DALI Oberon 5 Floorstanding Speakers (Pair)
DALI Oberon 5 Compact Floorstanding Speakers
The rounded edges and rustic fabric of these NEW DALI front grilles add a lighter and more contemporary visual look to the OBERON series. This look is enhanced by the elegantly shaped aluminum base mounted on the two floor-standing models
The iron pole piece of the OBERON woofer magnet is crowned by a patented SMC disk - minimizing the negative effects of the iron. The use of the SMC disk greatly reduces mechanical distortion, which lowers third order distortion. This allows for a longer listening pleasure, a relaxed midrange and a surprising amount of detail for its price class.
The OBERON woofer features a wood fibre cone with a blend of fine grain paper pulp, reinforced with wood fibres, which creates a stiff, light-weight and well-behaving structure. In combination with a low-loss surround and spider suspension, this cone reproduces the micro details in the signal - unfiltered and with high accuracy.
The driver materials, crossover design and geometry applied in the OBERON series has been selected to achieve a wide dispersion pattern. This ensures a well-integrated sound, even when listening at a significant off-axis angle. An added benefit is seriously reduced harmonic distortion and diffractions causing frequency distortion. This is why all DALI speakers are not designed to be toed-in.
Very nice balanced speaker. Lots of detail throughout the range. I listen to FM broadcast most of day, rock and classical. I am quite happy with these speakers.
I'v had the speakers for 10 days and they keep getting better. The detail, transparency, and smooth midrange all keep opening up more. They are short for floor standing speakers, so I put each on a 3" blocks of concrete which brought the tweeter up to ear level. Also, I have them toed in a little despite DALI recommendation to have them straight. Because they are close to the side walls the toeing in improved the imaging. I highly recommend DALI. These are better than other speakers I've had over the last 3 decades; KEF, Paradigm, PSB, Polk, Energy, Totem. These DALIs really thrive on a steady diet of well recorded folk rock, jazz, chamber music, and electronica.