Low-Resonance Cabinet
A loudspeaker cabinet surface can be up to forty times larger than the surface area of the drivers. If not properly controlled, a cabinet can generate unwanted vibrations that colour and mask the sound you hear. To ensure this doesn't happen, every DALI speaker cabinet supplies the optimum volume for each driver to work in, while providing the ideal acoustic/mechanical platform for the drivers.
The motion of a driver affects both the outside structure of the cabinet and the airflow within it, causing resonance and standing waves. Designing the cabinet to reduce the effects of the driver, outside as well as inside the cabinet, is a fine balancing act. With insufficient damping and stiffening, resonance and standing waves will make the cabinet 'sing' with the audio signal, colouring the overall presentation. With too much damping and internal bracing, the airflow inside the cabinet will be hampered. The audio signal will be flat and slow, while the sound reproduction will fail to deliver the much-wanted live dynamics.
Adding too much bracing and stiffening also risks raising the resonance into the midrange frequencies, where it becomes significantly more audible to the human ear. Acknowledging that even the perfect balance will still lead to some residual resonance, the structure of the cabinet must ensure the resonance frequency stays in the low 'Q'-value frequency range, so the audio reproduction remains less coloured, more musical and as responsive as possible.
The Eight DALI Sound Philosophies
Amplifier Optimised
The interplay between amplifier and speaker is an essential part of improving the quality of sound from the amplifier, which we achieve by creating a stable, linear environment for the amplifier when driving the loudspeaker load.
Clarity
Delivering a clear audio signal is a vital part of recreating an enjoyable listening experience. We do this by minimising loss in the information and ensuring smooth and seamless reproduction in both the time and frequency domain.
Holographic Sound Imaging
By using only DALI-designed, custom-built drivers with carefully matched crossovers that minimise the need for frequency correction, we create loudspeakers with near-zero signal loss.
Individually Crafted
By striving for the very best in industrial manufacturing and individual craftsmanship, we ensure that every loudspeaker is of the same high quality.
Low Loss
With extremely low mechanical loss, we preserve even the most delicate acoustic details, also at very low listening levels. This is the best way to recreate the authenticity and liveliness of the original recording… just how the artist intended it.
Low-Resonance Cabinet
Every DALI speaker cabinet supplies the optimum volume for each driver to work in, while providing just the right amount of acoustic/mechanical platform for the drivers.
Time Coherence
Ensuring perfect teamwork between the drivers in a loudspeaker is the key to delivering a realistic, transient response and three-dimensional sound image.
Wide Dispersion
The enjoyment of music and movies is paramount to DALI. That’s why we design our loudspeakers to give you the best possible experience, wherever you are in the room.