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▪ Dali Oberon 5 5.1 system
£1699
It takes a special product for us to create a new What Hi-Fi? Award, and the Dali Oberon 5 5.1 surround speaker package is certainly one such product. It plugs a gap between £1500 and £2000, comfortably beating every rival around it for clarity, detail and expression.
It comprises the twice Award-winning Oberon 5 floorstanding speakers as right and left channels, sandwiching an Oberon Vokal centre, and a pair of five-star Oberon 1 standmounters delivering surround effects. Providing the low end is a 170W Sub E9-F.
The Oberon 5s have a fairly large and lightweight 29mm soft-dome tweeter, which can dip into lower frequencies to help integrate with the two 13cm mid/bass drivers, made from Dali’s wood fibre/fine grain paper pulp cone material.
It’s a similar story for the shoebox-sized Oberon 1 surround speakers, though there’s just one midrange driver here. Dali has made them as versatile as possible by adding a wall-mounting attachment. The Vokal has the same selection of drivers, with the tweeter
