DALI (Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industries) is a leading manufacturer of high-end loudspeakers. Founded in 1983 by Peter Lyngdorf,[1] DALI has a distinguished record of producing exceptional, award-winning high-end loudspeaker over the full range, from the entry level to statement level. With more than one million satisfied DALI owners around the world, they bring music and film to life in the home, giving proud DALI owners a more honest, nuanced and richly detailed listening experience.
DALI speakers are characterized by sublime quality and an engaging sound experience across a wide area in any room. This consistent quality stems from DALI’s commitment to outstanding performance and natural sound, delivered at competitive prices. They have developed and patented several key technologies in pursuit of this commitment. They also trickle these developments from their statement level speakers down to their more affordable models, ensuring excellent sound throughout the product line.
A loudspeaker's ability to deliver high quality sound depends on its design and construction, and how it interacts with its two interfaces, the amplifier and the room. This is at the core of the DALI Sound Design Principles, which drive every speaker that carries the DALI logo.
Key Technologies
Key to DALI's superiority is exclusive DALI driver units designed from scratch by their engineers, in close collaboration with experts from the world's leading driver manufacturers. Using these unique driver technologies they design and build speaker systems that enable listeners to hear their favorite music exactly as the artists intended.
Hybrid Tweeter Module
One of DALI’s signature technologies is its hybrid tweeter module, which combines an ultra-lightweight soft dome tweeter with a ribbon tweeter in a single module. The combination takes advantage of the low resonant frequency, high power handling and exceptional headroom of the soft dome with the superb dispersion of the ribbon at higher frequencies. The result is extremely smooth, detailed treble sound, with wide horizontal dispersion reaching well beyond the audible range, without any sign of excessive brightness or unpleasant and resonant peaks.
Wood Fibre Cones
DALI employs distinctive wood fibre cones in its bass and midrange drivers. The randomly oriented fibres stiffen the light cone and provide it with non-uniform breakup characteristics to ensure pistonic motion and low distortion. This emphasis is low distortion has also led to the design of very low loss rubber surrounds which reduce non-linear mechanical losses, another source of distortion in drivers.
SMC
DALI’s focus on driver distortion extends to the magnet system of it divers, with the employment of its patented soft magnetic compound (SMC). Losses and variations in a driver’s magnetic field lead to audible distortions in the sound it produces. SMC employs fine coated magnetic granules to dramatically reduce these negative effects, allowing the drivers to produce lower distortion, higher resolution sound.
Product Range
The Kore is DALI's statement-level flagship. It embodies all that DALI has learnt over its decades of loudspeaker design and manufacture. A number of new technologies were developed for this no-compromise design, including:
- Balanced Drive SMC™
- SMC Gen-2
- EVO-K Hybrid Tweeter
- SMC Gen-2 core inductors
The Epicon Series signals exclusivity and simplicity. Built on knowledge from almost 30 years of research, development, and manufacturing of speakers, and on results from experimenting with both new and known technology, these speakers are for the most demanding of music and movie enthusiasts.
The Rubicon Series builds on the innovative SMC based “Linear Drive System” driver technology of the Epicon Series to bring a room-filling audio experience to the broadest audience. With a simple, sleek, stylish design, Rubicon elegantly brings the feeling of a live performance to your home.
The Rubicon C Series is the active counterpart to the Rubicon Series - sharing the same drivers and cabinet construction, while inheriting the amplifier technology from Callisto, and the wireless audio transmission from the DALI Sound Hub or DALI Sound Hub Compact.
The Callisto C Series, comprising the Callisto 6 C and the Callisto 2 C, combine the convenience of wireless speaker systems with DALI's high quality sound, all in a fresh, elegant design.
The Menuet Series features two real DALI gems. The Menuet is a compact speaker whose powerful, refined sound belies its size. The Menuet SE, finished in a luxurious Wild Walnut veneer, enhances the already excellent Menuet with an upgraded crossover, a fibreglass voice coil former, and the Epicon binding posts. Whether wall-mounted, or placed on a shelf or speaker stand, the DALI Menuet speakers delight the ear and the eye.
The Opticon Mk2 Series delivers outstanding sound, using DALI's compound tweeter modules and SMC drivers, in a strikingly styled, affordable range of loudspeakers.
The Oberon Series brings DALI's patented SMC technology to entry-level loudspeakers.
The Oberon C series comprises the Oberon 7 C, Oberon 1 C, Oberon On-Wall C and Oberon Vokal C speakers, active versions of the corresponding Oberon Series speakers. The Oberon C speakers can be paired with either the DALI Sound Hub or the DALI Sound Hub Compact for their wireless connectivity.
The Spektor Series is DALI's entry level range, bring refined, dynamic sound to very inexpensive loudspeakers.
The DALI Katch Series comprises the Katch G2 portable Bluetooth speakers and the Katch One soundbar, both of which provide amazing, class-leading sound quality. The Katch G2 combines 24 hour battery life, support for aptX, 25W of amplifier power per channel, and a separate woofer, tweeter and passive radiator on each of the elegant extruded aluminium cabinet. With its 6 active drivers and 4 passive bass radiators, the Katch One delivers great sound, whether paired with your TV or used on its own.
The Phantom Series provides a range of loudspeakers optimised for in-wall, on-wall and in-ceiling installations.
The DALI iO headphones are the best sounding Bluetooth headphones available. The series consists of the iO-4, and the iO-6, which provides active noise cancellation. Both models provide aptX and aptX HD for the best audio quality Bluetooth can provide. They can give you up to 60 hours of playing time.
[1] Peter Lyngdorf is a leading entrepreneur in the audio industry. Among the companies he has founded or been involved with are Snell Acoustics, NAD Electronics, TacT Audio, Lyngdorf Audio, Steinway Lyngdorf, Gryphon Audio, HifiKlubben, and Purifi Audio.