Denon HEOS Drive HS2

Multi-room power amplifier

Whole-home, multi-zone audio in a single chassis. Designed by Custom Integration experts for installation professionals, the HEOS Drive HS2 is a unique 4-zone, whole-home audio distribution system with 8 channels of Class D amplification, all housed in a 2RU chassis, and supports Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital+ decoding with stereo downmixing.

With 60 watts per channel across all 8 channels (20Hz~20kHz, .05% THD, 8 ohms, all channels driven), 1 or 2 stereo channels can be bridged to form one powerful (130 W) channel, and the HEOS Drive HS2 is capable of handling low-impedance speakers (4 ohm). Each zone offers a stereo pair of line outputs, and each zone can be set to either stereo or mixed mono output. Matrix-based source switching provides 2 optical digital inputs, 2 coaxial digital inputs and 4 analog stereo inputs, any of which can be assigned to any zone, and each zone has a USB connection to which an external USB drive can be connected.

The HEOS Drive HS2 can handle almost any combination of speaker systems, thanks to a built-in signal processor with high and low-pass filters so that any output can be set for full band, subwoofer use, or small speakers with adjustable frequencies. The speaker outputs have 4-way terminals that are compatible with banana plugs, and the amplifier has 4 12V trigger outputs. The casing features a quiet fan to ensure proper operation.