Introduction
In a perfect world, I'd always recommend full-range loudspeakers—and plenty of ‘em—for a home theater and audio system. More air makes better sound. But the world wasn't built around the needs of audio/video equipment. You'll get a better picture from a CRT rear-projection TV than you will from a glitzy plasma or LCD, but the people have spoken and the winner is style over substance. TVs have slimmed down and the audio systems flanking them have to carry a trimmer profile too.
I'm living proof. My secondary “theater system” is a plasma TV in the basement. I wouldn't mind thin tower speakers to go along with it, but there's no way I'm going to run speaker wire across the floor for surround speakers. If I want better sound than what's built into the TV, I need a neat, clever, compact solution.
Denon designed the S-301 speaker system for people like me. The S-301 stuffs surround circuitry, an AM/FM tuner and DVD player into a mid-size chassis. Two liter-size speakers flank the TV and a 9 ¼ x 14 ½ x 18-inch powered subwoofer—packed with amplifiers—completes the package. There are no rear speakers--that's the clever part. The S-301 packs Dolby Virtual Speaker technology which simulates center and surround channels from a pair of left and right front speakers.
*Edit 12/27/05 - In the conclusion the writer mentions that the S-101 does not support the Apple iPod. This is incorrect as it does.We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Please visit the conclusion for a list of differences between the two units.
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by lion on January 23, 2006:
“do you now if i can use this system also in holland ( europe )? can i use the dvd (code) and the radio ? the price in the usa is much cheaper than in holland ! we pay about 1550 euro (1800 dollar ) ” More...
by John on December 30, 2005:
“I was undecided between the Bose 3-2-1 GS and this system until I realized the Denon system had a USB port for playing MP3s or WMAs from ANY mass storage device. Whoa! The sound is great! Surround? You betcha! Watched "War of the Worlds" last week...and...” More...
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