Denon Home 550 Wireless Smart Soundbar for TV with
$649.00
Price: $649.00
(as of Feb 23, 2025 09:41:07 UTC – Details)
Enjoy theater grade balanced audio with Denon Home Sound Bar 550 – a 4.0 channel sound bar that comes in a compact 26” footprint but delivers powerful, room-filling audio to elevate your television and music. It supports 4K video quality, Dolby Vision and HDR for an extraordinary cinematic experience on your 4K TV with breathtakingly beautiful visuals and detailed imaging. Stream the music of your choice from popular streaming services using built-in HEOS and access your own digital library with ease. Built-in Amazon Alexa allows you to adjust volume, audio modes and inputs with just simple voice commands, and allows complete hands-free control of your home system and appliances via major Home Automation Systems like Control4, Crestron and others. Build a complete multi-room ecosystem by pairing the sound bar with Denon Home 150, 250 or 350 wireless speakers and Denon Home Subwoofer, or connect additional HEOS built-in speakers for a synchronized multi-room listening experience. The quick-set up guide and all the necessary cables allows for a super easy set up in minutes so that you can enjoy your movies and music instantly.
POWERFUL AUDIO FROM A COMPACT SOUND BAR – Upgrade your movie & music experience with the 4.0 driver configuration in its slim 26″ design that saves space and delivers balanced sound everywhere
IMPACTFUL 3D SURROUND SOUND – With the combined effect of premium .75″ soft dome tweeters, 2.15″ full-range drivers, and 2.15″ x 3.5″ passive radiators, the sound bar delivers immersive 3D surround sound in hi-res audio formats like Dolby Atmos and DTS:X
EXTRAORDINARY VISUALS – Enjoy an extraordinary cinematic experience on your 4K HD TV with HRD10 and Dolby Vision support for stunning, nuanced contrast and detailed imaging with brilliant colors and depth that bring your songs and movies to life
WIRELESS WHOLE HOME AUDIO – With HEOS built-in, access millions of hi-res audio tracks from popular streaming services like Spotify, Pandora, TuneIn, TIDAL, and and play them on all your Denon connected devices
EFFORTLESS VOICE CONTROL – Using voice commands, change tracks, adjust volume, switch inputs, audio levels and modes with Alexa built-in and enjoy seamless control over Smart Home Automation Systems like Control4, Crestron and other major service. *This feature will be added with a software update in Spring 2021.
BUILD A WIRELESS HOME THEATER SETUP – Pair optional Denon Home 150, 250, or 350 speakers to create a seamless Denon Home ecosystem or connect any HEOS speaker for a multi-room HEOS synchronized audio system. For additional bass, add the Denon Home Subwoofer
DKS –
Review which said can only play music is on crack.
This soundbar is devastating, unless you really want deep low end you don’t need sub. I’m in a apt these days, got bar and was floored with quality/bass response. Accuracy of range/tonal response is admirable.Then found pair of 150 as surrounds on sale also after Christmas. Setup was quick, painless and straightforward and worked as advertised. Have control of levels as well as crossover Freq of surrounds.The clarity left my old $140 Vizio soundbar in the dust. Of course all said and done I’ve got almost $700 in this front/rears system and it’s worth every cent. 550 bar as front, pair of 150 as surrounds.
sjp3003 –
Excellent High Quality Soundbar
I bought this and a corresponding Denon Subwoofer to upgrade a disappointing low end unit from another manufacturer. This sound is among the best as far as soundbars go. Finish is high quality and setup was easy with our LG TV. It also integrates well with our Heos system which is distributed throughout our home. Highly recommended.
jbe3 –
Pleased so far
Easy setup and tie to other HEOS components. Would rate four or five star but remote did not work.Update 3/6 – Without any inquiry from me Denon support contacted me about remote not working. I looked at it again discovered the malfunction was due to me. Thanks, Denon support for following up.Changed from 2 stars to 4 stars
Hope4ncsu –
You don’t even need a reciever
This sound bar works great. Get 2 150 Denon speakers and a subwoofer with this and you have complete and total surround sound. Get a couple more 150s and you have music connected all over the house!
David Ferguson –
Not Reliable
I have owned this soundbar for 7 weeks. It has been nothing but trouble the entire time. I should have known when I had to spend the first two days owning one with their support team just to get it to work at all. That took them over 12 hours to get it going. I should have stopped right there and sent it back. But I didn’t. Over the course of the last 7 weeks I have spent over 25 hours on the phone with their help desk with issue after issue after issue. Now it’s too late to get a refund and I am stuck with a 700.00 soundbar that doesn’t work. DO NOT BUY ONE!!
