Harman Aura Studio3 is currently Harman's flagship Bluetooth speaker, and its beautiful transparent glass shell is very eye-catching. The huge box gives people a very practical feeling, and of course it is expensive. A Bluetooth speaker with only music playing function costs more than 2000 yuan. In today's era when the price of most similar products is only 1000 yuan or even lower, it is really courageous. Of course, this has something to do with Harman's brand bonus and excellent design.
Huawei Sound X is obviously different. The most striking difference is volume. The volume of sound X is much lower than that of Aura Stuido3. Compared with Harman with plexiglass appearance, the polished mirror surface can give people a very crystal clear feeling. The functions of the two are more different. Sound X is a future-oriented wireless speaker, which can be linked with Huawei mobile phones, bringing many unexpected and convenient operations. Finally, the price, the price of Sound X 1699 yuan is relatively more intimate.
Since they are all speakers, the first thing we have to compare is their basic function, sound playback. First of all, Harman Aura Studio3 needs to be paired with a mobile phone before use. Aura Studio3 has six surround speakers and a large-size woofer at the bottom of the fuselage. One thing to pay attention to when playing music is not to put Aura Studio3 on any surface that is easy to vibrate, such as glass desktop, plastic/veneer, because its bass unit is at the bottom of the fuselage. If you put it on these surfaces, Aura Studio3 will make these bottom surfaces vibrate and make a buzzing noise when playing music with lower frequency, which is hard enough and thick enough for placing this speaker. On the whole, the sound of Aura Studio3 is still very good, the high frequency is dark, and the overall music atmosphere is good, especially the low frequency sense is very prominent, but sometimes it is accompanied by the problem of "buzzing", so I suggest you listen to concerts with less low frequency sense such as pop sound.
The audio hardware settings of Sound X are obviously different from those of Harman. In order to pursue the best sound experience, Huawei decided to find the top partners in the industry to complete this task. Finally, they invited DEVIALET Divare, a famous French audio brand, to design speaker hardware for Sound X. Enthusiastic friends must be very familiar with Divare's Phantom“Egg "speaker, which is probably the most" HiFi "and the most highly rated one among all advanced wireless speakers on the market at present. Among them, Phantom's most sought-after design is a side-mounted pneumatic bass unit similar to fish gills. The woofer units located on both sides of the speaker adopt pneumatic layout, and the huge aerodynamic force makes it emit a huge low-frequency sense in a smaller unit volume while maintaining extremely low dynamic distortion. There is no doubt that Sound X has inherited most phantom designs, including this creative pneumatic bass unit design.
At the same time, Sound X also set up six advanced full-frequency units around the fuselage, thus ensuring 360-degree all-round sound performance. Because all units are lateral, Sound X avoids the low-frequency distortion like Aura Studio3, so you don't have to consider its placement position, and any surface will not have a significant impact on the sound, as long as the speaker is placed upright. Sound X has better sound permeability than Harman, especially the high-frequency air sense. In terms of low frequency sense, it is less than Harman, but the quality is obviously higher, and there will be no buzz at all. This kind of sound performance makes it more suitable for playing all kinds of music, so there is no doubt that Sound X is better in applicability.
In terms of user experience, Harman Aura Studio3 is generally very convenient except that it needs Bluetooth for the first time. There are only two buttons on the whole machine body, one is the on-off button, and the other is the Bluetooth pairing multi-mode button, which avoids accidental touch and feels very online. The experience is very good only from the use of music playback, but it is also all its functions. Of course, if you think decorative ornaments are also a function, Harman Aura Studio3 is undoubtedly outstanding in this respect, and any corner will be colored. The huge transparent plexiglass shell is very eye-catching
Huawei SoundX has many low-key decorative attributes, all-black design atmosphere but not publicity. If you are not satisfied with this appearance, you can pay attention to its other color schemes. The design of platinum contrast color will be more fashionable and eye-catching. In terms of functional experience, Sound X is smarter than Harman. If you happen to use a Huawei mobile phone, you only need to "touch" the phone and speaker every time you go home, and you can complete the operation of device connection and music playback. The experience is completely different from the traditional Bluetooth speaker.
In addition, Sound X also supports DLNA function. In the daily use environment, a mobile phone/computer or any device supporting DLNA function can easily connect Sound X in the same WiFi LAN, and deliver completely lossless audio resources to the speaker for playback. For example, all kinds of music apps commonly used in our mobile phones can perfectly support DLNA function to connect SoundX. It is very different from ordinary Bluetooth connection. Through the DLNA function, we can send the high-bit-rate music resources in the music APP to Sound X completely lossless, without compression like Bluetooth transmission. Therefore, theoretically, this connection method can obtain a very excellent and almost lossless music experience, which is undoubtedly incomparable to traditional Bluetooth speakers.
Why use Sound X as the representative of future wireless speakers?
Many friends will definitely ask Jiu Duan. Why did you choose Sound X as an example? Why not Apple's HomePod? There are many reasons, and I also want to talk to you in detail at this point.
First of all, as an enthusiast, although it is difficult for wireless speakers to surpass traditional wired speakers, I still hope that it can have basic hard quality and better music playback effect. Maybe many friends don't know about France Divare Audio. In fact, it is a well-known brand in the field of HiFi audio, and it has even been rated as one of the top three audio brands in the world by many industry veterans.
Divare has a number of patented technologies and unique digital amplification technologies in the fields of home audio and car audio. And in the research and development ability of top speakers and amplifiers, it can be said that it is the top in the industry. Among them, DEVIALET Phantom is the most famous speaker, which is touted by many senior audio enthusiasts. Although as a wireless speaker, the price of different versions of DEVIALET Phantom is as high as tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan, thanks to the black technology such as pneumatic bass unit, independent sound cavity and SAM technology mentioned above, the sound performance of DEVIALET Phantom is not even lower than the high-end bookshelf audio products that are several times more expensive.
Because of the above, the Sound X designed by Divare for Huawei can be said to be the most "HiFi" in the same type of speakers in the industry in terms of hardware configuration. It is equipped with almost all black technologies on DEVIALET Phantom, such as Divare's 60W dual bass unit design and Divare's SAM bass enhancement technology. These black technologies enable it to realize the low-frequency performance of large-size speakers in a small volume. The symmetrical layout of the push-push well counteracts the mutual interference between the two bass units, provides a greater sense of low frequency through the huge aerodynamic amplitude of 20mm, and controls the distortion of low frequency well. At the same time, the six 8W full-range speaker units of Sound X all adopt independent sound cavity design, which is different from other multi-units with the same sound cavity. The independent sound cavity design makes the mutual interference of each unit almost isolated, which is the most important reason why the middle and high frequencies of Sound X sound clearer and more ethereal than other speakers of the same type. At present, Jiu Duan has only seen these very good designs on Sound X. You should know that the price of such a luxurious hardware configuration and such a good sound speaker is only one tenth of that of the prototype DEVIALETPhantom, and the cost performance of Sound X is too outstanding.
Secondly, although Divare has given a good design in the acoustic design of Sound X, Sound X can't be called a successful and representative wireless speaker product without the optimization of software and the matching of using environment. Fortunately, these aspects are obviously Huawei's strengths. The first is optimization in a closed environment. Both Sound X and Huawei mobile phones can realize hair-trigger voice transmission. No matter what you are doing, playing music, watching movies or even making a phone call, as long as you touch the phone with Sound X, the sound will automatically "pass" from the phone to the speaker, and the experience will be seamlessly switched.
Therefore, no matter how compared, the strength of Huawei Sound X is the most representative of its kind, which is why Jiu Duan chose it as an example for comparison.