Name: Denon HEOS 3 High Resolution Wireless Speaker, Dual Full-Range Drivers, Series 2, Single, Black
Brand: Denon
SKU: DEHEOS3HS2
Price: 299.00 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 3.8 (83 reviews)

Denon HEOS 3 High Resolution Wireless Speaker, Dual Full-Range Drivers, Series 2, Single, Black

Denon HEOS 3

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Denon HEOS 3 High Resolution Wireless Speaker, Series 2, Single, Black

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Denon HEOS 3 

Buy: Denon HEOS 3 High Resolution Wireless Speaker, Dual Full-Range Drivers, Series 2, Single, Black

We've been running them for 2 years now. They have been unbelievably flawless now for several months. The last update really fixed a lot of things. On the app, they brought back the master volume. Very key for whole house audio. We run 2 HEOS 7s, 10 HEOS 3s, and 2 HEOS 1s. All of them over wi-fi 2.4GHz and as a single zone. However, we do have our house wired with four high capacity prosumer/commercial grade Wi-fi APs. When we had only one home router (e.g., $200+ ASUS), the connection was iffy and the router would burn out after a couple of months. If HEOS would produce a real subwoofer, I'd add one or two of them to the rooms we hang out most in, but until then. It's still a nice way to live.

Sound is excellent functionality of app is spot on

Setup for the speaker and app were straight forwardOnce I figured out enough to get sound, the speaker sounds great in a medium sized room - excellent sound qualityApp UI and navigation is terrible.  The choices in a given menu are very restrictive and working your way through various menus to change configurations is simply guesswork.  Read the reviews, knew the app was going to be a nightmare and it is.  Still deciding whether to go Heos or Sonos.  Have always enjoyed the sound quality from Denon.  Wish they would just hire some competent app developers

Great for medium / small rooms

I already had a HEOS sound bar for my living room and a HEOS 1 for our master bathroom (since it's water resistant. We needed another speaker for our shared home office at Home. It's bigger than the bathroom, but smaller than the living room, so the HEOS 3 was the perfect size and power for that room.

Amazing sound from a beautiful little package!

I bought a $2000 denon Av receiver and thought that the heos 3 would be a wireless speaker to play CD music. No such luck it will only play subscription music through wifi. Useless so I returned it. Too bad I couldn't return the receiver, by the time I figured out how bad no mi it was it was too late to return it. Beware of Denon.

Piece of junk

Could not get the speaker to pair to with wireless. Using Ubiquiti name brand wifi. Returned first unit and tried a replacement, still did not work.

Never could get it to work

Great support  for my Music apps Tidal and easy link with my NAS.

Great sound and user friendly

I was so pleased with my first HEOS purchase that I now have 2 HEOS 3's, a HEOS 7, a HEOS amp, and 3 HEOS 1's. If you are looking to fill your home with sound and not with wires, give HEOS a listen.

Very pleased

In was amazed by the performance of this speaker. Perfect for each room of your house. I have found that they work flawlessly with Echo Dot and my AVR receiver that is WiFi capable.

Amazing bass, great sound!

It is not possible to interface with Podcast Addict, a very popular smartphone app. I contacted the developer and he said that Heos has a proprietary interface and it will be difficult to have the app communicate with the speaker.

Second, the 3.5 mm plug cannot be used to play directly from a smart phone.

Does not interface with popular Podcast apps

HEOS works great. Have the Denon 3400 amp and 3 HEOS speakers.  Fills my house with sound.  Works great.  App is easy to use and has lots of options.  I love the favorites you can mix from radio, iTunes, SiriusXM etc.

Fill my house with wireless sounds.

I like the sound of HEOS but there are too many snags with trying to keep it working. Updates here and there keep it from being connected consistently

Good sound but too many updates

Exactly what I was looking for and extremely pleased with how it performs. I have been looking at the options for multi room listening for about two years. Decided not to bother with wires as I liked the flexibility the wireless system would offer over time. I ultimately decided on the HEOS speakers because of the Bluetooth option and the ability to play hi res files. The sound is very full for the room each speaker is placed. Have not been disappointed in the least.

Absolutely Great Speaker

The Heos 3 is the best seller of the line! So small with a huge sound. Very impressive when you pair it up with another one and their Heos Sub for a killer self amplified 2.1 system!

Practical, Innovative and Affordable

We purchased a Denon Heos AVR and bought 2 HEOS 3 HS1's for the surround speakers as running wires was not an option. The pairing was easy, and they sound great. My wife un-pairs them them when we're not watching movies and takes them around the house to listen to her music while doing her thing.

