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Review on Smart speaker Harman/Kardon Citation 500, gray by Stanislaw Pietka ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

I am one hundred percent satisfied with the purchase, I recommend this product to everyone.

Choose a column. Of course, I leaned towards . Station, I really like Alice. But unfortunately the speaker is low-power, it is far from being a competitor to the "five hundredth" both in terms of sound power and its quality. As a result, I began to think about buying 4 stations in each room or one "five hundred", figured out how they would react synchronously as they heard - it became scary, I decided, of course, to lean towards the "five hundred" - one for the whole apartment. Rated 5 because. before buying, I was well aware that the Google assistant is quite miserable in itself + has problems with the 2022 language, but at least at a basic level it can turn on the radio / set an alarm clock / talk about the weather and other little things, and not go into Wikipedia for every sneeze like that or Siri. Google, once having superiority in voice technology, blew it in the most mediocre way. Perhaps the problems described by me in the disadvantages column are glitches of my phone, although I don’t see any direct inconsistencies and everything should work. I'll try to change the phone and wait for ates - maybe the situation will change and I will correct the review. As a result, in my particular case, the speaker plays the role of such a voice-controlled home music center + all sorts of nice little things. Before buying, I was basically aware of where the problems could be, their scale and nature, and I agreed to them in order to get high-quality sound, so I didn’t take points for the minuses. my expectations were fully justified, and in the future, perhaps something will be fixed with ates + 2022 will be delivered. I can say that in general, if you close your eyes to all the minuses, then the purchase is worth it, even though it does not have a battery for autonomous operation. Well, excuse me guys, it weighs 7.6 kg, and with a battery it will weigh all 15 kg. its power is 200 watts. 15 kg of pure mobility? Well, that's an option. To everyone who looks at her, I can only say one thing: "My neighbors listen to good music. And it doesn't matter if they like it or not" =)

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Pros
  • 1. Sound. Very cool and loud. I'm not very good at the subtleties, but it sounds very good and the bottoms and middles and tops. Loudness with a margin to wake up two adjacent entrances entirely. Sound 12/10 2. Appearance. Design + materials. Chosen superbly. It is difficult to imagine where this column may not fit, or with what it will not be combined. Appearance 15/10 3. Built-in screen and a bunch of other gadgets / controls and voice templates. It's cool that she was stuffed with so many lotions. 4. Built-in radio that does not need to be configured from the application. It just exists and works properly by the way, the only thing is that it can’t always recognize the name of the radio station by name, you have to say: “turn on XXX. XX FM” - and then it works fine
Cons
  • Everything described below may well be related to my phone and on other devices it may well work fine. 1. Google Assistant. 2022 language does not support. Despite the fact that the interface language of the column is 2022. He's really miserable. Worse than him only Siri from Apple. Alice from is two heads taller than him (at least in our country, but you know, I don’t intend to travel around different countries with a column of 7.6 kg) and it’s a pity that it cannot be changed to anything else. I would not be against the same Alice from or even Cortana from Microsoft. 2. Setting up from Google Home, I understand that the question is less to the manufacturer and more to Google, but damn it, what's the matter? Support is declared from version 6.0 of the bucket, I have either 7.0 or 7.1.1 installed (Pure android without add-ons). As a result, all this is buggy as soon as possible. Connecting third-party music services is impossible in principle: there are two full-time YouTube Music and Google Music. When you click "add a third-party service" stupidly nothing happens. At all. At all. Actually, it's a pretty silly thing. Well, if it doesn’t work, write somewhere, like it doesn’t work on such and such old androids, but not when everything should work and in the end it doesn’t work. 3. Chromecast - buggy and falls off all the time, the horror of how it works, we hope for ates. 4. Bluetooth constantly stutters in the line of sight from a distance of about 2 meters 5. Microphones, well, I would like to be more sensitive. The speaker does not always hear you at 20% loud, and even if it hears, it does not always clearly recognize. To be honest, it doesn’t upset me much, of course, but the touch of premium doesn’t look so thick anymore)

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July 14, 2023
Different pros: Excellent speaker, sound, design, functionality all on top! Cons: Oddly enough, for me they are not
July 13, 2023
Has some pros: got 3000 points back, nice Its cons: Google assistant without 2022