Denon Home 150 Wireless Speaker, Smart Speaker with Bluetooth, WiFi, Works With AirPlay 2, Google Assistant / Siri / Features Alexa Built-In, Music Streaming, HEOS Built-in for Multiroom - Black

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Although a relatively basic affair, the app makes the Denon Home 150's plethora of supported streaming services easily accessible (Image credit: Future) Denon Home 150: Sound quality

Good solid sound, but HEOS and Alexa disappoints The sound from the 150 is of decent enough quality (as you would expect from Denon) but not mind blowing....still, its only a small unit so set expectations accordingly! it works great to listen to in the kitchen where we have it thoughOnce again, my time with this Denon Home setup continues to satisfy with its balance of sonic finesse, dynamics, and a decent amount of energy. The Home 150 is a surprising speaker discovery, and looks to be shaping up to be one of the best-sounding entry-level smart speakers I've heard. At Peter Tyson we pride ourselves on prompt, efficient delivery. Please note that the daily cut off time for all next day delivery services is 3pm. A pair of Denon or Sonos speakers can be matched to their respective soundbars – the Home Sound bar 550 in the Denon’s case and the DSW-1H subwoofer’ or the Beam Gen 2 and Sub Mini in the case of the Sonos. You’ll get a bigger, expansive soundscape from adding them as rear speakers, filling in the information behind you.

In contrast an also-resident B&W Wedge already had the openness to boast, and sounded more even — but with the Home 350 you gain the great merits of the HEOS app and the usefulness of external inputs in more easily accessing your music. And there’s always the top surface to use, which illuminates as you approach to show six user-definable preset buttons, plus play/pause and volume control. Again, these are simple and intuitive to use. Come up to date with Tyler, The Creator’s EARFQUAKE and the 250 managed all three descending bass notes in quantity, just dropping away for the lowest D. Crucially, vocal tones weren’t thinned out in their lower regions, as we sometimes noted from the larger Home 350. Please note that our couriers will try to deliver as arranged but we will not be held responsible for any costs incurred because of non-delivery or factors introduced by third-parties. This service is based upon best endeavour and is not guaranteed. CA1, CA2, CA3, CA4, CA5, CA6, CA7, CA8, CA9, CA10, CA11, CA12, CA13, CA14, CA15, CA16, CA17, CA18, CA19, CA20, CA21, CA22, CA23, CA24, CA25, CA26, CA27, CA28.It instantly impresses with scale and weight beyond the expectations of its size. It’s a mono speaker, boasting a single 25mm tweeter and an 89mm woofer, but it leverages these for a remarkably rich sound, even out in free space on a sturdy stand or table. We confess we had problems pairing all these up into one system; the pairing failed repeatedly, because (it turned out after many hours) the units weren’t all on the same firmware. Yet they’d all received an update, and the HEOS app was telling us everything was up to date. On­go­ing de­vel­op­ment con­tinued with the orig­i­nal core ‘Avega’ team in North Syd­ney, along with a sec­ond Heos R&D Cen­tre in Cal­i­for­nia, and of course Denon in Ja­pan. Final verdict Our Installation Service only includes connecting to existing points and fixings. This does not include installing or moving plumbing, connection points or electrics. Installing new points or moving existing points is the customer’s responsibility we can recommend local tradesmen however this will be at the customer’s expense and we not accept any liability for their work.

We were nearly similarly rude about the sound of the Home 250 as well, given it was serving up a rather brash version of our music compared with either the 150 or 250. But we found that the unit’s EQ had arrived set, either by default or by a previous user, to bump up the bass and heavily push up the treble. The Denon Home 150 can be used as a stereo pair, or as rear surrounds for the Denon Home Sound bar 550 to create a 5.1 system. Sound Quality They are all HEOS-equipped, so that platform delivers full streaming access to online music services, network streaming from music shares up to high-res audio quality, and the ability to function in a multiroom system with other HEOS-equipped products. Proximity-sensing buttons light up as you move your hand moves towards them. This gives seamless control, without the distracting light of permanently lit controls. We confess we deliberately ran the rears a little hot, pushed up to accentuate the surround; it may not be entirely correct, but it can be more fun. Conversely we levelled the subwoofer where we could just hear it, which is less intrusive.

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You might do adopt this arrangement if you took advantage of the ability to stereo pair two Home 350s.) From directly in front, bass frequencies sounded fairly balanced in the region above 100Hz, whereas from elsewhere in our room the combination of both bass drivers caused a frequency dip up to 140Hz, causing the separation of sound we were hearing. Different positioning and room shapes will change this unpredictably. The Home 150 is the smallest effort in the Denon’s wireless speaker range , with smarts, built-in HEOS and Hi-Res audio skills.