Denon Home 200 Wireless Smart Speaker

The Denon Home 200 makes a rather convincing case for letting good sound become part of the furniture. Its elevated, understated design sits comfortably in just about any room, while the sound is anything but background material. A 4-inch woofer and custom-engineered wide-bandwidth stereo tweeters deliver a balanced presentation with clear highs, full bass and plenty of detail, with Denon’s Sound Master tuning adding a natural warmth to the mix. There’s also support for Dolby Atmos Music, giving compatible recordings a broader, taller soundstage with a greater sense of dimension. High-resolution music can be streamed over Wi-Fi from services including TIDAL, Qobuz and Amazon Music, while lossless formats including DSD are supported via USB or NAS-connected devices.

The Denon Home 200 is equally at home as part of a larger system. HEOS makes setup and control remarkably straightforward, allowing you to stream, group speakers and create separate listening zones throughout the house, or wirelessly pair two Home 200s for a more spacious stereo presentation. For home theatre, they can even form part of a wireless 5.1 system when combined with the Denon Home Sound Bar 550 and Denon Home Subwoofer. Connectivity is sensibly broad too, with Bluetooth, AirPlay 2, USB and an auxiliary input for phones, portable players and other sources. In short, it’s a very modern approach to the wireless speaker: elegant enough to leave on display, capable enough to take music rather seriously, and simple enough that you can be listening within minutes of opening the box.