DALI OBERON 9 Floor-Standing Loudspeaker Preview

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DALI has been designing and manufacturing loudspeakers for over 35 years.

During that time, they have built a reputation for creating speakers that are considered some of the best that money can buy. Their EPICON series features a variety of proprietary loudspeaker innovations such as SMC technology which has as its design goal lower third harmonic distortion and low loss surrounds. Even though the EPICON series is not inexpensive, they are known to be competitive with speakers which sell for a lot more money.

In the OBERON series, DALI has brought a lot of technology from the EPICON line into a series of very affordable speakers. The OBERON 9 towers stand at the top of the OBERON lineup and present a formidable challenge to the world of high-value speakers. They stand almost four feet tall and use solid engineering to bring to the audio world the type of dynamics that normally require a much greater investment than the $2,500 per pair DALI charges for these speakers.

Look for a full review of these talented reproducers of music in the near future. I’ll be throwing a lot at these speakers, including a full range response curve and measured distortion from 20 to 20,000Hz at a high level of SPL.

See the complete review for the DALI OBERON 9 Floor-Standing Loudspeaker.

Craig Chase

Craig Chase intends to become the rebel of our team. (We welcome one more rebel to the SECRETS Team!) He got his start in audio while still in high school in small town Pennsylvania, and took his love of audio to Penn State, where he was a campus rep for Electrovoice, Advent, Altec-Lansing, Pioneer and Technics. This mini career with audio set him on the path to making audio a lifetime passion. After graduating Penn State at the low point of the 1982 recession, a terrible time to start a career, he took a job selling cars at a Ford-Datsun-AMC-Jeep dealership in Erie, Pa. What started off as a job until something better came along turned into a tremendous career, and now Craig has a thriving financial services company and owns a Chrysler-Jeep-Ram-Dodge dealership in the university town of Edinboro, Pa. These companies have allowed Craig to build two things he loves: a 20-year-long stint writing reviews for audio equipment on several forums and helping people and animals in need. Few things are more rewarding to Craig and his family than rescuing a dog, cat or even a horse. The Chase family currently has 11 rescue animals and has helped place hundreds of others. Craig also works with several shelters in northwest Pennsylvania that provide direct aid to people in crisis. It is this love of helping others that has also made his tenure in audio so enjoyable. From the time he installed his first system in a friend's dorm room as a college rep to more recent experiences in the forum world helping someone assemble a system, Craig knows the sense of accomplishment of letting someone in on our SECRET: a music system can make life more enjoyable.