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hey everyone Jimmy with Jim's review room welcome back to another one of my videos I've been saying it for the last several months voice-activated smart devices are gonna be a really big thing going into 2018 I can't wait to the days where we have speakers like built into the walls and the ceiling and such we can walk around like Iron Man just calling up Jarvis or something like that but anyways in the meantime we've got this puppy right here this is the Harman Kardon allure this retails for two hundred and forty-nine dollars completely on sale right now for 199 as always I placed my affiliate links down in that video description below click on those links as they'll give you the most updated prices in real time you never know when these things might go on sale also as always being transparent with you guys Harman Kardon Vista sent us over a review my assessment was not altered in any way please watch the entire video for both pros and cons all right I'm Jimmy with James review I'm here to help you make that purchase decision welcome everyone to another review all right folks going over the physical features first this thing looks really good really sleek really modern maybe something you'll find in John wicks home who knows but the reason being is because it's all black it's aluminum down here we got this clear looking dome up top and it is hard plastic it's like an acrylic material that is and it's pretty thick I don't foresee a cracking or breaking or so keep in mind this is not a portable Bluetooth speaker this is meant to be stationary there's no built-in battery so if you guys are keeping this stationary in one room or so you don't have a crazy kid like I do or maybe a pet that's in wild and crazy I think you should be perfectly fun but other than that again gorgeous aluminum feel all the way around there's perforations or little holes all the way around here and it's not just for aesthetics because there's three individual drivers all the way around the speaker to give you 360 degree audio which will demonstrate shortly and the very bottom there is a system whoops this blasting audio down here and again because the speaker is slightly elevated it's gonna give you that bass response that's evenly distributed for all sorts of room types on top we'll go over the physical buttons I just pressed the mute button so that way you don't activate Alexa just in case on the very top here there's vom control buttons a first one if when we first got this for a couple of days it was a little not as intuitive as we thought it would be eventually were trying to swipe it over so that's pretty cool and such once what we did have a little bit of trouble we got better at it just took a little bit of time to get used to you can hold the bun I found out to basically lower and increase volume but why are we using these physical buttons this is a voice-activated speaker you can see the command and have it just Alexa von five and they're going goes to 50% I'm sorry if I'm activating your speakers at home is probably the last time hopefully the last time I mention her name bother that going over to the side there's your Bluetooth button here pretty discreet I'm surprised they put it back here not on top or so this does have Wi-Fi this does have bluetooth but I get more into that pretty shortly here but other than that there's no other physical features it's no NFC for easy pairing with your phone via bluetooth unfortunately and also there's no three-and-a-half millimeter ports for you to physically connect a device to have this play but again as I stated earlier that is Wi-Fi you have to have Wi-Fi for Alexa to work here to use those voice commands and if you for Somers they don't want to use Wi-Fi you don't want to use the online services to stream like Spotify Pandora iHeartRadio and such tune in you can use bluetooth that is available right off of your phone the business that we got was perfectly fine we put this at the end of the office walk to the other side of the office and it's about 4045 linear feet to the next wall and no big deals whatsoever no the only limitations I guess you can say although this is Wi-Fi enabled although the Amazon speakers have multi room capabilities you don't have that with this one you can't have multiple alors or multiple other elect so devices and have them all play audio at the same time now the other issue that I found here was unfortunately if I am on my phone and you're playing music here sorry about that watch beeping but for playing music so and let's say I decide to make a phone call or I receive a phone call although there's built-in mics for the the voice activation feature it disconnects and my voice call goes to here basically you cannot use this for phone calls now those two limitations Harman Kardon said that those are limitations for now there might be a firmware down the road can see it on their website this and maybe so we'll see what we'll find out sooner or later other than that that's really about it I do wish that there was a physical connection Jessica said I want to physically connect this device and I'm saying would be nice just to tap my phone to connect other than that that's really about it the app itself is just really straightforward just use that you basically set up your device and connect elect so if your Wi-Fi you can't adjust or customize the LEDs this is definitely not like a JBL pulse tree where you get rainbow or crap-ton of cones we can customize it does glow this really nice ambient kind of like this grayish tone white tone which looks really cool I really like it and that's really it about the LEDs now regarding Amazon's performance with voice activating speakers sometimes it has trouble picking up your voice not with us completely off obviously and having it in the back of the room you can walk in any distance talking a mostly relatively normal voice and the allure is still able to pick up your voice in your voice commands now with the even my Amazon echo that's in the back over there usually at 70 percent volume I usually cannot activate the voice activation fee I can't say elec so you know turned down or turn off or next song and such which is very unfortunate with this one I've noticed 70 percent volume I'm able to stand pretty far back about 15 feet 20 feet back and speaking a slightly elevated voice to an elevated voice and still activate with that I'm yelling like crazy and I can't basically turn it off or stop the music or sip to the next track so that's one benefit with the allured here the voice the before wave far-field microphones is what they call it does work really well ii I don't know if this is a Bluetooth thing or an Alexa thing here but when I'm playing music especially via bluetooth on my phone and I say Alexa skip to the next song it unfortunately doesn't so that's something to be aware about as well of course you can do that over Wi-Fi you can do that with like Amazon music and the other programs or services that you might subscribe to you but over Bluetooth you do yeah you do encounter that limitation it's alright folks let me jump into the audio test please again put on your headphones or earphones for the most accurate representation her demo of this product here and again if you guys can please show you support by like and subscribing and following me I'm my personal social media account at Jimmy long official and or Jim's review room all right folks get ready alright test test one two three hopefully this sounds good to you guys make sure we got your headphones or earphones on yeah number one Oh and there you have folks hopefully you guys enjoyed that please again please show your support by liking subscribing and coming down below throw me some a fire emojis that always does help as well so the audio Almont it sounds pretty darn good comparing I know there's not apples to apples but I did have my sony xba-40 i know got it somewhere around here I didn't use this to I don't wanna say do a head-to-head comparison but just more as reference on seeing word of the stands and also my JBL extreme Bose sound both sound like revolt plus this sounds a little bit better than all these other Bluetooth speakers it does offer a little bit more bass or cleaner basement is even compared to the extreme or the XP 40 this does get loud at 70% vomits able to fill up a large room and we do have a large open area here it does lose a little bit of detail once it get up to that maximum level but other than that most people will most likely be blasting this probably at 7% but I'm pretty sure confident about that it also does sound a little more brighter or airier a little bit more forward and open overall very clean sound very detailed sound highs never ever singing never ever ear ringing minimal listening fatigue overall love the audio signature for the price it is comparable again I'm just comparing two Bluetooth speakers again using it as a reference that is sounded great the only problem the only only problem here regarding audio that I've encountered is if you're watching movies on this for some reason it was out of sync for me I tested this on my samsung s A+ and just simply just plain Netflix really ever have this issue but the lips were moving and flapping and then the audio was coming either a head or beforehand either where it just wasn't synced so over all right guys that's the Harman Kardon on lore hope you guys enjoyed this review hopefully it helped you in some way I can keep me in mind Jin's review room is here to help you make that purchase decision you guys take care now catch you guys the next one by