This is a unique form of silence that prevails in a house before the commencement of music. It is a vacant, unborn thing-the silence of four walls waiting to be filled to a house. When we consider interior design, we usually think of velvet or the wood of oak, or how a floor lamp illuminates a carpet in the shape of a golden pool. But every one who has ever felt himself raised on his hair whenever the cello solo was to be heard, must be persuaded that sound is the strongest piece of furniture we possess. It covers the areas which a sofa cannot cover.
As the Japanese audio giant unveils its Denon Home 200, 400 and 600, it is not releasing a new range of wirelessly powered speakers. They are offering a change of lifestyle. The series is a breakaway of the so-called gadgetry and a transition to atmosphere, with a century of high-fidelity heritage and an intentionally soft and deliberate design language of a linen curtain.
The Architecture of Emotion: Architecture That Fades Away
Previously, the high-end audio was something that you needed to set up your room with. You had the black boxes, and the great cables, and the great towers that had to be in the spot light. Denon Home series reverses it all.
When you touch the 200, 400 and 600 the first thing you feel is that they are tactile. These speakers are touchable as they are encased in an elegant wrap-around fabric that resists dust particles and splash of water. The uppermost panels have an interface of proximity sensing, the lights turn on as you move closer to the panel and disappear as you move back. It is a little human element that helps the technology to seem less like a computer and more like an attentive aspect of your surroundings.
- The Denon Home 200: The mini sentinel. There is no better place than the sunny kitchen nook or the bedside table. It does not scream to get noticed but it has a sound that weighs more than itself.
- The Denon Home 400: The mid sized wonder. The center of the living room, this is good enough to support a podcast when you are cooking or a high resolution jazz stream at a dinner party.
- The Denon Home 600: The flagship. This is in case it is not the background, but it is the event of the music.
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HEOS Integration: The Invisible Thread
The enchantedness of the contemporary household is connectivity, yet far too frequently, that connectivity is accompanied by a portion of exasperation dropped connections, sluggish apps, and complicated installations. The HEOS Built-in technology of Denon is the thread that connects these speakers.
Humanizing technology implies making it easy. The 200, 400 and 600 get you unattached to a single room. You may turn on a playlist in the foyer when you first enter the door and it would follow you into the kitchen. With a pair of Home 200s grouped as rear surrounds, you can experience a breath-taking cinematic experience in the den with your partner, who is viewing a movie on a Denon soundbar.
A Century of Craft in Every Note
The fact that Denon has been at it more than 110 years is readily forgotten. The 200, the 400, and the 600 have the ghost in the machine as their legacy. Most of the smart speakers are produced by software companies that are attempting to understand audio, whereas these are an audio company that has perfected software.
Both models have specially designed drivers and Class-D high power amplification. In the case of the Denon Home 600, specifically, it applies an elaborate stereo setup that helps to generate a soundstage that is far broader than the actual speaker. It employs the walls in your domestic as canvases, and bouncing frequencies so accurate that you might have thought there were musicians behind the curtains.
