The products continue to be branded as Harman Kardon. Sidney Harman would change the company's name to Harman International, but the receivers, tuners and amplifiers were still branded Harman Kardon. As the sole head of Harman Kardon, Harman continued to make the company a technical leader in Hi-Fi products. īy 1956, Bernard Kardon decided to retire and sold his interest in the company to Sidney Harman. Early Harman Kardon Hi-Fi equipment can be identified by a distinctive design of a copper plated chassis with a copper and black color scheme for panels and enclosures. The shape, form function and size of the D1000 was a forerunner of the modern integrated receiver. This monaural unit was aimed to introduce non-technical consumers to high fidelity and combined many now-familiar features such as a tuner, component control unit and amplifier in a single chassis. The D1000 was one of the world's first AM/FM compact Hi-Fi receivers, and a forerunner to today's integrated receivers. One year after its founding, in 1954, Harman Kardon introduced their compact size high fidelity receiver, the Festival D1000. The company's first product was an FM tuner. However, integrated high fidelity receivers were not new as, for example, Scott Radio Laboratories had manufactured such items in the late 1930s. Integrated receivers (with a tuner, preamplifier and power amplifier) was an idea to introduce and provide high fidelity performance in a single unit.
In the 1950s Harman Kardon designed some of the first high fidelity audio products that lent to starting the high fidelity business. With $5,000 investment each, Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon founded the Harman Kardon Company in 1953. Due to management changes at Bogen in the early 1950s, both men resigned. Bernard Kardon was the chief engineer at Bogen. In the early 1950s, Sidney Harman was the general manager of the David Bogen Company, a manufacturer of public address systems at the time.
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