NETWORKED SOUNDBAR + SUBWOOFER HEOS HOMECINEMA

HEOS by Denon is a full wireless multiroom system, and a fine one — two HEOS units won Sound+Image’s first ever awards for multiroom products in the 2015 awards. In addition to three sizes of speaker unit, an amp and a receiver unit, the range has recently expanded with the introduction of the HEOS 1 speaker unit (see panel), the HEOS Drive (a four-zone HEOS amp and controller), and this soundbar and subwoofer solution, the HEOS HomeCinema. And this has a headstart in our affections, since were we betting folk, we’d put money on this unit deriving a chunk of its audio prowess from another Denon soundbar, the award-winning DHT-S514.

But this soundbar has full HEOS abilities, so will not only handle your TV and movie sound, it also has access to all the streaming music sources which come under control of the HEOS app for iOS and Android. HEOS is closely tied to its app — on the whole, you need a smart device to even turn on a HEOS system. But understanding that