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Editors' Choice Award 2024 – The Absolute Sound Magazine
Editors' Choice Award 2022 – The Absolute Sound Magazine
Best Floorstanding Speaker 2019 - What Hi-fi?
Best Speaker Package Award 2019 - What Hi-fi?
Best Product Award 2019-2020 – EISA
"These Superb Floorstanders Are Right Up There with the Best"
The DALI OBERON 5 is the ultimate performer. A compact and elegant floor-standing speaker, housing 2 x 5.25” wood fibre SMC based woofers and the series’ wide bandwidth 29mm (1.14") ultra-lightweight soft dome tweeter. This slim floorstander will surprise with its ability to deliver a deep firm bass. Together with the clear and well-defined midrange and the airy high frequencies, this speaker is at home with any music or movie sound track.
Award-Winning Performance
The Absolute Sound magazine honored the DALI OBERON 5 with an Editors' Choice Award for 2024 and 2022.
"Stretching the sonic limits in the lower-cost small floorstander category, Dali’s three-driver, two-way, bass-reflex Oberon 5 strikes a satisfyingly warmer tonal balance, offering good extension, timing, and well-focused detail. Output is robust with a midrange that provides a wealth of tone color. High frequencies are smooth, although a bit dry, and while the Dali won’t quite venture into the bottom octave there is enough oomph in the midbass to imply some grandeur."
"It’s an economical yet formidable speaker that permits users to walk the fine line of everyday practicality, while still allowing their audiophile hearts to lead the way."
"Brilliantly Musical"
"These superb floorstanders are right up there with the best," reports a Five Star review in What Hi-fi?, April 28, 2020, which gave the Oberon 5 a Best Floorstanding Speaker Award. "The Dali Oberon 5s are brilliantly musical and will fit into most rooms with ease."
Reporting on a multichannel package which includes the OBERON 5, What Hi-fi?, December 3, 2018 raves, "They produce a quality of sound only the very best at this level can get close to… If you’re looking for a small, unfussy pair of speakers we can’t think of anything more capable at this kind of price than these Dalis. They really are a joy."
"Supersonic Superstar"
"The Oberon 5 is a small-ish supersonic superstar. Seriously, in a small to medium-sized room, you need something else?" reports David Abramson in Stereo Times, who terms them "the most musically satisfying speakers I’ve ever owned. I didn’t say they were ‘the best’ or the bass-iest, or ‘particularly incredible at...,” I said the most musically satisfying."
In his September 29, 2020 review for Lifewire, Jonno Hill raves, "The Dali Oberon 5 is, inch-for-inch, the best floor speaker I’ve had the pleasure of listening to. The Danish manufacturer has done an incredible job of pairing a beautiful design and impressive sound with a space-friendly package."
Sophisticated Drivers
With the launch of the DALI OBERON loudspeaker series, DALI picked the best elements from its current speakers and brought them together in a series that delivers on audio quality, looks and versatility.
You will find it easy to integrate the OBERON 5 into any room, as both the driver materials and geometry applied have been selected to achieve a wide dispersion pattern in the listening area. The same principles have been applied in the design of the crossover.
As result, you will experience a well-integrated sound, even when listening at a significant off-axis angle. This is important as you are rarely seated directly in front of your loudspeakers when listening to music. An added benefit is seriously reduced harmonic distortion and diffractions causing frequency distortion, as these will always be stronger in an on-axis response. This is also the reason why all DALI speakers are not designed to be toed-in.
"You Can Listen to Them for Hours"
"These Danish floor-standing speakers are small in size but still have a great sound," reports Róbert Polgár, perfectacoustic.co.uk. "In terms of sound, they have a spacious stage image, dynamics and corporeality. The speakers transmit any type of music superbly and faithfully, and you can listen to them for hours without hearing any flaws of the sound."
"This is a big recommendation on my side. These speakers sonically touched me and my heart and I think they will also inspire you to relax yourself and rediscover your favorite tunes all anew while you discover new ways that you missed having your inner universe with just you and music," observes Ducurguz, Hi-Fi Daydreaming, July 10, 2024.
Wood Fiber Cone
The OBERON woofer features a wood fiber cone with a blend of fine grain paper pulp, reinforced with wood fibres, which creates a stiff, light-weight and well-behaving structure. In combination with a low-loss surround and spider suspension, this cone reproduces the micro details in the signal - unfiltered and with high accuracy.
Patented SMC
The iron pole piece of the OBERON woofer magnet is crowned by a patented SMC disk - minimizing the negative effects of the iron. The use of the SMC disk greatly reduces mechanical distortion, which lowers third order distortion. This allows for a longer listening pleasure, a relaxed midrange and a surprising amount of detail for its price class.
Contemporary Design
The rounded edges and rustic fabric of these new DALI front grilles add a lighter and more contemporary visual look to the OBERON series. This look is enhanced by the elegantly shaped aluminum base mounted on the two floor-standing models.
Easy to Position
The driver materials, crossover design and geometry applied in the OBERON series has been selected to achieve a wide dispersion pattern. This ensures a well-integrated sound, even when listening at a significant off-axis angle. An added benefit is seriously reduced harmonic distortion and diffractions causing frequency distortion. This is why all DALI speakers are not designed to be toed-in.
"A Fantastic Option"
"These floor-standing speakers are ideal for medium to large rooms, with a wide dispersion pattern that makes positioning effortless and intuitive, while their small size and elegant design make them perfect for any environment," notes Marco Sebastiano Alessi, higherhz.com, September 11, 2023.
"The midrange price of the Oberon 5 puts it in competition with many good-quality floor-standers, however, if you’re looking for an enjoyable and enveloping listening experience, the Oberon 5 is a fantastic option."
