DALI OBERON 1 LOUDSPEAKERS
This new Dali Oberon 1 has the distinction of being the lowest-priced Dali loudspeaker ever to use Dali’s patented soft magnetic compound (SMC) technology, which the company claims ‘drastically reduces non-linear magnetic distortion’. It also has the distinction of being one of the smallest speakers Dali has ever made, this Danish company being rather better known for its larger bookshelf models and its much larger floor-standing models.
THE EQUIPMENT
The Dali Oberon 1 is two-way bass reflex design with a 29mm soft-dome h.f. driver, a 133mm bass/midrange driver and a rear-firing bass reflex port.
The h.f. driver (which is used in all five models in the Oberon range, about which more later) was reportedly designed and engineered specifically for this new range. It’s a 29mm ultra-lightweight soft-dome tweeter, made by Dali itself in its factory in Ningbo, China (also about which more later). The company claims that the fabric it uses to form the dome weighs less than half that of most fabric dome tweeters, with a weight of 0.06mg per square millimetre. The efficiency of the tweeter is enhanced through the fitting of a 220 gauss magnet and the use of ferro-fluid in the voice-coil gap. The slightly-larger-than-usual diameter of
