Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Denon Home 600 is part of the Denon HEOS line of connected home audio equipment. While it has the solid, full sound that you would expect from Denon, it has some shortcomings that are difficult to impossible to overlook unless you are fully committed to the HEOS ecosystem – and one or two that are impossible to overlook even then. Starting with setup, you must download the HEOS app and go through the setup process. This will connect it via WiFi to other HEOS components from Denon and Marantz, allowing for multi-room playback. Connectivity is through Bluetooth, mini-jack, or USB-C. Note that there is no HDMI eARC connector. The HEOS app allows you to set the bass responsiveness of the Home 600, but only by specifying if you are placing it away from a wall (full bass), next to a wall (medium), or in a corner (least bass). Even at its lowest setting, the Home 600 if very bass-heavy, which means you’ll have to reset the equalizer on your source device, as the HEOS app has no actual graphic or parametric equalizer. Once set up, the speaker sounds very clear and full, with decent stereo separation. While sold as an ATMOS speaker, ATMOS only works under very specific conditions. ATMOS playback comes through the HEOS compatible receiver or, if you are streaming through the HEOS app, ATMOS music from Amazon Prime Music or Tidal. ATMOS music on Apple Music will play only as standard stereo. This is where the missing HDMI eARC connector comes in. This is an industry standard that would allow the Home 600 to play ATMOS music from and ATMOS source. Masimo, the parent company of Denon and Marantz, has opted for a closed environment rather than embracing an industry standard connection. This is a smart speaker that supports Siri, Alexa, and Google. I was able to test it with Siri, and this part worked well. You can also turn off the smart speaker feature completely or limit it to only the services you want to connect to. Overall, it’s a solid sounding speaker, but the lack of meaningful tone controls take it down a notch, and I am not willing to change out my entire audio system for HEOS (and be locked into a single vendor from that point forward), nor am I willing to switch from Apple Music to Amazon or Tidal just to get ATMOS sound. This is the lesson of vendor lock-in and poorly executed apps. It's how you turn an otherwise solid product into one that's hard to recommend.