Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Denon HOME 600 Wireless Smart Speaker completely exceeded my expectations. From the moment I powered it on, the sound quality was impressive. The bass is deep without sounding muddy, vocals come through crystal clear, and the overall balance makes every genre of music sound rich and detailed. Whether I’m streaming jazz, rock, podcasts, or movies, the audio feels immersive and room-filling in a way that smaller speakers simply cannot match. Denon clearly focused on premium sound performance, and it shows immediately. One thing buyers should absolutely know is that this speaker is a lot bigger in person than it appears in the product pictures. The photos make it look closer to a compact tabletop speaker, but the HOME 600 has a substantial size and weight to it. Personally, I see that as a positive because the larger cabinet helps deliver the powerful sound output and strong bass response. Just make sure you have enough shelf or counter space ready before it arrives. Another important point is that this is not a portable speaker. It’s designed more as a serious home audio component rather than something you casually carry from room to room or take outside. There’s no built-in battery, and honestly, the sound quality is so robust that it deserves a permanent spot in a living room, office, or entertainment setup anyway. The setup process was straightforward, wireless connectivity has been reliable, and the overall build quality feels premium and durable. The charcoal finish also looks sleek and modern without drawing too much attention. If you want a wireless smart speaker with true high-end sound, powerful volume, and excellent clarity, the Denon HOME 600 is absolutely worth considering.

The Denon Home 600 Smart Speaker is a noticeable step up from my current Home 350. It brings Dolby Atmos, AirPlay 2, and Siri support (though oddly, no Alexa at this time), along with the ability to stream through the HEOS app from services like Spotify, TIDAL, TuneIn, Pandora, and iHeartRadio. Setup I was genuinely surprised by the size of this thing—it’s big. At 21.8” (W) x 13.2” (D) x 12.48” (H) and 26.5 lbs, it’s not exactly subtle. Setup, however, was easy. Since I already use the HEOS app for my other Denon gear, I just added the new device and followed the prompts. The front white LED is brighter than I’d like, but thankfully the app lets you dim it—or turn it off entirely. My music sources (Pandora, Amazon, iHeart, and my NAS library) were already linked, so everything synced right up. Design-wise, the Home 600 is understated. Clean, simple, maybe even elegant… but part of me wishes Denon had taken a few more risks to make it visually interesting. Sound Quality Now for the fun part. Once everything was connected, I queued up some favorites—Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, classical albums, Imagine Dragons, and The Greatest Showman soundtrack. The sound quality is outstanding. The subwoofers dig deep and deliver the kind of bass you expect from a much larger system. This “somewhat small” (relatively speaking) speaker easily filled my 29’ x 17’ room with rich, full sound. No matter what I played, it handled it beautifully, and even at higher volumes it stayed clean and impressive. Conclusion For the sound quality alone, the Home 600 feels worth the price. It performs like a larger, more complex speaker setup. The biggest drawback is the loss of Alexa support—Siri is your only option, and only if you already have a HomePod on your network. The HEOS app remains easy to use overall, though one long-standing annoyance persists: albums stored on my NAS with many tracks still show up alphabetically instead of in their proper order.

The new Denon Home 600 has simply blown my mind with its sound quality. It would be easy to look at it as just another Bluetooth speaker but you would be very wrong. To begin, the design is simple yet elegant enough to fit in with any room decor. It is very solid and has a bit of weight to it. If you go just by the photos you see online of it, you will find it is a bit bigger than you would expect. It’s not overly big, but definitely bigger than I expected. The controls are few and very simple. Along the same line, the Denon HEOS app is straight forward and pretty simple. Honestly though, you really don’t need the app. Set up is very easy. Connecting to your Bluetooth source (phone, tablet, music player, ect..) is about as easy as can be. Now as for the sound. All I can say is WOW! Being that it’s a Denon I already knew the sound would be great. Everything Denon is premium. But I wasn’t ready for just how good this would sound. The design allows for amazing bass and the vocals and highs have amazing clarity. The sound has a room filling spaciousness to it. We are talking about the kind of sound that not long ago you would need a top end speaker system with multiple speakers to accomplish. I am amazed every time I use it.

I wanted to like this speaker. I really did. I'm a big fan of Denon. I've had numerous receivers and amplifiers of theirs over the years and Denon always made a quality product. So when this speaker came available I just knew I was going to love it like my previous Denon gear. Unfortunately this ended up not being the case. The speaker is a good size, but not too big to fit on a shelf. I put it on a wire shelf in my kitchen. Set up wasn't too difficult. You just download the Heos app and add your music sources. I started out with Sirius XM and added my favorite stations. This is a fairly straightforward process. My wife had more trouble than I did since she just uses Sirius XM in her car and didn't know what her password was. But she was able to connect to the speaker by accessing Sirius on her phone and then streaming to the speaker via Bluetooth. After adding Sirius XM to the homepage of the Heos app it was time to do some listening. Unfortunately the sound modes available are pretty bare bones. You can only select Auto, which uses the Atmos soundfield processing or Pure, (I believe it is), that gives a more direct audio presentation without any processing. The bad news about the Pure mode is that plays at about half the volume as the Auto mode. So even though it might be a more accurate representation of the music you are listening to, it is so anemic that I always ended up switching back to Auto. The only parameters you can adjust is Bass and Treble. But even with me turning up the Treble all the way, the high frequencies are pretty lacking. The speaker does put out a very good amount of mid bass, especially for its size. But as far as sound quality, the old saying about Bose speakers, "Got no highs, got no lows, must be Bose" unfortunately applies to this speaker. It has good midrange and good mid-bass, but does not produce good low bass or high frequencies. This is probably fine for the Tik Tok, streaming crowd, but for an audiophile such as myself this speaker doesn't quite scratch the itch. But for what I will be using it for, just a source of background music when I'm working in the kitchen, it is adequate. However the price point is a bit out of line in my opinion for what the speaker accomplishes.

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.

I have never owned a Denon product before but I have always been conscious of their brand quality and popularity. So I was excited to experience their sound with their new Home 600 Wireless Smart Speaker System. My excitement turned to disappointment pretty quickly, though. Initially, my greatest problem was with crazy equalization that overemphasized the bass with thready treble. I was finally able to resolve that problem with the HEOS app (a truly terrible app) where I found that the sound for this speaker was defaulting to a surround simulation setting that was butchering the sound for every type of music I fed to it. The sound controls allow for very simple adjustments to your “acoustic environment” by controlling bass, treble, width, and height – but all settings inserted audio characteristics that were unbearable. Sound quality between Bluetooth and aux inputs were similar to one another but I found that my Bluetooth connection was always very sketchy. My good Bluetooth headphones can connect to my phone with no degradation of quality over the expanse of my gym, but this speaker was constantly getting patchy reception from 6’ away. And I found this to be the case using three different Bluetooth sources. Finally, I found the sound to be very good at best – never excellent. I expected much better sound from Denon. But the Bluetooth problems I experienced are shockingly bad – I absolutely do not recommend!