OPINION : This hebdomad I attended an event about Denon Home that actually segue into an explainer for Denon ’s HEOS cyclosis servicing .
Anyone and everyone operating within the hi - fi realm will have noticed the growing converging of machine via streaming apps . ArguablySonosgot there first and has set the standard to reach , its app is rightly the enviousness of its competitor because it just work .
And when something works as seamlessly as the app , it ’s like conjuring trick ; and when others seek to achieve the same and it does n’t work , it feels uncomfortable like a parlour trick gone wrong .
That was the upshot with Denon ’s HEOS when it first set up , a dotty endeavor that did n’t pull up stakes a skilful first impression . But that was years ago , and this is now , and HEOS is in a much better anatomy joining the likes of BluOS , Google Home andAirPlay 2as pour option .
The master emphasis at the effect was the effort in merge bequest , traditional hi - fi with the life-style , casual consultation interested in wireless Speaker and such , and the fact that you could unify these two still somewhat disparate orbit through wireless connectivity . You ’d think this is an obvious thing that ’s already been achieved , but think about it some more , that convergence has n’t quite fall out .
AirPlay concenter on Apple equipment , iPhones , iPads andApple TVs , and then third - party poppycock comes in like wireless speaker and TVs . BluOS is more for audiophiles : music streamers , high - end wireless speaker system , loudspeakers with mellow - res audio support . Sonos is essentially wireless speakers and , more latterly , soundbars . Google Home is smart automation that also hap to patronize speakers .
cogitate about it and there ’s no one option that covers traditional and casual , hi - fi and smart ; you call for a mix of the options cite above to create that type of interconnected system ; perhaps a combination of BluOS and AirPlay or HEOS and Google Home .
With an increasing focussing on connectivity in recent years , I ’d say the message imparted has n’t been the right one . You always see those diagrams of cutaway model house , speakers sprinkle around the menage with medicine play from them , but I do n’t recall I ’ve ever amount across a set - up like that or a someone who has that set - up in their abode . It ’d be tricky ( and ultimately pointless ) to do that in a London flat , let ’s say .
Those diagrams number across as an easy and round-eyed way of life to explain the idea of multi - room , but also make it seem like a far - fetched concept . Why would I want someone randomly play their music on the utterer in my room and vice versa ? It might be bang-up for house parties but how often does that happen .
So the construct of multi - room or what it should be , which is the less aphrodisiac vocalize interconnected machine , ought to be about bridge diverse product and unifying them into a whole . Turntablesplaying to wireless loudspeaker via a music streamer , a 5.1 pic scheme that can scale down to a 2.0 music organization as the Denon HEOS explainer was stimulate at . That comes across as a more palatable theme to me .
I call up whatmulti - roomwants to force is the approximation that we listen to medicine in a variety of ways , when really , we all listen to music in specific mode , on few machine and only want to exert that quality across whatever we listen to . Headphones and smartphones go together , laptops and hi - fi speakers etc , and interlink devices offer a means of extending it to one more gimmick in the string . The idea of multiple devices around the habitation all speaking to each other vocalise bully , but I ’m not convinced that ’s how we listen to music .
So that ’s the steering I ’m hoping this interconnected era is heading towards . Less about the jazzy bit of many devices you could connect and more about thewhich typeof devices you may connect . Although I ’ll accept that a wall of 16Denon Home 350speakers grouped together and blaring Billie Eilish at you is passably impressive .
