I use 99% of the time. It's rare that I crank up the volume to where the max makes a difference
Wow. That's pretty surprising to hear. I would have thought there would be a huge difference. I guess that is either really good on the Nest Audio or really bad on the Home Max. Thanks for the insight
Nov 26, 2020 7:27 PM
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mikebackerNov 26, 2020 7:27 PM
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Quote from GeoffreyK24 View quoted comment :
I've honestly wondered if I should have gone with the Google Home Max. Because I use Google Assistant everything, I have Chromecast audio and Chromecast enabled speakers everywhere in my home. To get ahold of another Google Chromecast audio to use on my Onyx Studio 4, will cost me another $50 on eBay. At that point, I've spent the same that I would on the Google Home Max. I don't plan to move the Onyx around often at all but I think I settled on this form factor purely for the option to be able to. If you are looking for a purely stationary speaker with the best sound possible AND the added benefit of having Google Assistant integration, I think you have definitely made the right decision
Just get a google home mini and connect it full time to the onyx via Bluetooth
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Nov 26, 2020 7:34 PM
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persimmoneNov 26, 2020 7:34 PM
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I like Harmon Kardon quality and brand but I'm going to pass. I like how the next version up (onyx 5) has 3.5 audio input. And nowadays I prefer if there was some visual indicator that the microphone is on.
Nov 26, 2020 7:56 PM
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TsukaNov 26, 2020 7:56 PM
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Quote from arooni View quoted comment :
Does this ever sell for $450? Does it regularly go on sale for $100?
I got some over a year ago for $150 or so. Hasn't seemingly been worth $450 in years
Nov 26, 2020 8:18 PM
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illh8Nov 26, 2020 8:18 PM
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Second the question regarding how this sounds compared to JBL Charge 2? Can two of these be paired for surround sound??
Nov 26, 2020 8:41 PM
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GeoffreyK24Nov 26, 2020 8:41 PM
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Quote from mikebacker View quoted comment :
Just get a google home mini and connect it full time to the onyx via Bluetooth
That would be my solution except Google has broken the ability to make that work when you play music over speaker groups. It used to work flawlessly. Now, if you try to play music in a group of speakers, all the speakers will play the music except for the Mini that is connected to the Bluetooth speaker and the Bluetooth speaker itself which defeats the point of having them as a part of the group. If you get close to the Bluetooth speaker, all you can hear is a clicking noise but no music. I've tried this process with multiple Bluetooth speakers as well as using a Google Home Mini, Google Nest Mini, and Google Nest Hub. None of the combinations worked. It is a known issue and I found posts of others that had reported it to Google back when it happened but I think it has almost been a year without any fix.

If I were only going to use this as a single speaker, that would work fine but I prefer to leave all of my home speakers combined in different groups since I have multiple speakers in each room.

The closest solution I have found to this problem is a workaround using a Google Chromecast (I had one laying around that we didn't use), a $10 HDMI to VGA converter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VTJV...UTF8&psc=1
and a $5 female to female HDMI adapter.
The converter has a 3.5mm audio out that can be used to connect the Chromecast directly to the speaker via the auxiliary port. Since Chromecasts can be added to speaker groups through the Google Home app, it essentially turns it into a Chromecast Audio.

While it is an effective solution, I've noticed that the Chromecast gets pretty hot. Maybe this is normal as my Chromecast Audio can get pretty warm too, I just don't know. It was just got enough that I decided to unplug it altogether.

Long story short, Google screwed up when they discontinued the Chromecast Audio. Google screwed up again when they broke their smart speaker's ability to cast music via Bluetooth to an external speaker when using speaker groups and not fixing it. I screwed up when I didn't order a bunch of Chromecast Audios when they were clearanced out for $10 each. Amazon made a great move when they made their own version of a Chromecast Audio. And here I am...
Nov 26, 2020 8:42 PM
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GeoffreyK24Nov 26, 2020 8:42 PM
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Quote from illh8 View quoted comment :
Second the question regarding how this sounds compared to JBL Charge 2? Can two of these be paired for surround sound??
Yes, they can pair a bunch of these to play in unison

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Nov 26, 2020 8:45 PM
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GeoffreyK24Nov 26, 2020 8:45 PM
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Quote from persimmone View quoted comment :
I like Harmon Kardon quality and brand but I'm going to pass. I like how the next version up (onyx 5) has 3.5 audio input. And nowadays I prefer if there was some visual indicator that the microphone is on.
This model also has auxiliary input...

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