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Devices => Sound Cards, DAC's, Receivers, Speakers, and Headphones => Topic started by: Bill Kearney on October 30, 2014, 08:28:53 pm
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If you want better sound, check out the new Denon Heos units. That and apparently they've got a much more open approach to 3rd party control.
I'm leaning toward replacing my Sonos units with them. If just to get out from under Sonos' ridiculous software updates.
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My concern with Heos would be that it seems to be app-based, focused on using streaming services without even offering a PC client, so I don't know how well it might work with Media Center, if you can play to it from MC at all.
This is the biggest issue I've had with MC really. It works great if you are playing to devices physically connected to the computer - especially if you're doing things like splitting a 7.1 sound device into 4 stereo zones, but it doesn't do sync well, and I've never been able to get it working well with wireless devices.
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I'm no expert on the Heos, just tossing out that it's out there now. That and Denon's been pretty good about providing 3rd party interface info for their gear.
As for syncing it's no small challenge, even with directly connected gear. The Denon units are capable of joining zones. Don't know how well that would tie into a MC setup.
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My concern with Heos would be that it seems to be app-based, focused on using streaming services without even offering a PC client, so I don't know how well it might work with Media Center, if you can play to it from MC at all.
It plays from DLNA servers, but I don't know if it can act as a renderer.
This system actually looks like a Sonos beater IMO if it can grab everyone's attention! (It has Android 2+ and iOS 5+ apps too - yes, an app in this day and age that has been upgraded to work with iOS8 but is STILL compatible with IOS5 and iPad Gen1s and iPod touch 3/4, which can be obtained at very reasonable prices second-hand now - who would have thought such a thing, surely remote apps are really complicated things that require powerful graphical engines and processing that can only work with the very latest OS's and devices??). I also like the fact that it can use your existing wired network. It's very expensive though, especially to kit out your whole home, and that's the concern I have about buying into any expensive proprietary system that you rely on, that things break or become unavailable or stop being updated...
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Yes, the system is a DMR so can be controlled from MC on a PC. http://denon.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2412 (http://denon.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2412) Although I think the description is a little ambiguous and I don't know if what they're describing should be a DMP rather than a separate DMC and DMR.
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If you want better sound, check out the new Denon Heos units. That and apparently they've got a much more open approach to 3rd party control.
I'm leaning toward replacing my Sonos units with them. If just to get out from under Sonos' ridiculous software updates.
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