Love These

Sure i will recommend this product to all my friends, specially those who have  already Heos enabled AVR Receiver.

value for money

Setting up the blue tooth took over 1 hour and then it required a premium app just to play the music.  I also bought a JBL speaker just to compare.  The JBL linked to my phone right away and allowed more freedom with music aps.

Never even heard the speaker

Added two of these speakers to our existing HEOS system, now spanning 4 rooms throughout our home, and couldn't be happier with our decision.  Great product, thanks Denon!

Great speaker in a small, stylish package.

Fairly easy to set up.  The APP is easy to use.  Sounds is decent, but definitely way way below my Denon receiver with NHT bookshelf speakers.

Heos 3 Thoughts

Now that I have 4 of these throughout house and garage, tinty unbalanced sound is thing of past.

Sounds super

Love my Denon receiver and speaker. However, the HEOS app crashes and locks up in the middle of a playlist. Very annoying. Speaker and sound are fantastic otherwise.

HEOS app

Just great sound for wireless speaker. Placed in family room / kitchen bar and it covers both rooms

Outstanding performance for a wireless speaker

i replaced a 8 year old onkyo system with a new denon and heos 3 speaker  and i love ir

the sound quality is great

I wanted to expand wireless sound thru out our home. I saw reviews on the Heos and having owned other Heos speakers, this purchase was a no brainer.

Great sound in a small package.

I have a Heos 5 and a Heos 3 in my great room (medium size room).   The 5 is in the front and 3 in the back.   Nice combo.   Good mid range and highs.   I listen to mainly instrumental.   The sound is good and pleasant.   Now, I can get better sound with a wired system.   But, Heos shines in this area.   Plug it in and control from the I-Phone.   Select the music and it's just that simple.   No amplifier and mountains of connections and wires.   Very convient.   Besides, my spouse does like the volume high.   It fits our lifestyle!

Clear crisp sound with convenient simplicity.

Having had the same setup for 20+ yrs it has been a pleasant adventure exploring all the new setups. I started with another product and moved up to Denon. Support has been well above par.

I'm glad Denon is my first journey into new sound

Pro: sound is good, we are very pleased. A lot of choices for were to get music from.

Con: The app needs work.
  A good deal of the audio sources are subscriber based, and they are all optional. Have a way to customize this screen to reduce clutter making it easier to find the music or source you are looking for.
  Moving audio for the Heos to the receiver didn't work they way it did in the video, the receiver started playing the previous started queue. And the Heos kept playing.  transitioning between rooms should work, or be easier.  Also the volume should be normalized between the rooms, so when in transition it is seamless.

An added feature that should be considered is an Alarm,  tunein android app includes this but not the tunein source in the heos app.  This would be a killer feature and possibly allow me to replace my wifes bose stereo.

Not sleek enough, shape is a little awkward according to my wife, the home designer.

Great Sound ... but

Love my heos3 hs2. The one downfall is not being able to use a pair as rear surrounds for my avrs930h. Would be a perfect 5 stars then. Why would you put the heos badge on the receiver if this was not possible? Hopefully this can be fixed with a future firmware update

One caveat

Very good sound but the interface is clumsy and it doesn't work with Apple Music. Almost a deal breaker but at least I can use it in my office with a cable.

Sounds good but clumsy interface

I enjoy music around house.  Great sound easy to use.

I love it!!

I have been living with the Heos 3 for a few weeks now and am overall impressed. The sound quality is excellent. The variety of streaming services is more than sufficient. The things I've had issues with include:

The blue LED on the unit cannot be turned off. In a bedroom at night, even at its' lowest setting, it is too bright.

The unit lacks a sleep timer. #1 request here, Denon.

For the life of me I cannot get Napster to connect to my account. I've got one of the old Rhapsody accounts that use a screen name instead of an email address and I think that is the problem. I haven't tried to solve it on the Napster end by changing my screen name to an email. 

The Android app will occasionally not connect. This generally happens after the phone has gone to sleep while the app was open. When I wake it back up it tells me it cannot find a Heos player on my network and to check my network connection. Stopping the app and relaunching always fixes it.

It would be really nice to have a PC app as I am often on the computer and it would be quite convenient.

My opinion is that the sound quality is better than Sonos, and while the user experience needs work it is quite good. There are still bugs, but hopefully Denon is working on them. The speed at which the software is updated will be the real determiner whether Heos can compete with Sonos.