Tim –
Sounds great…when it works.
This is the best sounding soundbar I’ve used, particularly when paired with a Denon Home Sub. Very clear dialog. Setup is relatively easy, mostly done on the HEOS app. Settings are very configurable compared to other multi room audio system soundbars.Unfortunately, there is often a 5 second delay when starting audio from a source (tolerable) and is randomly cuts out for 2 or more seconds during playback. Sometimes it won’t happen for days, sometimes several times one night. This has nothing to do with network (which I troubleshooted anyway) it happens from the TV directly connected via ARC HDMI. After several rounds with tech support, they conceded it might be best to return it.
Great –
Great
Thanks
matthew –
Surprisingly unimpressive
A small compact solution with little technical documentation and even worse setup user experience.I generally enjoy Denon products being a massive fan of the AVR lineup of premium home theater receivers. I thought when I needed a better solution for my wall mounted 4K TV in the master bedroom this would be a knockout choice. Pricey, sure, but Denon!First off the bar is very small, and normally that would be a good thing but the soundstage for general TV use is very narrow. Dialog still becomes muffled even with the Dialog Enhancer enabled. Bass is present however, the most noticeable upgrade from my premium Samsung built in speakers.Trying to set this up with that Samsung involved utilizing the HDMI 4 ARC-equipped TV port. At first I could get no sound from it. Most documentation is lacking many technical details, but for me ensuring HDMI-CEC (What Samsung called “Anynet+”) was done in advance. I chose to use Ethernet for networking which most documentation lacks to explain the setup process for. Ultimately through great frustration I came to realize that the bar they shipped me in July 2022 was EXTREMELY out of date with its firmware. Firmware is updated via the HeOS mobile application. Thankfully you do NOT need to set up some stupid account to use the app to set up or configure the bar—points added for straightforward requirements. The firmware takes a… very… long… time… to… update. I counted 25 minutes. After a while the app lost contact with the bar and assumed it was set up. It wasn’t. While the light flashes orange/yellow the firmware is still being updated DO NOT UNPLUG IT. Ignore the app. Wait for the bar to show blue. Just…wait. Once all the firmware updates are applied run through the device setup process again and you should be in business. The volume had to be clicked up about 15 times to finally hear something.Once you’ve hit this point congrats! You’ve done what Denon couldn’t bother to explain clearly. Now I’ll post my criticisms….Some of these may be due to the TV behavior, so take with a grain of salt… but every time the bar turns on, my TV flips to the input that ARC is active on which obviously doesn’t show any content, as it’s been dedicated to sending audio data to the sound bar. Annoyingly I think this is my reward for spending $2500 on a premium Samsung TV. As is the annoyance of having no idea what the volume level is set to on the bar; pressing up or down volume shows a brief Vol + or Vol – and that’s it. If I connect Bluetooth headphones to the TV at night the TV will shut off the bar connection and blast the TV speakers if the TV volume was left up. Most of these gripes are due to poor TV user experience and likely not the sound bar.The sound bar itself seems to be fairly good but not the massive improvement I was hoping for over the built in speakers. For $600 MSRP I would have expected a much better audio experience from a company like Denon. I don’t know if I should blame it on HeOS, but it’s just underwhelming.Mounting the bar is a bit silly as well. Instead of a nice bracket to mount to you’re given picture-hanging holes. What absolute cheap out on such a premium product. It makes mounting the bar unnecessarily clonky and in most cases will cause it to sag towards the floor. A shelf is a better option if it fits with your decor. A TV wall mount with universal sound bar mounting is even better.Overall I give this product a “meh” out of 10. Not worth the price. If it was $199 I would have felt better.
Gerardo U –
Primero, el producto es muy bueno, me sorprendió la facilidad de uso, en dos pasos ya estaba funcionando, el diseño es hermoso y de calidad, el sonido también es muy bueno sobre todo para películas, se puede manejar con su propio control remoto o desde el celular, tiene alexa y bueno, Denon es una gran marca, aunque no incluye un subwoofer externo, los grabes se escuchan bastante bien, la conectividad es interesante pues se puede usar hdmi, fibra óptica (toslink), o hasta conexión auxiliar por Philips de 3.5″ , desde la app se pueden manejar desde amazon music hasta tu propia música del celular o de una memoria usb, y con la compatibilidad de HEOS se pueden conectar varias bocinas sincronizadas (inclusive como surround), de la serie Denon home, obviamente también incluye bluetooth.Magnífico producto