Denmark audio firm, DALI has launched a second center-channel speaker to its Oberon sequence of house theatre audio system.
It’s additionally revealed it’s high-end IO-12 wi-fi headphones, unveiled in October, are actually transport.
The brand new speaker, the Grand Vokal heart speaker, with a 1.1-inch soft-dome tweeter, and a pair of 7-inc wood-fiber-cone woofers, which can be located inside 17-inch broad ported cupboard.
It stands at 6.3-inches tall, and 11.6-inches deep, and has rubber ft, with the same frequency response to the unique Vokal, nevertheless, with a better really useful energy vary that may prolong to 200W. The unique might prolong to 150W.
The tweeter was designed utilizing a woven materials that’s “half the burden of most fashions available on the market,” claimed DALI.
The Comfortable Magnetic Compound (SMC) within the woofer magnet’s iron pole-piece was made to “vastly scale back mechanical distortion for lifelike vocals and precision midrange replica.”
Based mostly on the present tower audio system Oberon 5, Oberon 7, and Oberon 9, the Grand Vokal is timbre-matched to make use of with the Oberon 1 and Oberon 3 bookshelf audio system, in addition to the Oberon On Wall encompass speaker.
In accordance with DALI, the Grand Vokal can mix with the Oberon 7 and Oberon 9, and be positioned above or beneath the TV display screen.
The corporate has steered inserting it a minimum of 2 inches from the rear wall, and not more than 20 inches away for ideally suited efficiency.
Key specs embody a sensitivity of 91dB, a max SPL of 111dB, nominal independence of 4ohms, and a low frequency restrict of 49Hz. There’s additionally a crossover frequency of two,500Hz.
The Grand Vokal Full-Vary Speaker is obtainable in black ash and darkish walnut vinyl finishes, and is retailing for $1,299.00 AUD from Area Hello-Fi.
Transferring onto the brand new high-end IO-12 headphones. They had been designed to encompass the ears, and have ANC, aptX Adaptive Bluetooth connectivity, together with outsized 2-inch drivers which can be powered by “two amplifiers working collectively to lowered distortion and assist battery life.”
They’re additionally claimed to be the primary headphones incorporating DALI’s patented SMC magnet system.
There’s a light-weight leather-based headband, and outsized leather-encased reminiscence foam earpads, that are claimed to offer a snug expertise, in addition to a decent acoustic seal.
Battery life lasts as much as 35 hours on one single cost, they usually assist voice management and supply an “off-mode” filter for passive listening.
The headphones embody USB-C in addition to 3.5mm minijack connections for wired listening.
