DALI walks through how its hi-fi engineering is being mapped into custom-install and home cinema, with a clear focus on controlled directivity, low distortion, and repeatable in-wall/in-ceiling deployments. The booth tour ties the “from transducer to cabinet” philosophy to CI realities like back boxes, back cans, grille options, and predictable acoustic loading, so integrators can spec systems that behave the same way once they’re sealed into a wall. https://www.dali-speakers.com/
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At the top end, the flagship KORE is used as the technology reference point, especially its Balanced Drive architecture: a dual voice-coil motor in push-pull intended to linearize excursion and keep force symmetry across the operating range. In practice, it’s about lowering odd-order distortion and compression when the woofer/midrange is working hard, while maintaining consistent control over the diaphragm and motor behavior during transient peaks.
Home cinema gets a dedicated spotlight with the SUB V-16 F, positioned as DALI’s largest and most powerful cinema sub to date, now carrying THX Certified Dominus for very large residential rooms (the discussion references up to 184 m³). Key engineering notes include a 16-inch in-house driver, DSP-controlled Class-D amplification (the conversation cites 2,500 W), a ported alignment tuned around 18 Hz, 70 mm peak-to-peak excursion, and output capability referenced at 120 dB, with emphasis on low distortion and “speed” to integrate cleanly at typical crossover points.
The tour also touches outdoor and whole-home distribution: GARDIAN On-Wall 6 is rated IP67 for dust/water ingress, with mounting that supports horizontal/vertical orientation plus pan/tilt aiming, making it a practical zone speaker for terraces, pool areas, or humid spaces. Filmed at ISE 2026 in Barcelona, the segment keeps the conversation grounded in install constraints—coverage, weather sealing, and tonal matching with indoor zones—rather than pure lifestyle pitch.
For the more accessible end of the line, SONIK is introduced as the Oberon replacement, scaling down ideas from the flagship playbook: Clarity Cone diaphragm control for breakup behavior, low-loss driver design, and (on models like SONIK 7) a hybrid tweeter module combining a soft dome with a planar magnetostatic element to extend HF detail while keeping dispersion manageable. The CI range wraps around it with PHANTOM in-wall/in-ceiling families (including higher-end Phantom S and cinema-leaning Phantom M), plus a new PHANTOM CI AMP-4125 DSP concept: a compact 4-channel 125 W DSP amp aimed at multiroom and distributed audio layouts, including flexible routing such as stereo pairs plus a sub feed too.
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