Denon Home 350 review

• Not exactly discreet
• No Chromecast
• Pricey

Denon has extended its scope of remote speakers with three new models: the section level Home 150; the mid-go Home 250; and the leader Home 350, as explored here. Each of the three incorporate Denon’s HEOS multiroom framework, alongside worked in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, in addition to the capacity to work with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant for voice control.

The Home 350 games a degree of construct quality proportionate with its head of-the-extend status, with a sizeable bureau that houses a couple of excellent speakers and ground-breaking intensification. Similarly as with all the speakers in the HEOS run, it tends to be utilized all alone, as a feature of a sound system pair, or even on encompass obligations in a 5.1-channel framework with a Denon DHT-S516H soundbar and subwoofer.

Plan

• Measurements: 38 x 22.5 x 18cm/Weight: 6.3kg
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplay 2
• Dark or white completions

The Denon Home 350 isn’t probably going to win any plan grants, with a bureau that verges on the exhausting. It’s only a basic box with a fold over texture grille, and a decision of dark or white completions. Anyway it’s fabricated like a tank, with a hardened glass top that includes a bit of tastefulness, and a status light under the Denon logo at the front.

The associations incorporate Wi-Fi that underpins 2.4 and 5GHz, alongside Bluetooth and Apple AirPlay 2. There’s additionally an Ethernet port at the back, alongside a 3.5mm sound system simple jack and a USB port for outside capacity gadgets like hard drives and memory sticks. Be that as it may, there’s no earphone attachment, so you may need to turn things down around evening time.

Highlights

• Works with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant
• HEOS multiroom/encompass sound
• 24bit/192kHz DAC
• Roon Ready

The Denon Home 350 structures part of the organization’s scope of HEOS items, permitting it to make a thorough multi-room framework, or go about as a major aspect of a sound system pair. The stage even permits you to utilize two of these speakers as pair of genuinely over-specced backs in a 5.1-channel framework worked around a Denon soundbar.

There are some great parts inside, with every speaker made out of a 3/4-inch tweeter, 2-inch midrange driver, and a 6-inch woofer for the low-end. There are six Class D computerized speakers to give capacity to every one of the drivers, guaranteeing a lot of snort.

This better sonic ability is put than acceptable use, with gapless playback of high-goal sound up to 192kHz/24-cycle (documents in FLAC, WAV, ALAC, and DSD 2.8/5.6MHz arrangements), either through an organization or utilizing the back USB port. The Home 350 is even Roon Ready if that is your sack.

There’s help for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, however at present a different outside gadget is required. Nonetheless, a future firmware update ought to draw in the two mouthpieces on the top board, at last permitting voice connection without the requirement for an outsider gadget.

Interface

• Contact delicate controls
• HEOS application (iOS and Android)
• Voice control by means of Amazon or Google

The Denon Home 350 has contact delicate controls on the top which, on account of a vicinity sensor, light up when your hand approaches them. The controls comprise of play/delay, volume up/down, and six presets for your preferred radio broadcasts.

You can rapidly and effectively access your remote organize and make a multiroom framework utilizing the committed application. This permits you to appreciate the equivalent or diverse music in various rooms, and even gathering two HEOS speakers together as the left and right channels of a sound system pair.

The application gives direct power over music administrations like Tidal, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, Spotify, TuneIn, and Soundcloud, and since these applications inserted, you can continue streaming music without your cell phone being continually fastened to the 350.

As a multiroom framework HEOS is very much planned and strong, making an organization that is unshakable and responsive. There’s no detectable deferral, with fantastic synchronization, and the control and communication is additionally impeccable, permitting you to change the arrangement and flawlessly playback content.

Sound Quality

The Denon Home 350 establishes a quick connection, with a certain and roomy conveyance that delivers an astonishing measure of bass. This speaker positively has enough capacity to deal with the biggest of lounge rooms, yet given the full-bodied low-end presence, you ought to likely abstain from placing it in a corner.

There’s no denying this is a cultivated entertainer, and playing a 24-digit/96kHz document of Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell uncovers extraordinary textural detail, with a cleaned up mid-range and high recurrence lucidity. The faultless creation is delivered in the entirety of its wonder, and gratitude to the 6-inch woofers in this speaker the low-end expansion is really great, giving the drums a percussive snap.

This low recurrence ability is especially perceptible when tuning in to The Greatest Showman soundtrack, particularly during the large bass notes that kick-off the collection. The Home 350 gives the drum hits and stepping feet an appropriate subsonic punch and, notwithstanding being generally huge, the general soundstage sounds a lot greater than you’d anticipate from a solitary speaker.

There’s an enthusiasm to the Denon that is certain to kindly and an uptempo number like This is Me is settled with such irresistible euphoria that won’t have the option to oppose tapping your foot. But at the same time there’s a control to the conveyance, guaranteeing singular instruments and voices are particular, while the general apparent parity stays strong.

The bass consistently traverses with the midrange, giving a strong establishment without overwhelming the center frequencies. This excursion up the recurrence extend stays uninteresting as sounds cross into the higher registers, particularly during the tune Never Enough. It’s overwhelmed by a shrill female vocal, yet the Home 350 never sounds stressed, unforgiving or sibilant.

The application is exceptionally powerful, permitting to effortlessly get to web-based features, for example, Spotify and Tidal, and the Denon demonstrates similarly as capable with more packed substance. It additionally has a great powerful range, changing from cat’s breath to awkwardly noisy in a moment.

Denon has been shy about the intensification in this speaker, yet it unquestionably goes extremely boisterous without contorting.

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Decision

The Denon Home 350 is a take out remote multiroom speaker that is not little or modest, yet brags gigantic sums power, joined with a definite and refined conveyance. This cultivated entertainer can deal with bigger rooms, in spite of the fact that the stacked bass can be a triviality overpowering, so abstain from placing the speaker in corners.

The Home 350 is an easy decision in case you’re as of now dedicated to Denon’s HEOS multiroom framework, however regardless of whether you’re not it makes the ideal beginning spot. This speaker easily consolidates network availability, including Apple AirPlay 2 and Bluetooth, with pretty much every web-based feature, making it an alluring and all around made speculation.