Denon Heos 5 Speaker Discounted by $200 as Amazon Deal of Day

Denon’s Heos 5 wireless speaker was an Amazon Deal of the Day Tuesday at $199, down from $399. The speaker rated 3.5 stars out of 5 from 27 user reviews. Reviewers were generally effusive over the system's sound quality but slammed the Heos app as being difficult to set up and execute. One user, who chose the Heos over a Definitive Technology’s Play-Fi speaker on sound quality, gave the Denon speaker a single star because of the inability to stream music from existing playlists on Android phones and tablets. The reviewer called that oversight a “dealbreaker.” Denon responded that it forwarded the review to its app development team, which said it could add playback of local playlists in a future update. “Based on your feedback this function will be added for Android users,” Denon said. The company also said it is “working diligently to improve the user experience” with the Heos app and that with each software update, Denon hears “less and less complaints about stability." Since the review posted, the company released two updates "which should put almost all stability issues to rest,” it said. Denon offered to troubleshoot with the customer by phone if problems persist. Sometimes Wi-Fi connectivity problems in a network can appear to be a problem with the app or speaker, the company said.