Denon Home 150

Enjoyably bombastic ; Big sound ; Smart looks ; Now with native voice support

Sonos One sounds better balanced ; More expensive than Sonos

For those who want their smart speakers to be truly smart, the Home 150 now packs the promised support for Alexa. Sonos still edges the Denon overall, but the Home 150 is a wireless speaker that pushes out out a fun performance good.

Solid audio performance with rich lows and crisp highs ; Can stream high-resolution audio

Alexa voice features aren't active yet ; Expensive ; DSP changes sound signatures in obvious ways

The Denon Home 150 is an interesting attempt at a hi-fi smart speaker, but it satifies neither ambition.

In the end, I don’t think you’ll go wrong either way; my advice is to look closely at the respective feature sets and consider which platform you’d rather invest in. Are you a Google Assistant fan, or do you like Apple’s style of hardware and...

If you're not already tied into Sonos' ecosystem, the Denon Home 150 is the best entry-level smart speaker I've come across for getting into the HEOS ecosystem, and comes highly recommended.

The Denon Home 150 takes over where the company’s Heos line of multiroom speakers left off. Not only does it feature more traditional styling than its predecessor—some models in the Heos line resembled a high-end handbag—but it also provides satisfying...

It sounds like a much larger speaker. USB port for playing files. HD audio.

Voice control is missing for the time being. The app is outdated. No digital inputs.

Denon Home 150 is a small and relatively inexpensive speaker, which is likely to be purchased in bulk and placed around the house by owners of HEOS multi-room systems. There it does a nice job, and it does not hurt that the Home 150 is actually quite...