Denon Home 150 Blanc

Visited Leeds branch with the intention of buying a smart speaker. Shop assistant very knowledgeable and able to explain attributes of Denon model that I had chosen. Was able to listen to the unit. Having bought the Denon Home 150, have been impressed with sound quality for a small unit. Connectivity is good and can be used with Alexa.

Good sound for its size, place it in and enclosed place to get more bass from it. Set up was easy via HEOS App. Clear vocals

Had these almost two weeks now. Although the sound is good I'm disappointed in general with them. I found them quite hard to set up with connecting to my Denon amp (2850) but got a lot of help from Euan from the Newcastle store though I don't think he found it straight forward either! The speakers go into standby mode after 45 mins (ish) on any source other than internet radio even though I have them set not to in the HEOS app. I am also getting repeat messages on my mobile (S24 Ultra) that the app needs to be put to deep sleep as it is frequently crashing and making the mobile unstable, and now the Denon AVR app is crashing, has a very high CPU usage, and often stops responding which I never got before I installed the HEOS app, which I think is the underlying problem. I haven't even bothered to try the voice control as yet. I'm now wondering if the Sonos equivalent would have been better but I got the Denon brand as I had the amp. Disgruntled.

I bought two wireless denon speakers but could not get them to pair, the staff at richer sounds mk could not have been more helpful in trying to solve the problem, when everything failed they returned my money in full

Bought 2 of these about a month ago, not quite as easy as the quick guide leads you to believe, but one set up to the rest of my system they have have been excellent in both sound quality and also connectivity