comparable with that of amplifiers. Since the Linear Drive System and SMC was introduced, DALI has been able to trickle down to the technology to its more economical product lines, saving on materials while still retaining most of the advantages. Hybrid tweeter module Another DALI signature technology is their hybrid tweeter modules, combining a dome tweeter for a detailed treble reproduction and seamless midrange integration with a planar ribbon for constant dispersion and extra weightlessness in the extreme top. The hybrid tweeter configuration is today used in most of DALI’s bigger loudspeakers. For the compact models a singular dome tweeter is used instead. Aiming for a small loudspeaker makes little sense if you end up making it half a metre high in order to fit in all the units.
reproduction and very little sales is not the interesting challenge. Making an achievable loudspeaker with a prefect reproduction is much more intriguing: “We constantly strive to become better, and the cost-no-object statement models are not nearly as interesting. If you really want to demonstrate what you can do, show me your most inexpensive product and how much it can do for money. To make that great you have to be really ingenious!”
Into the music Loudspeakers are for reproduction of sound, music, any music. But sometimes you want to get a little closer to the beat, to be part of the process. For the last two years DALI has been working symbiotically together with multiple platinum-winning musician Lukas Graham. The cooperation means that Lukas Graham and his band are sometimes drawn upon when launching new products. In return new audiences and scenes around the world are opened up for the Danish ensemble.
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Cost-not-object not a challenge The A i DALI stands for ‘Audiophile’ but Lars Worre does not see his company as a highend company per se. The EPICON speakers are expensive, but far from the astronomical prices of the most esoteric high-end companies. Even though there is an unceasing challenge in improving things further, he has no ambitions of participating in the race for the most expensive speaker in the world. According to Lars Worre making a 200,000 dollars set of loudspeakers with a perfect
2002 Launch of DALI EUPHONIA, introducing two important DALI technologies, present in all later ranges: Wood fibre woofer cone and the hybrid tweeter module.
2007 DALI’s twin factory in Ningbo, China is set up. Staff of 150 employees builds the entry level series from DALI’s range and produce parts for the Danish production.
Lukas Graham at DALI distributor event at restaurant Kadau in Copenhagen 2014.
2010 DALI begins in-house manufacturing of speaker units. The first model to use the units is DALI MENTOR 6 SE.
2011 Introduction of DALI FAZON F5, a genuine high-end hi-fi loudspeaker, build in aluminium and targeting a more design oriented audience.
2012 The research for the high-end EPICON series leads to the invention of a new magnetic design technology, using Soft Magnetic Composite with ultra-linear electro-magnetic properties.
2015 The OPTICON series utilising SMC-technology from the more expensive EPICON and RUBICON lines is launched at a musical event in London, being webcast to a worldwide audience.
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