To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the wireless audio platform HEOS, Denon, Marantz, and Classé have unveiled a bold new chapter for HEOS with a refreshed identity, redesigned app experience, and the launch of expanded platform capabilities. Today, HEOS powers more than 50 premium audio products worldwide and the new direction will evolve via a new “Powered by HEOS”, branding strategy, redefining whole-home sound capabilities for the modern listener.
HEOS—short for Home Entertainment Operating System—was originally developed by an Australian engineering team at Avega Systems back to 2005. Denon acquired the team in 2014 and launched products with HEOS technology in 2016 rooted with a simple question; “What if you could fill your home with incredible sound without wires but within existing high-end audio brands, with established brand loyalty and a reputation for audio excellence? In many ways, HEOS became the audiophile solution as an alternative to the single stand-alone powered speakers that were gaining popularity as a plug and play whole-home sound audio solution at the time.
Over the past decade HEOS has remains is a leading wireless audio platform developed to deliver seamless, high-quality sound throughout the home without the need for complicated wiring or setups. While HEOS remains the main streaming platform for Denon, Marantz and Classé, HEOS is now owned by Harman International, potentially meaning the HEOS ecosystem could be further expanded to other brands in the future.
At its core, HEOS enables users to stream music, podcasts, or other audio content to multiple rooms and devices, such as AV receivers, sound bars, and wireless speakers from a single app.
What started as an idea to simplify whole home audio streaming, today is one of the most trusted wireless audio platforms in the world. More than five million products are “Powered by HEOS” including AV receivers, sound bars and wireless speakers, HEOS connects them all into one seamless ecosystem across multiple brands.
In December 2023, HEOS 3.0 was launched, a completely redesigned experience built on a new architecture delivering faster performance, greater stability and a music-first interface. The HEOS standard continued to evolve from 2023-24 with home page customizations, centralized searches, room and speaker grouping presets and today supports music services, including high-resolution platforms like Qobuz, along with Roon Ready certification.
In 2025, a new major HEOS app update bring listeners even closer to the music with a refocus away from what was once called “HEOS Built-in” to now “Powered by HEOS”—a name that emphasizes that HEOS is not a closed ecosystem. It is the wireless engine inside products by brands people already know and trust. In a crowded category, “Powered by HEOS” brings together more than fifty Denon, Marantz, and Classé products under the “Powered by HEOS” banner, that also means a listener’s system can be as small as a single speaker, or as expansive as 64 products in 32 zones all working together.
Part of the new update includes a new logo, inspired by radio waves, that reflects the freedom of wireless sound and the effortless flow of music throughout the home. Its directional form captures how HEOS connects everything from streaming services, personal libraries, and high-performance systems into one unified listening experience. The refreshed app icon reinforces this mission: one powerful platform, flexible and intuitive, designed to deliver your music your way
HEOS is a streaming platform designed for audiophiles that supports high-resolution audio formats and integrates seamlessly with premium AV receivers from Denon and Marantz. Unlike many wireless platforms, HEOS offers flexible connectivity including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB, and aux inputs, giving the user more control over how and where they stream. HEOS blends high-fidelity sound with smart convenience and supports major streaming services and voice assistants like Alexa and AirPlay 2. For the past decade HEOS has delivered on fundamental principles such as high-end performance, versatility and ease of use while maintain the sophistication and audiophile credentials from legacy brands such as Maratz, Denon and Classé.