Denon SCN10 Speakers, Two-Way HiFi Speakers for TV Sound System, 2x 65W, Compatible with Receivers & Amplifiers, Elegant Design - Black SCN10BKEM

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Awarded Excellence: 🏆 Honored as Australia’s Hi-Fi Retailer of the Year in 2021 and 2022, and hailed as Queensland’s Best Hi-Fi Retailer. Back in the elder days of hi-fi, there was an ongoing war of words and, indeed, a philosophical chasm between two breeds of music-making equipment. But this is mini-system sound quality, and a significant uptick in sound quality will be possible if you're prepared to ditch DAB and the CD player.

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There are various ways to tweak the sound quality, most easily accessed from the HEOS ‘now playing’ screen. With capabilities that transcend the confines of ordinary speakers, the Denon SCN10s stand as a testament to Denon's commitment to quality and unwavering passion for sound.

We very much appreciate that HEOS is properly localised and doesn’t show services which aren’t available to Australia (as do most rivals, to the ongoing irritation of users). We do provide installation options for built-in appliances providing it is simply a case of fitting the appliance and furniture doors. From envisioning a serene evening with your favourite album to setting up the ultimate cinematic audio for movie nights.

Denon SCN10 Speakers, Two-Way HiFi Speakers for TV Sound

The speakers came in the first box, the central electronics in the second, along with speaker cables of two-metre length – if you need the speakers further apart, bring your own. Later, as CD players replaced turntables, these midi systems shrank down into mini systems and ultimately micro systems (and even, for a while, micro separates), until the whole all-in-one genre was eventually supplanted by the one-box wireless music systems of today. Founded in 1910, Denon was both the first record company in Japan and the first audio company in Japan. We began our listening with internet radio, which uses the excellent TuneIn platform, which in the UK has been hobbled by record company legal action so that it can’t play anything other than UK stations, but which is, as yet, free of such interference here in Australia. Not only can you select an input from the HEOS app’s ‘Denon CEOL’ pane, there’s a separate ‘inputs’ option.The other envelopes of qualification on that power figure are that it’s measured at 1kHz only, and with an allowed THD of 0. When it comes to performance, one of the things that most surprised us about the Denon CEOL-N10 is how easy it is to use. There’s not the full open soundstaging of full-sized hi-fi separates with a higher-specification amplifier, but there are plenty of hi-fi attributes delivered here, and definite musicality. While the profusion of settings might seem a little overwhelming if you go for a browse, we were impressed that the defaults were all sensibly chosen, so that anyone simply turning on and playing will get pretty much as good as the Denon can give.

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To use Spotify, the HEOS app simply opens your normal Spotify app, and you select the Denon as the playback device. Equally enjoyably the higher frequencies were never sibilant, and the bass, while sometimes dominant, never closed down the treble in the process.A feature-loaded Hi-Fi setup with a 2-way loudspeaker setup, bass reflex port, a frequency response of 50 Hz - 20 kHz, 6 ohms impedance, and a power handling capacity of up to 120 watts at peak.

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There are some rather swish touch buttons on the scratch-resistant top of the unit itself; these keys are back-illuminated and light up when you touch them, though not enough to help in a darkened room since the labels don’t illuminate, so you can’t tell what you should press. Nestled within these SCN10 speakers are powerful beasts - a 12cm high-quality midrange/bass driver paired with a 3cm high definition soft dome tweeter.While there’s full software control within the app, we were pleased to find that the volume rockers on the side of our iPhone also controlled the Denon’s volume when the HEOS app was open (though not from a lock screen), which is surprisingly often not the case, given this is the easiest and most intuitive method of volume control when using an app. There’s no AM here, but all AM stations are almost certainly available at better quality via internet or DAB+ radio. Should you wish to contact the manufacturer direct for any reason, we have also provided this information within the associated brand sections. This powerful mini Hi-Fi system is brimming with modern features to make your life easier and give you more access to your music.