DENON HOME 4.1 SYSTEM

SOUNDBAR, WIRELESS REARS + SUBWOOFER

Denon’s Home Sound Bar 550 is two things. It’s a soundbar, quite a narrow lozenge shape of a bar, the same width as a Sonos Beam but slightly deeper, and taller, at all of 75mm. But it’s also a HEOS speaker, meaning it has the HEOS streaming and multiroom platform inside, which gives app-based access to a variety of music streaming services, also the ability to network with other HEOS speakers through the home, or in the same room.

So with the soundbar we were sent also a pair of Denon Home 150 speakers. These are the smallest of the three standalone wireless speakers in the Denon Home range, all of which we’ve reviewed on their own merits before. These Home 150s came with the soundbar because in addition to being little mono wireless music speakers in their own right, they can be grouped as a stereo pair, so that one plays the left channel and the other plays the right. you can put the two Home 150 speakers behind your listening position and group them with the Sound Bar 550. That creates a four-channel surround system able to play Dolby and DTS soundtracks up to Atmos and DTS:X level, and to provide more expansive sound for