Designed for giant rooms, the brand new Grand Vokal heart speaker ($1,000) is the next energy dealing with model of the prevailing Vokal that mates the identical 1.1-inch soft-dome tweeter with a pair of 7-inch wood-fiber-cone woofers (as an alternative of 5.25-inchers) in a ported cupboard 17 inches large, 6.3 inches tall, and 11.6 inches deep with rubber toes. The Grand Vokal maintains the same frequency response however has the next really useful energy vary that extends to 200 watts as an alternative of topping out at 150 watts.
The outsized tweeter is fabricated from a woven materials that’s “half the burden of most fashions in the marketplace,” based on DALI, and the Smooth Magnetic Compound (SMC) used within the woofer magnet’s iron pole-piece is designed to “tremendously scale back mechanical distortion for lifelike vocals and precision midrange replica.”
The Grand Vokal was designed with the model’s Oberon 5, Oberon 7 and Oberon 9 tower audio system in thoughts and is timbre-matched to be used with the Oberon 1 and Oberon 3 bookshelf fashions and Oberon On Wall encompass speaker. Krestian Pedersen, head of product administration, famous that the Grand Vokal blends seamlessly with the Oberon 7 or Oberon 9 and could be positioned above or beneath the TV display screen.
For ideally suited efficiency, DALI recommends putting the speaker a minimum of 2 inches from the rear wall and not more than 20 inches away. Key producer specs embrace a sensitivity of 91 dB (2.83V/1 m), most SPL of 111 dB, nominal impedance of 4 ohms, and a low-frequency restrict of 49 Hz (±3 dB) with a crossover frequency of two,500 Hz.
The Grand Vokal is on the market in a black or darkish walnut vinyl end. For extra data, go to dali-speakers.com.
New Headphones Boast Proprietary Magnet
DALI’s new IO-12 headphones ($1,300) are a circumaural design that fully surrounds the ears and have energetic noise cancellation, aptX Adaptive Bluetooth connectivity, and outsized 2-inch drivers powered by “two amplifiers working collectively to diminished distortion and assist battery life.” They’re additionally hailed as the primary headphones to include the patented SMC magnet system utilized in DALI’s high floorstanding audio system.
The usage of a light-weight leather-based headband and outsized, leather-encased memory-foam earpads is claimed to make sure a cushty listening expertise and supply a good acoustic seal over a variety of head shapes.
Battery life is rated for as much as 35 hours on a single cost battery life and the headphones help voice management and supply an “off-mode” filter for passive listening. The IO-12 headphones embrace each USB-C and three.5mm minijack connections for wired listening.
Quick for Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industries, the DALI model is on the market worldwide and distributed in North America by Lenbrook Americas.
