With these three strong, musical and versatile smart speakers, together with a heap of existing HEOS family members, Denon’s Home series looks to be a true contender for your multiroom dollar if the cabinet design and pricing appeals. All three performed well, with the Home 250 proving a particular sonic sweetspot.

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. Bass is powerful even at lower volumes during Foo Fighters' All My Life and Muse's Hysteria, which crashes through the room with aplomb. Not so the Home 150 and 250, which each had connection issues, the app failing to find either of them repeatedly from either an iPhone or an iPad Pro, so that we had to turn to the suggested alternatives, which involve either WPS button-press connection to your router, or giving the Home 150 an Ethernet connection via the supplied cable. 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. With over 110 years of experience, in the home and studio, Denon are a world-class audio brand. The Home 150 uses a 2-way speaker system to deliver a broad spectrum of sound, with excellent detail throughout. Powered by an efficient Class-D amplifier, the speaker produces a punchy sound with the smoothness you’d expect from Denon.Ultimately its size and power have their limits at a point beyond which congestion and distortion become evident, but that point is impressively loud for a speaker so small. As for linearity, while its response to a sweep is less than smooth, with a notable push right down low then a dip from 60 to 100Hz, the balance is enjoyable in practice, spoken voices are tonally accurate, and there’s even a good sense of atmosphere around the different elements, an especially impressive achievement when working in mono. Positioning near a wall or a corner can enlarge the sound still more, at the cost of less predictable frequency response.

The Home 150 is the smallest effort in the Denon’s wireless speaker range , with smarts, built-in HEOS and Hi-Res audio skills.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 The Home 150 supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi, and is AirPlay 2 compatible. You can opt to use the Home 150 as a Bluetooth speaker and skip the Wi-Fi experience. We find the HEOS app enjoyable and easy to use, especially as it doesn’t have the habit of some others in losing sight of the target device and having to reconnect each time you open the app. So although there’s no physical remote available or possible here, you miss it less than on those other systems. As with the Home Sound Bar 550, we haven't given the Home 150 speaker a full Tom's Guide review just yet. But based on what I've heard from this compact speaker so far, it sounds like a worthy challenger to the top-ranking best smart speakers around, and we're planning a full rated review to follow shortly.

Yet it was equally impressive rendering the more delicate acoustic version of Message to My Girl which followed. Aside from a slight sibilance to vocal consonants, this sounds like the presentation from a speaker substantially larger, and it has an excitement, a punchy presentation akin to a mix which has been energised through a favourable dynamic limiter. The Denon Home 150 is a small speaker so in an ideal world, you'll need to pair it up with another or even a subwoofer and soundbar to get a truly room filling experience. Despite that, its small form works well in a living room, kitchen or even bathroom. There's also AirPlay 2 and voice assistant support. The latter is just as responsive as you'd expect from a dedicated solution, so it's useful. Being able to set up your own playlists across multiple services as well as opting to import music from your home network or an external hard drive is also useful and pretty simple to do. Playing against its rivals here, the spaciousness proved Denon’s main sonic advantage over a Naim Qb positioned alongside; switching between their two presentations of Walk on the Wild Side, the Qb’s sound was far boxier, relatively closed down up top, while the Home 350 clarified the shuffling rhythm and the consonants in the vocal, yet was not entirely natural, with a slight thinness from that dip in the local part of the vocal. With the rear output firing more against a wall or corner, the uneven anomalies increased and the bass softened, but the sound became even more huge. It also retained its impressive sense of space. On a first-take bootleg of The Beatles Thank You Girl, the ping-pong left-channel drums were pushed by the angled drivers to a position wider than the box itself.Pair two Denon Home 150 speakers using the HEOS app and enjoy true stereo. Denon Home 150 speakers work as left and right speakers to provide a Hi-Fi quality system, just without the system. Even listen to your Hi-Res collection with the accuracy and attention to detail your music deserves. GET THE AMAZING HEOS EXPERIENCE. These range from the massive market-leading multichannel AV receivers made by both companies down through high-quality stereo amplifiers and on to neat little smart amps like the Marantz M-CR612 (known as the Melody X in some markets) which we had under review last issue, and which was still in residence when these Home units arrived. And, of course, any of the original HEOS range, which includes the HEOS Amp and the streaming add-on, the HEOS Link. As the front bar doesn’t push sound sideways in any particular manner, it makes sense to put the rears wide, and this delivered a fairly immersive soundfield with Disney+’s Jungle Cruise, the rear atmosphere awash with toucans and water swooshes, while the subwoofer made itself known under the throaty growl of Frank’s pet jaguar, the torpedo explosion, the river rapids, and plenty more. 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. AB31, AB32, AB33, AB34, AB35, AB36, AB37, AB38, AB41, AB42, AB43, AB44, AB45, AB46, AB47, AB48, AB49, AB50, AB51, AB52, AB53, AB54, AB55, AB56