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Denon HEOS Link HS2 (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi)
436.– CHF

Denon HEOS Link HS2

Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

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4 reviews

  • djaudi

    3 years ago

    Excellent product

    Pro

    • Perfect as a network player on any amplifier
    • High definition file playback (24bit/192khz)
    • Connections
    • Sound
    • Manufacturing quality
    • Reading stability
    • Automatic standby
    • HEOS App

    Contra

    • No
  • sascha.fr

    5 years ago

    Who has the necessary change and is technically savvy. can buy the link confidently. Especially as a player of the existing (analog) sources.

    The device meets my expectations to a large extent, but I also know exactly what I have let myself in for.

    If you understand the concept of the HEOS system, you can do a lot with it and has a real added value.

    The best     scenario is to loop the Link into an AVR that drives at least two zones. So connect the input of the Link with the output of the 2nd zone and the output of the Link with e.g. AUX input of the receiver.
    Now the desired source (e.g. the CD player) runs on zone 2 and can be forwarded to the other HEOS speakers. If you now want to listen to the CD in the main zone as well, do NOT select CD but the input to which the OUTPUT of the link is connected (AUX input).

    Of course you have to select the source (Line-In) at the Link so that the Zone2 output is also tapped from the Link and forwarded.
    The whole thing runs then also synchronously (have tested it!).
    The disadvantage is that the link is active until you explicitly stop the source (Line In).
    So the link does not go into standby when no more music comes.
    If you give directly Spotify etc. on the link, it goes after 20 minutes in standby after the stream stopped.

    You just have to know that - if you take the link as a "master" and still 7 other "speakers" as a group hang on, they also remain active, because the stream from the line in the link is still active!
    (But... who still listens to CD today ;-))

    In this scenario, you save the purchase of a HEOS-compatible receiver.

    As for the controllability of the receiver from the HEOS system, it is indeed the case that only the Denon/Marantz products are comfortably controllable (select input, volume etc....) but looping in the 2nd zone works with any receiver.
    It would even work with any amplifier that has a tape connector with tape monitor button. But the parts are getting rare ;-)

    What bothers me about the product is the high price. Probably this is due to the license costs for all the streaming providers??? Most of the software is open source and the electronics are not that great.
    Furthermore, I am bothered by the relatively high power consumption in idle mode (not standby/QSM!) Felt (!) - not measured should be between 10 and 20 watts. Felt because all HEOS devices (I have 5 x HEOS1, 1 x AMP and 4 x Link) are noticeably warm in operation. Especially the AMP heats up already when doing nothing cozy - and that despite installed switching output stages...
    As soon as the devices go into QSM, they are significantly cooler.
    In the app, a few speakers disappear from time to time and then reappear.... eventually. Wherever possible, hang the parts on the LAN cable (in a pinch with a power LAN adapter) This simply runs more stable than via WLAN. The group operation itself is otherwise very stable, even over days!     

    Pro

    • Operational stability
    • Bandwidth consumption
    • Usability

    Contra

    • Expensive (especially the link / amp!)
    • Power consumption in idle mode (not standby)
    • From time to time components disappear from the HEOS app
  • Anonymous

    7 years ago •
    purchased this product

    Can do better

    Good product offers many possibilities.

    Pro

    • the bluetooth
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