Denon Soundbars

Japanese maker whose roots go back to 1910. Pioneered professional PCM digital recording in the 1970s and now dominates AV receivers.

Founded: 1910 (founded as Nippon Chikuonki Shokai; Denon comes from Denki Onkyo)
Founder: Frederick Whitney Horn
Headquarters: Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Manufacturing: Japan and Asia
Parent company: Harman International (Samsung)
How to buy: Sold through specialist hi-fi dealers and online retailers
Known for: AV receivers, professional digital recording, DL-103 moving-coil cartridge

Currently, we have 2 Denon amplifiers in our database. Below you can find the list with their main specs and links to their review pages.

Denon Soundbar

	Model	Watts RMS (8Ω)	Amp Class	DAC	Phono
	Denon DHT-S517	-	-	-	-
	Denon Home Sound Bar 550	-	-	-	-

About Denon

Denon traces to 1910 and the earliest Japanese record industry - it made discs and recording equipment long before it made hi-fi. In 1972 it put the first commercial PCM digital recorder into use for classical sessions, more than a decade before the compact disc reached shops, so a number of early CD releases were Denon digital masters. The DL-103 moving-coil cartridge, designed for NHK broadcast use in 1962, is still made and still sold.

An American entrepreneur working in Japan who started the country early record business.

The DL-103 is one of very few audio products with an unbroken production run of over sixty years, and it exists because a national broadcaster needed a rugged cartridge, not because a hi-fi company wanted a halo product.

Merged with Marantz to form D and M Holdings, which became Sound United, sold to Masimo in 2022 and to Harman in 2025.

Notable models: DL-103 cartridge, AVR-X receivers, PMA integrated amplifiers.

Official Denon website

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