

Basic design: To be considered for this guide, a Bluetooth speaker had to be designed primarily for home use-to stay mostly in one spot indoors.
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It combines this bass with crisp treble and a large dynamic range to create a full sound with a good amount of depth. With its large size it was able to produce, deep, resonant bass, which wasn't quite as deep but was much clearer than the bass of the JBL Charge 3. Bluetooth codecs: For reasons I cite in my blog about Bluetooth audio codecs, we didn’t mandate the inclusion of any specific audio codec-the technology that reduces the amount of data in a digital audio file so it can stream reliably over a Bluetooth connection. Pricing for the Onyx Studio 6 is certainly confusinga list price of 479.95 is replaced by permanent sale prices of anywhere from 200 to 300, including from Harman Kardon itself. The Onyx Studio 4 earned a high score of 8 in our sound quality testing.For more information on Wi-Fi–based speakers, see our guides to the best multiroom wireless speaker system, the best Alexa speaker, and the best Google Home speaker. They do not include any Wi-Fi–based technology like Sonos, Alexa, or Chromecast. A newer model Harman Kardon Onyx Studio 5 was released in October 2018. Wireless connectivity: Speakers tested for this guide are Bluetooth-only.
