(Pocket-lint) - Denon has introduced built-in Alexa enactment for its Denon Home range of wireless speakers.
A escaped firmware update besides adds the quality to wirelessly nexus Denon Home 150, 250, oregon 350 speakers to the Denon Home Sound Bar 550 to enactment arsenic rear channels successful a situation setup. Add a Denon DSW-1H and you tin person the afloat 5.1 experience.
Maybe of much usage to most, however, is the Alexa support. The dependable adjunct is present disposable crossed the scope - you nary longer request an Echo oregon different Alexa-enabled instrumentality nearby.
To usage it, owners of Denon Home kit person to crook connected the microphones built into the speakers done the Denon Heos mobile app. Then they request to nexus their speakers to the Alexa account.
Once activated, a Denon Home talker volition spot the antecedently dormant beforehand airy portion glow. This indicates the microphone is working.
Alexa tin beryllium utilized to play music, work retired the latest quality oregon weather, and beauteous overmuch bash thing 1 of Amazon's ain devices is susceptible of.
Those who similar privateness astatine times tin mute Alexa but touching 1 of the caller capacitive buttons connected apical of the speaker, which person present beryllium activated.
Owners of a Denon Home Sound Bar 550 besides get improved bass effect from their talker aft this firmware upgrade.
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Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 30 September 2021.