"Five Stars" – What Hi-Fi? Magazine
"Five Stars" – Germany's Stereo Magazine
"Jaw-Dropping" Sound from an Ultra-Compact Speaker
The DALI SPEKTOR 1 brings the DALI sound design principals to a new price bracket, opening the possibility for many new music and movies lovers to experience the seduction of true high end audio. Getting this much performance from a speaker in this price range not only took all of DALI's experience and know how, but also hours and hours spent in the listening room, improving the driver and crossover designs to create the perfect audio performance.
"Rarely have we come across compact budget speakers with such a broad range of talents," raves What Hi-Fi? magazine, which awarded the SPEKTOR 1 with its highest rating of Five Stars. "If you’re looking for really small budget speakers, buy these. We can’t be much clearer than that."
"Love at first sound," concludes Germany's Stereo magazine, which also gave the SPEKTOR 1 Five Stars. "Your jaw will drop when you hear what these Danish speakers offer at a discount price. We can still not believe it."
Authentic, Honest Sound
The DALI SPEKTOR 1, like all DALI loudspeakers, has been designed in accordance with the company's fundamental acoustic and electro-acoustic principles, and a strong belief that clarity and an authentic, honest sound reproduction will get you even closer to the full impact of a live music experience.
The SPEKTOR 1 delivers nothing less than true top-end DALI sound despite its diminutive dimensions. Small, but perfectly formed, the SPEKTOR 1 is the ideal audio option for small spaces that demand big sound. It is equally impressive in a compact stereo set-up or working in a 5.1 surround system.
The ultra-compact SPEKTOR 1 - and its slightly larger sibling SPEKTOR 2 - are ideal for wall mounting, shelf, or stand installation in concert with any compact high-fidelity music system.
Superior Soft Dome Tweeter
SPEKTOR's soft dome tweeter offers best-in-class resolution with an extended frequency response, wide dispersion and low coloration. A clear heritage from DALI's high-end series, the tweeter is based on an ultra-lightweight weaved fabric, which weighs less than half of the market standard (0.056 mg/mm2).
The beauty of the soft dome tweeter is its impressive ability to play even the lowest parts of the high frequency range without any break-ups. This is crucial when handling the all-important hand-over from the woofer to the tweeter. Not having to push either the woofer or tweeter beyond what they do best results in a seamless transition and preservation of every detail in the mid-range frequencies. The geometry of the tweeter front plate near the dome has been optimized to create the perfect working conditions for the soft dome. The aim was to combine an extended frequency response with wide dispersion and low coloration.
Responsive Wood Fiber Cones
SPEKTOR's low-loss drivers uses a mix of low-mass paper cones with wood fiber reinforcement. The embedded wood fiber gives the surface an uneven structure, which dramatically minimizes the resonance of the surface. This creates the best possible reproduction of every detail in the audio signal.
The wood fiber cone structure is not only a DALI trademark, but a well proven technology. By crafting the cone membrane from a mix of fine-grained paper and wood fiber pulp, the cones become very rigid, very lightweight. Combining the well-behaving wood fiber cone with a low-loss surround and spider suspension results in the reproduction of even the smallest micro-detail in the signal – unfiltered and with high accuracy.
Low Signal Loss
By using only DALI designed and custom-built drivers, the need for frequency correction in the crossover is eliminated. This enables DALI to design an exact crossover, which together with carefully selected quality components ensures that the signal loss is close to zero.
Amplifier-Friendly Design
The amplifier-friendly design makes the SPEKTOR series a perfect fit for almost any of the amplifiers in its price category. Whether paired with a compact hi-fi, a stereo amplifier, or a surround receiver, SPEKTOR will bring out the best in your components, showing you just how good music and movies can sound.
DALI Wide Dispersion
Every speaker in the SPEKTOR series is built for wide dispersion, designed to fill the room with first-class audio and create the biggest possible sweet spot for your listening pleasure.
DALI makes it easy to integrate your loudspeakers into any room. Both the driver materials and geometry applied in the SPEKTOR series have been selected to achieve a wide dispersion pattern. You will experience a well-integrated sound, even when listening significantly off-axis. And, as you are often not seated directly in front of the loudspeaker when listening to music, this is important.
An added benefit is hugely reduced harmonic distortion and diffractions causing frequency distortion, as these will always be stronger in an on axis response. That is also the reason why all DALI speakers are not designed for toeing-in.
