Hi, I’m Carl with Abt, and this is the Denon lineup of Heos multi-room speakers.
They’re available in two colors, white and black, and four different models: The 1, 3,
5 and 7, and in this video we’re gonna go over the similarities and differences between
them and hopefully help you determine which would work best for your applications.
We’ll start off by quickly going over what they all have in common, like high res audio
support.
Plus there’s support for several different music services like Spotify, Pandora and Deezer,
with more being added all the time.
They all have a 3.5 mm auxiliary input, USB, bluetooth, ethernet,
and, of course, Wi-Fi which is compatible on a 2.4 or 5 gigahertz network.
So you’re getting a variety of ways to connect to all of these, which you don’t get on
a lot of other brands that produce these types of multi-room speakers.
And lastly, the biggest thing they all share is the Heos app, which is well put together
and easy for anyone to get the hang of.
And that’s about it for what they all have in common.
As for the differences, we’ll start off with the design.
Now the biggest, obvious difference is that as you go up in number, they're going to go
up in size, which might factor into your installation locations.
Also, the 1 is designed to sit vertically and the 5 and 7 sit horizontally, but the
3, here, can be placed either way, which makes it’s installation a little more flexible.
The 1 and 3 also come with threaded holes for wall mounting where the 5 and 7 do not.
And the 1 has an added advantage of having a humidity resistant enclosure so if you’re
planning on installing a speaker in your bathroom you’ve got something great for that type
of application.
The 1 also has more of a graphite grill rather than the color matched grill you’ll find
on the other three speakers, which goes for both black and white, and there’s an optional
battery pack that can be added to make it truly portable which is pretty cool.
And you know what else is cool, free shipping.
And that’s what we offer here at Abt.
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Now the other major difference is with the sound, which we’ll give you a demo of a
little later on.
And just like the sizes, it gets better each time you go up in number.
The 1's got a two channel class D amplifier driving it’s dome tweeter and wide range
mid-woofer and offers crisp highs and pretty decent bass, which can be enhanced further
by adding a second Heos 1 and creating a stereo pair.
The 1 is going to be ideal for small to medium sized rooms or a bathroom.
With the 3 you get another dual channel, class D amp, powering two wide range drivers and
the enclosure is ported to help move more air.
So you’ll feel a bump in bass as well as a little more eveness to the overall tone,
but no option to create a stereo pair, although you don’t really need to with this one.
The 3's also gonna be good for smaller to medium sized rooms, but this one’s not designed
to handle humidity like the 1, so you won’t be able to put this, or any of the others
for that matter, into a bathroom application.
Now moving up to the 5 you’re taking a big step up in sound.
Now you’re getting 4 individual class D amplifiers driving two tweeters and two mid-range
woofers along with a passive radiator so bass is gonna get a very noticeable bump along
with much more defined highs and mids.
The 5 is gonna work best in medium to large rooms, but hey, a small rooms not a bad place
for this one either.
And that’s gonna bring us to the 7, the largest of the 4.
Now you get 5 class D amps driving two tweeters, two mid range woofers, and an active sub,
all of which add up to some incredible separation along with bass that’s way bigger than you
might be expecting and very accurate highs and mids.
As you may have guessed, this ones designed for large spaces, but again, if you’re looking
for the best sound available and you have a smaller room, don’t be shy about checking
out the 7.
Now, here’s a sound demo of these all back to back……..
Music Playing on the Heos 1
Music Playing on the Heos 3
Music Playing on the Heos 5
Music Playing on the Heos 7
I understand that people are listening to these through whatever speakers or headphones
you have available, but hopefully you’re able to hear some of the differences I just
talked about.
That's the line-up of Denon Heos Multi-Room speakers.
What do you think?
Do any of these fit your applications?
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